CodeIgniter, Laravel, Notepad++, and Sublime Text 2
I had started to learn about CodeIgniter and built a simple dynamic website locally and then was looking for more tutorials to progress my learning when I came across a blog by Shawn McCool saying CodeIgniter is dead and this caught my attention so I read it in full. Well beyond CodeIgniter being based on old PHP version 4 and having a lack of developers pushing it forward I was curious, what is a better alternative? It didn't take long to find out as he was asked already by a commenter and his reply was Laravel that he uses and some others. With my limited knowledge in these matters, I am going to follow the recommendations of experienced developers, of course! So I downloaded the files off GitHub and then looked for tutorials to get started learning how Laravel works. Coincidentally, the first one I stumbled upon was authored by Shawn McCool, and he does a great job breaking it down into layman's terms. Laravel is really cool and easier syntax to learn and write than CodeIgn