Comments on: Development Tools

By: Eliza

Eliza — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:56:50 +0000

I’m a simple girl who loves to handcode. So Notepad2 for writing my code. I utilise Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3 for graphical work, but have utilised GIMP, fireworks and illustrator for some projects. Occasionally Dreamweaver, but only when absolutely forced to by ex-lecturers and dreamweaver-obsessed clients.

IPSwitch’s “WS-FTP” for FTP.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:00:23 +0000

QE - Yep, WS-FTP does handle SFTP as well (should you need it) via SSH, and it also does something called FTPS, which is *shrug* so far as I’m concerned.

Personally, I’ve only used SFTP on a couple of sites, so WS not having it on the personal edition wasn’t an issue - if I needed it, I used command-line SSH, I think, or something called WinSCP.

By: Endie

Endie — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:33:19 +0000

I’ve coded for a lot of environments in a lot of tools, from Notes/WebSphere to php/mySQL, but my current role involves three: developing using Ultraedit to code javascript (ajax-centric) for a broadvision backend; using Eclipse and myEclipse to code Java, also using BV as the beckend; and using Visual Studio to code for .Net. BV makes me appreciate VS.

We use dreamweaver for the shiny stuff, but I avoid it studiously. You know how it is: there are tons of other tools, like Toad etc…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:13:37 +0000

I use Sevitz. He’s great.

By: QE

QE — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:42:39 +0000

What little I do I tend to do in text editors, generally Programmer’s File Editor (out of habit, mainly), GEdit or VIM.

Always Apache, always MySQL; usually PHP but sometimes Python. I used to do a little ASP (because that’s all the host would allow).

Having seen the C# one, I’m getting into IDEs again in a big way, so I’ll probably be on the lookout for something slightly more RAD for most of the languages I use or play with.

Not that choice of FTP client does much, but I’d recommend FileZilla over WS-FTP, unless recent versions of the latter can do SFTP.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:01:27 +0000

Primarily :

Crimson Editor (fantastic text editor) or TextPad (simple decent text editor, without some of Crimson’s bells and whistles)
TopStyle 3 (CSS editor)
Photoshop CS2
XAMPP for localhost-ed sites using MySQL, PHP and Apache

PHP
MySQL
Apache
PHPMyAdmin (hosting-service’s Database admin kit)

Occasionally :
Dreamweaver (if I must, or if the current client uses it)
Fireworks (ditto)

And IPSwitch’s “WS-FTP” program for FTP stuff. (Well, like, duh)
Can’t think of owt else.

Oh, unless you count Firefox + Firebug & Web Develeoper extensions

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:24:42 +0000

Any old text editor, but for Windows my favourite is Crimson Editor. I use the Web Developer extension for Firefox a lot too. For graphic work, I usually use GIMP but I have also used Fireworks in the past and got on quite well with that.