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Sep 23

Make word-back and word-forwards navigation work again on PhpStorm's Terminal

Fri, 09/23/2016 - 22:12 — peter

The Problem

JetBrains' IDEs are awesome! The more you get into them, the more you rely on them. One problem, however, has pestered me for a while: the built-in terminal doesn't have support for the word-back and work-forwards shortcut. You know, when you hold alt + left-arrow or alt + right-arrow? Most of the time I use a Mac, so in the past I used a pretty nifty program called "Keyboard Maestro" to create a shortcut that worked only on PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs that would do that for me, but as well as that worked, I always wondered if there was a nicer way. Turns out there is!

Sep 22

Create Diagrams Inside PhpStorm with PlantUML

Thu, 09/22/2016 - 20:35 — peter

Diagramming in PhpStorm (or any other JetBrains IDE)

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a well-constructed diagram is worth many pictures! And if it is super-simple to create these useful diagrams, why not, right? This quick post will guide you (and future me) on the steps necessary to get PlantUML - a diagramming library - setup in JetBrains PhpStorm.