I was kinda wondering how people do their programming, so I'm posting this thread

I do my programming in GVIM, with a terminal window next to it for file management/Git, I also occasionally just bring up Vim in the terminal window itself if I want to edit something quickly.
I have Vim set up to automatically do syntax highlighting and indentation for the language I'm writing in.


For web-related stuff, I have a local web server set up using nginx, MySQL and PHP-FPM.


But...how do you do it?

Is this only related to Web programming or to programming in general?

Any sort of programming.

Mostly the same as you.

I have 9 desktops, arranged in 3x3.

Top left: XChat
Top: Firefox
Top right: Music player or whatever
Center left: Play minecraft
Center: A Gedit window for programming
Center right: A terminal for git-ing, compiling, etc.

I usually don't use the bottom row unless I want to look at more files or do something else.

I can only program java and a bit of C#.
And this is the way I do it:

Firefox runs in the background just like Photoshop (When I need to draw something, like icons)
iTunes runs, because music keeps me refreshed while I program something.

And the most important is the compiler. I use Netbeans for Java and Visual C# for C#. That's all.