I heard good things about PHPStorm. I haven't used it myself, but you could give it a try.

Like today?

I'm not sure, but I get the feeling that different groups in the opensource community are struggling to get control of their platform. Gnome peeps are doing their own thing, Ubuntu heads off in another direction. Red Hat does their own things.
The last 8 years were somewhat mixed in this regard. There was cooperation, like on freedesktop.org, but olso fragmentation and diversification. Now it all seems to fall apart somewhat. I don't see the different groups come together.

I'm really not fond of some things that are happening, like Systemd and all the other incompatible SysVinit systems. Also the mess that are the main desktops now. Then this new syslog proposal. I doubt other distro's will take this, I expect they will stick with syslog or syslog-ng.

For myself I think I'm going with Debian (testing that is) soon. Once old-school just meant old stuff, but nowadays it almost sounds like the best thing there is. All the new software with less bugs, but not the crummy new inventions which you'd rather let pass by.

I have a Blackberry 9300. If I turn 3G off, and just use GPRS/Wifi It lasts for 4 or 5 days. I don't use it heavily, so that helps quite a bit.
I do look a lot at Android phones, and last week I almost bought a ZTE Blade. Current Android, 800x480 screen, 100 Euros and good reviews. But the battery lasts about a day is what I read mostly as well. It's somewhat below avarege even for an Android phone. So I bailed out.

I think this is still the achillesheel for smartphones. Battery quality doubles around every 3 or 5 years, but phones get more demanding, and more thin, so I doubt we will see much improvement for the next 2 years.
I really wish some manufacturere would sell a cheap Android phone with long lasting batteries. I'm more concerned with battery time than with a 3mm thinner phone.
I just can't imagine having a phone that needs to be charged every day. What if I forget, or if I am busy with other things? That will effectively mean I have no phone the next day. I don't think that's acceptable. I have a phone to use, and to be reachable. If the battery is empty, the phone isn't of much use.

So iPhones and Android phones seem nice, but I'm holding off for a little while.

I'm not really interested in search, and how fast it is. I hardly use it.
I have a simple workflow. I use my inbox (or actually several inboxes) as a todo-list. Everything that's in there has an item I have to look at.
When I'm done with the mail, I delete it or pu it in a folder. That way my inbox is clear to look at, and I hardly ever forget to do something, or forget to reply to an email.
When I want to search for something (which hardly ever happens) I mostly know what I'm looking for, and can browse through the folder myself.

So for me it's not about wasted time in sorting, and hardly any time won in searching. It's about workflow.

I'm Dutch, and there has been a lot of controversy about this system. One disadvantage of the system is that it's an invasion of privacy. The government now knows exactly where and when you drive.

I just don't understand why it's needed. Currently there's a lot of tax on gasoline, and it has the same function. If you drive a lot, or if your car uses lots of gasoline, you pay more.
This system provides the same function, but with a lot of bureaucracy, and an invasion of privacy.

Just 10 seconds after posting I figure out you're asking for the web-application. I don't know if there's a Gmail alternative like Gmail. That's very heavy-weight on javascript.
Squirrelmail is rather simple in my opinion. Roundcube is also preferred by a lot of people.
A disadvantage of both of them is there's no mobile version. Horde has a mobile version, but I found it quite hard to set up right.

For a mail server I very much prefer Courier Imap. There's also Cyrus, which some people favor, but I like the simplicity of Courier.
If you want full blown calendering and groupware, you might look at something else, but that's not what you're asking.

For a mta, most people prefer Postfix, allthough Exim is allright as well.

For configuring your services... At my job we use a VPS from a hosting provider, complete with cPanel. It's a really easy way to get started with it, and add domains and mail addresses.

That sounds as if Wayland is allright. I just hope it doesn't turn into the next PulseAudio or NetworkManager.

All you mostly read about JavaScript is in the browser. There are however project that take JavaScript beyond the browser.
Are there any people who have experience with a project like Gluescript? It's on http://gluescript.sourceforge.net/ and it provides GUI programming, server side JavaScript, and maybe other things.
I just found out its existence today. Just wondering about opinions.

I see this reply all the time on slashdot. But just this week I found out that at my work, where we have simple P4 machines, a simple javascript animation causes Firefox to use 100% cpu.
That's quite a lot. So I think javascript performance still can be improved. It's just one animation that runs continuously, on my own site: http://chaosmongers.org/
So dismissing speed improvements is not something I do anymore. I do think speed improvements can and should be made.

Thanks, that's a very informative read. It explains to me what xhtml is and is not (wrt mime-types), and why html5 is the way to go.

My comment was mostly meant as funny/sarcastic, but I guess no one else thinks of it that way. So anyway...

Strict ordering is afaik part of the POSIX standard. It means that when you run a command line application, you first give the options, then the arguments. Like "less -p 60 /var/log/messages" where -p is an option, and /var/log/messages is an argument.
On BSD's libc strict ordering is demanded, while Linux/glibc have sloppy ordering. You can run it like "less /var/log/messages -p 60" on Linux.
When you're used to the sloppy way, it's hard to get yourself used to the strict way.

Why I prefer BSD over Linux. There are several reasons:

1. Tcsh is the best shell ever. I just don't understand why Apple ever switched to Bash.
2. Nvi is a really nice vi editor, much better then Vim. Combined with minimal but effective terminal settings I get my work done much faster.
3. Bind 4 is a proven and secure DNS platform.
4. A command-line with strict ordering is fully POSIX 2.0 compliant. I just can't stand anything with sloppy ordering.
5. The package management is simple but effective.
6. Security patches should come as source code only, so you can review them.

These are the reasons why you should switch to BSD today.

Whoops, apparently there's just an update released today. With a different fix it seems.
http://forums.cpanel.net/f185/case-45290-exim-0-day-178281.html