1. Nusphere, how long have you been working on your
PhpEd IDE solution?
Hi there, here is a little history :-)
PhpED was actually born before NuSphere came about. It was first written in Turkey by Ergin Soysal, who was eventually hired by NuSphere. The real breakthrough came in 2001, when Dmitri Dmitrienko met with NuSphere people in Frankfurt at PHP Conference. Dmitry's
Php debugger - dbg has always been part of PhpED,but with Dmitry taking over NuSphere's development, dbg became trully integrated in the IDE. NuSphere PhpEd development team has grown since that and so has the product - there is really nothing left of the original source code. Early version of PhpED was actually ideal base for future development because it fit very well in the 3 fundamental principles of NuSphere GUI tools development:
1. User is the king, virtually everything needs to be configurable in the IDE. Even the tabs can be docked and undocked in PhpED
2. User can't wait for IDE to perform any operation - IDE has to be built on Native, fast User Interface platform and tuned for performance
3. PHP IDE worth nothing if it doesn't have a great debugger. Debugger is by far the biggest contributor to productivity of the User.
We've been at doing it for more than 5 years now.