So, you are venturing into the cool crowd by playing with vim.  You are a developer that is used to GUI editors and are not really a shell kind of guy/girl.  Or, maybe you have been using vim for a while and are just used to closing out a file before moving onto the next one.

Having a background in Linux due to my past experience as a Sr. Oracle DBA in Linux environments, I became a Linux command line guru fast.  Using vim as a text editor is very powerful, but what would be even more powerful is being able to switch from file to file quickly and easily.  Below, I’m going to give a visual how-to on multi-tasking in a Unix Shell environment.

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Loadsys has been in business a long while.  Building and designing web applications using PHP.  We initially started building site management systems using our own developed file structure.  No templates, no smarty, just straight mixed up, stirred, PHP and html.  That is exactly what it was.  PHP with a bunch of echos everywhere to display the html dynamically.

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