Development Tools
Just curious but of those of you who develop websites (especially those who do it commercially), what tools and packages do you use?
June 26, 2007
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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.
Comment by Pete — June 26, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
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
Comment by Lyle — June 26, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
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.
Comment by QE — June 26, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
I use Sevitz. He’s great.
Comment by Matt — June 26, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
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…
Comment by Endie — June 26, 2007 @ 9:33 pm
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.
Comment by Lyle — June 27, 2007 @ 8:00 am
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.
Comment by Eliza — June 29, 2007 @ 12:56 pm