What's your dev environment like?

variaas · 2006-11-12 16:31:47

I am still trying to create an ideal development environment and wanted to throw the question out there. Currently I’m using Notepad++, TortiseSVN, and Firefox (+WebDeveloper extension) for development. Out of curiosity, I wonder what the TXP developers use and what everyone uses to develop and maintain their code.

Thanks!

jm · 2006-11-12 17:36:34

Code

Notepad++
Filezilla – FTP
Uniform Server – small WAMP server
Cygwin – just started using this for todo lists, wget, svn, and command line FTP

Browsers

Opera – primary browser
Firefox
IE6 Standalone + IE7 final from MS
Sizer for resizing windows quickly

Management

Side Job Track – just started using this

Walker · 2006-11-12 17:37:36

Textmate & BBEdit with SVN, Capistrano, and Transmit.

hcgtv · 2006-11-12 17:45:39

Software I use on a daily basis for site development:

UltraEdit: http://www.ultraedit.com/
Komodo: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/
WinSCP: http://winscp.net/
FileZilla: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
TortoiseSVN: http://tortoisesvn.net/
Beyond Compare: http://www.scootersoftware.com/
PuTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
XnView: http://www.xnview.com/

hakjoon · 2006-11-12 18:06:52

Mac (primary workstation)

Textmate
SkEdit
SVK (for decentralized SVN on the go)
Cyberduck

Windows

Topstyle Pro
Homesite
TortoiseSVN
Filezilla

I highly recommend SVK for anyone who does work with Subversion on a laptop that might not always be connected to the net as it lets you perform remote commits which you can push back to your main repository when you are on the network again.

soulship · 2006-11-12 18:11:20

side note:

Hey I use Komodo a lot, but did you see the testing for the new beta 4?

It looks like the took some tricks from textmate.

User-Defined Languages
Komodo 4 introduces a system for adding custom language support called UDL (User-Defined Languages) which allows Komodo to properly syntax-color multi-language files and templated files common in many web programming frameworks. We use UDL to provide better support for RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Mason, Smarty, Django and Luddite (the language used to develop new UDL).

Project Templates
Projects templates can be created and used when creating a new project. They are a great way to add new functionality for project-specific needs, such as rsync, Rails, and more.

SFTP and SCP
Komodo now supports access to remote files via SFTP and SCP. Saved password information for all remote servers is stored securely in Mozilla’s native password manager, or you can use a key agent to manage your secure authentications.

This looks awesome! I just downloaded the new beta. Perhaps the textmate bundles that Mario has been busy creating can be ported somehow.

@variaas

I would add a few things to that list.

navicat

or

sqlYog (they have a free “lite” version. But is you do this daily then nothing is as good as navicat. I love it

And I use wamp 5 thats been modified a bit to include rails and Active State Python

ruud · 2006-11-12 18:19:35

Joe’s own editor
diff
grep
Firefox + webdeveloper extension

colak · 2006-11-12 19:47:41

code

bbedit
Firefox + webdeveloper extension

browsers

firefox
safari
opera
ie 5.2

ftp

transmit

local testing

mamp

RedFox · 2006-11-12 20:08:23

BBEdit (if I don’t use Textpattern!)
CSSedit (amazing handy editor!)
Firefox (all the way + Firebug and several favelets!)
Transmit (does something odd with my folder icons!)
MAMP (local knitting!)
Xylescope (when I’m in real trouble (debugging)!)
Photoshop (all the images!)
Kleurenpikker (a homemade ‘colorpicker’ … system wide!)

That’s all, folks!

jakob · 2006-11-12 21:03:17

How do those of you with mac and windows platforms set up your local test environment so that you can test your developments with both windows and mac?

hcgtv · 2006-11-12 21:18:05

soulship wrote:

Hey I use Komodo a lot, but did you see the testing for the new beta 4?

Beta 4 sounds awesome, I downloaded it but haven’t had the time to play with it. What I like about Komodo is that I can use it on my Windows laptop and my Debian Etch workstation.

hakjoon · 2006-11-12 22:13:58

jakob wrote:
How do those of you with mac and windows platforms set up your local test environment so that you can test your developments with both windows and mac?

I have a FreeBSD install running on an old P3 which hosts most of my development stuff and my SVN server. So it’s all in one place.

jakob · 2006-11-12 22:32:14

hakjoon wrote:

I have a FreeBSD install running on an old P3 which hosts most of my development stuff and my SVN server. So it’s all in one place.

So you have a dedicated linux machine as overall server? I just have a windows desktop machine and a mac laptop. Anyway suggestions of getting that setup to work, e.g. with webserver on the pc? Both have WLAN.

hcgtv · 2006-11-12 23:22:25

jakob,

I also have 2 linux boxes in my network, one is my development box, the other runs our Intranet. My Windows laptop is running my own custom AMP stack, I use it mostly to work on templates and themes.

In your case, give your Windows box a static ip, like so:
192.168.1.99 jakob.com

Then on your Mac laptop, add the Windows IP to your hosts file and then when you key in jakob.com in Safari, it will take you to your Windows box. The hosts file is looked at before the browser searches the DNS servers, so you can have your internal network be whatever you like.

marios · 2006-11-12 23:34:36

( On the MAC administrative Box )

TextMate + TXP Bundle
Transmit 3.5
Skedit (Almost not necessary anymore, TM is friend with Transmit here and yourself)
Terminal app
XAMPP (feeding the LAN locally from a windows Box)
Xylscope
Safari
Firefox + Extensions
File List ( Peter Maurer)
( Windows for serving and testing and Graphic work, so I can have everything neatly locked down in prefs Sharing on the mac administrative Box)

Topstyle Pro
Photoshop 7 (Until Adobe decides about delivering MAC compatible software FOR ALL MAC PLATFORMS, without driving you nuts)
Illustrator 10 ( windows ) (see above)

There’s more, but this is what I am using these days.

( I can not wait until Jaguar comes out. As soon as that happens, TextMate v2 is going to be available not any much time after, which will make me switch to Jaguar immediately)

NOTE.: It is worthwhile to mention here that TextMate can handle about any Programming Language/ CMS/ Framework, that you can think of, and if it doesn’t know it yet, it can be told to do so (except binaries). It’s the most extensible adaptable Texteditor around. It’ll just do, what you want it to do, and not some marketing department want’s you to do.
Are you a Programer ? and want to switch to Ruby, Python, Perl ? Edit CSS, HTML, XHTML, write and e-mail ?

No problem, it’s just a shortcut or TAB Trigger away.
(No need for lorem ipsum applications and other such nonsense)

regards, marios

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