PyCharm - bought it.

Yes its great and all the free IDE options were lacking somehow so I bought a license. I like it for python and javascript. Lots of useful add-ins for MongoDB, Jade, etc etc.

PyCharm !

Jade template support in Pycharm

Here is a plugin that adds JADE template understanding to Pycharm. Cool.

jshint

JSHint

Installation:
$ sudo npm install -g jshint

Why?
use it for JavaScript and node.js

(works within pycharm as well)

Using Pycharm with node.js

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/webhelp/node-js.html

Pycharm colors

After playing with Sublime Text for a while I realized:

• I still want the power and functionality of Pycharm and this is where my $ is going.
• The "look" of Sublime Text and color schemes make Pycharm look dated and ugly.

So, the hunt begins for better color themes for Pycharm.

1. https://github.com/sevas/pycharm-color-schemes, ugg xml errors and I am in no mood to debug that.
2. https://github.com/d1ffuz0r/pycharm-themes
3. https://gist.github.com/brianly/1622286
• put the xml file in ~/.Pycharm20/config/colors
• restart Pycharm if its running
• File->Setting-> Colors & Fonts
• Pick the Dark Solarized theme, do a save as if you want to pick a different font as well.

Note: File->Settings->Appearance lets one pick an overall look for Pycharm. The steps above just muck with the look of the editor component only.

After all of the above I ended up just using the builtin Darkula theme with the font size increased just a little. Fun learning experience anyway.

Meld - a graphical DIFF tool

How to install Meld

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install meld

Stay tuned for how to configure Meld in Pycharm

Using Bitbucket with Pycharm

Pycharm (the python IDE) has built in support for Github. That's nice as I want to use git for source code management. Codeschool by the way has a nice free git intro course in their electives area. Enough to get one going with git.

The free Github plan however is restrictive compared to Bitbucket's free plan.

Github: no private repos, limited to just yourself.
Bitbucket: unlimited private repos, up to 5 team members

So how does one configure Pycharm to use Bitbucket?

1. Create a free bitbucket account
2. Launch Pycharm and go to Settings->Plugins
3. Click on Browse Repositories
4. Enter Bitbucket into the search field
5. Highlight the Bitbucket pluging and click on the "dowload & install" icon
6. Close all windows and re-start Pycharm (required after a plug-in installation)
7. Relauch Pycharm
8. Return to settings and select the new Bitbucket option in the IDE section
9. Enter Bitbucket userID and password.
10. Click on Add SSH Key button and navigate to the SSH key you used for Bitbucket

Install Pycharm on Linux Mint

Download Pycharm tarball from here

Extract it

Move it to /opt

Repair start menu if required to run bin/pycharm.sh 

Upgrade Pycharm

To Upgrade Pycharm running on Linux Mint:

$ su
# /opt/pycharm-2.7.1/bin/pycharm.sh

follow the prompts from Pycharm to do the patch based upgrade
exit Pycharm

# chmod 755 /opt/pycharm-2.7.1/bin/pycharm.sh

Hmm looks like other executables in the bin dir may also need mode changes so non-root account can execute them.