Development Tools - What do you use?

[GravyMonster]

Just out of interest, of those using Dreamweaver, do any of you actually use the design view at all?

Nope, I basically just use it as a text editor that has type ahead for properties and methods.

Also, are the people just using text editors for web development using them on large projects or is it just for personal stuff?

I use mine on large projects - last thing i did was a multi-level user management system for a SQL 2005 backend.

 

[LazyManc]

Also, are the people just using text editors for web development using them on large projects or is it just for personal stuff?

I use mine on large projects - last thing i did was a multi-level user management system for a SQL 2005 backend.

What I meant by that question was (which isn't obvious having read it again); for the people using purely a text editor (i.e. not an IDE like eclipse / zend studio / dreamweaver with project browsing / building / etc) are they managing to cope ok with large projects, or do they just not realise there are better tools out there?

 

[Shoseki]

What I meant by that question was (which isn't obvious having read it again); for the people using purely a text editor (i.e. not an IDE like eclipse / zend studio / dreamweaver with project browsing / building / etc) are they managing to cope ok with large projects, or do they just not realise there are better tools out there?

It depends entirely on your background. I'm not sure "dreamweaver with project browsing" can really compete with some of the other IDEs, I am not a user of IDEs in general though. The most I have to manage is 3-4 templates at a time, even if the number of pages are in their hundreds.

On another note, how many people here use Open Source Designs? http://www.oswd.org/ They often require recoding to get exactly the effect that you require (for example, for www.vast2007.org I used a heavily modified open source template, (kicking myself now for not referencing the original source, can't find the damn thing to link it).

 

[furnace]

Just out of interest, of those using Dreamweaver, do any of you actually use the design view at all?

Design View in Dreamweaver is helpful, but it's not much better at rendering pages than internet explorer 5.5 . Still, I use it. I *never* do the editing in it, the editing is done in the code view panel, but the design view panel is handy for an on-the-fly preview of what you're doing.

 

[allllec]

Design View in Dreamweaver is helpful, but it's not much better at rendering pages than internet explorer 5.5 . Still, I use it. I *never* do the editing in it, the editing is done in the code view panel, but the design view panel is handy for an on-the-fly preview of what you're doing.

Agreed, also handy if you have a big or complicated page getting the curser to the correct place in the code. sound silly but i live in split view for this exact reason

oh better give some input ..

obviously use relevant browsers and stuff to test pages and what not so i wont bother listing but

Dreamweaver
Visual Studio
Delphi 7

and VPCs for testing sometimes

 

[Moredhel]

vim is by far my most common dev tool. I use it for coding everything from C to Ruby (inc PHP, Python etc.).

Subversion is my RCS of choice, I really couldn't work on a project without source control thesedays.

Database wise my most common ones used to be Oracle and MS SQL Server 2000. Nowadays it's MySQL and Postgresql.

What I meant by that question was (which isn't obvious having read it again); for the people using purely a text editor (i.e. not an IDE like eclipse / zend studio / dreamweaver with project browsing / building / etc) are they managing to cope ok with large projects, or do they just not realise there are better tools out there?

For me the speed of getting things done in vim more than outweighs the advantages of a true IDE. I've managed some fairly huge projects in vim before, and I tend to find myself just keeping a mental picture of the project in my head and using that for class/function lookups.

 

[Shadez]

The only thing i use that hasnt been posted already is MPLAB

 

[RockLobster]

Finally, I noticed there wasn't a single vi/vim user, or maybe they're just lurking in the shadows too scared to reveal their masochistic tendancies

I use Vi, it's evil though.

There's a few things in this thread which have got me interested and could prove useful. Cheers all.