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i like Taco but its not WYSIWYG

try Mozilla.  it has an authoring tool built into it.  if you don't mind the huge footprint.

my office mate uses TextMate ... .... er .... and he loves it.  mate.

Last edited by b_dubb (2007-03-02 3:51 pm)

For editing, check out HyperEdit. Nice app and cheap too.

http://www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/

For FTP on Mac, I like Transmit.

http://www.panic.com/transmit/


Ciao!

I sort of like Nvu, it will take some getting use to however.

iWeb is ok, but I was having trouble fighting the templates.  Even when I open a "blank" page, there is stuff there that gets in my way.  I hate templates anyway.  They never do what I want them to, or look the way I think they should.

I may try RapidWeaver if Nvu doesn't seem to work.

I am trying to learn XHTML myself, but this page is for my dad's business.  I don't have time to learn how to do it from scratch, though I can make improvements as I go.

Thanks for the help guys.  I'm sure with the suggestions I'll have something that will work for me until I learn to program on my own.

I use Amaya <http://www.w3.org/Amaya/>.

What can I say? This from W3C, it supports many standards (html 4; xhtml basic, frameset, 1.0, 1.1; svg; limited xml). It has a code checker that tells you if your markup is valid.

This program will make you want to learn to hand-code HTML. The graphic viewer is rather basic and sucky with css effects, plus I think the program inserts invisible format codes into its files to format them. It runs slow too.

Last edited by wgabrie (2007-03-03 7:14 pm)

I'm pretty much in Zend Studio for most of my day, though I'm starting to use SubEthaEdit more lately because if its Smarty syntax highlighting and because I can pretty easily freak out Zend with Javascript.

I have TextMate, but just can't get into it. I still really like skEdit for doing HTML & CSS, but I'm in PHP so much that Zend Studio was essential and very welcome.

I haven't gotten around to buying CSSEdit yet.
For FTP its all Transmit at home, but I have YummyFTP at work.

And I'll see Scott's Terminal and raise him a Console.

Last edited by Gipetto (2007-03-06 8:48 pm)

I'm doing mostly PHP right now so its good...
And on newer hardware (PB G4, 1.67) it runs really well.

Last edited by Gipetto (2007-03-06 11:22 pm)

Very well. That's all I do any more.

Its great at loading definitions from user defined classes as well as function hinting that shows variables and types expected by the function. It also hints for functions added by inherited classes.

The only bad thing is that it won't process __autoload - which is most of what I'm working around now, so in program debugging is broken for me.

And, as far as I know, its the only program that really supports docBlock comments right now. It'll even build documentation for you based on them. So if you comment well...

I use Apache, MySQL, PHP for the server stuff, and build on a content management system; usually Drupal.

The design work is then done in PHP and CSS, for which I use CSSEdit (I love this little application) and Apple XCode (free and very robust... I'm surprised more people aren't using it).

For FTP, I've been using FileZilla recently, as Cyberduck seems to hang when trying to download files. Cyberduck has a much cleaner interface, but the latest version just won't work for me.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, Drupal produces very clean code, and I'll second the notion about WYSIWYG editors producing bloated code.

Last edited by Antonio (2007-03-20 2:32 pm)

I'm just starting out as a professional Java developer, but I use PHP for quick, personal projects like scripting my home server and my Dreamhost site.

I use NetBeans for Java when I'm running XP, Vim for everything when I'm running through a shell, and I'll use anything (Filezilla, rsync, Midnight Commander, lftp, smbclient, Subversion, etc...) for file transfer, depending on availability in the development environment and the size of the project.

I used to use Zend, but my trial license ran out. I love the SSH and subversion integration.

Uh...

I use Dreamweaver.

I suck.

spinner wrote:

I must say, I actively dislike JSP/Servelets, the code always seems clunky compared to the PHP and Tomcat is a pain in the butt to configure with Apache.

I love servlets, but I hate JSPs. Half the trouble with Struts is all the configuration. My head is spinning from working on one such project right now.

One of these days, though, I'm going to learn how to develop n-tiered CMS's on Apache Cocoon + Jackrabbit, and the heavens will part, and you will see me descending on a cloud...

Basseq wrote:

1) Is anyone else, like, really stoked for CS3? Nerds.

Two weeks ago, I found out how to edit any text field in windows using GVim by pressing a key combination. I wasted 8 hours of work time last Wednesday making a PHP5 Curl Object so I could scrape the basketball stats off the NCAA website and store them in a MySQL database. I was tasked with documenting a web application here at work in Visio, from which I got distracted because I started playing around with Visio's class hierarchy and inheritance model.

I'm sorry Basseq, but your trite little insult hardly does me any justice.