"I've used a number of IDE's. My first love was Forte. Then, someone explained to me that Forte was based on Netbeans. So I tried Netbeans and I liked it. It was my main IDE for almost two years. But I was still using Vim periodically because some editing was easier in Vim than in Netbeans.
"Then, one of my colleagues (Michel, it's all your fault!) introduced me to IntelliJ IDEA. I was hooked! IntelliJ remains my favourite IDE, even more than Eclipse. But I don't have the funds to pay for a license, so I looked for the next best thing..."
