Development Tools - What do you use?

RockLobster

RockLobster

RockLobster

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I just wanted to get an idea on what people use for development and maybe someone might use a tool which could be handy for others.

Web - ASP.NET, etc
  • Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver
Web - PHP
I'm new to PHP so it would be welcoming to hear what people use. At the moment I'm using notepad.

Windows
  • Microsoft C# 2005 Express
  • Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express
Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express
  • Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
  • Microsoft Access (rarely use this now)
Any other tools
  • Putty
  • WinSCP - Use this to upload my PHP stuff, etc.
 
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Eclipse, MySQL (preferably PostgreSQL), Subversion, Gjallar, Mantis, VS2005, Firebug, Firefox, IE6, IE7, Opera, Lynx (:o) pscp (same as winscp,) putty, SmartFTP, Apache2, IIS, SQL 2005 and probably a load more I have forgotten about. :)

EDIT: Oh, and VMWare.
 
Visual Studio 2005 - VB.Net
Microsoft Expression - HTML, JavaScipt, VBScript
SQL2005 - Management Studio
Graphics - Photoshop, Fireworks, Blender3d
PPL - Mobile phone games
Office - VBA addons.
 
I'm a PHP / web developer...

Eclipse + the following plugins:
PDT - for PHP
Aptana - mainly for its superior JS / CSS support
Subclipse - subversion integration
Mylyn - trac integration

Text editors:
I've flitted between many but I usually come back to notepad++, although i'd probably switch to "e text editor" if it was free. EditPadPro is also useful for heavy regEx stuff.

Web based:
Trac - software project management / ticketing system
phpMyAdmin - web based mysql admin tool

Browsers:
(main) Firefox + firebug / web developer toolbar / tab mix plus / ySlow
Opera
Safari (windows)
IE6/7

Misc:
PuTTY - ssh client
WinSCP - secure file transfer
Filezilla - ftp client
Mysql Query browser

Server side:
Apache 2.x
Mysql 5.x
PHP 5.2.x
Xdebug
 
Windows
  • Visual Studio 2005
  • MSBuild
  • NUnit
  • log4net
  • SourceSafe (unfortunately, not my choice)
Web
  • Visual Studio 2005
  • Internet Explorer Developers Toolbar
  • Firebug
Java
  • Eclipse
  • JUnit
  • log4j
  • Ant
Database
  • SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
  • MySQL
  • Sybase iAnywhere
  • Oracle
  • TOAD
Graphics
  • Photoshop CS3
  • Flash CS3
Misc
  • Google
 
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Web

  • Dreamweaver (8)
  • MS Visual Web Developer 2005 Express

Database

  • MS Access (moving away from this in favour of...)
  • MS SQL Server 2005 Express

I only recently moved away from using classic ASP 3.0 and started using ASP.NET. Visual Web dev 2005 really is a great free tool from MS and now I write the majority of my VB code in this and just use Dreamweaver for actual HTML/CSS/Template stuff.

I particularly like the code indentation and the way it auto-completes tags and underlines errors, 'cos if you're like me, you STILL forget to put an "End If" even though you've been doing it for years :D
 
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Server / Development
Visual Studio 2005 / 2003 C#/VB/ASP
SourceSafe
Team Foundation Server
Microsoft Dynamics 3.0 (MSCRM)
Biztalk Server 2004
RAdmin
XML Notepad 2007
NotePad ++
Internet Explorer Developers Toolbar
Firefox

Graphics
The Gimp (work)

Were not given gfx software as we have designers who need it.

Database
SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition + Reporting Services
SQL Server 2000 + Reporting Services
 
Java
Eclipse

.NET Stuff
VS.NET 2005

Web Stuff
About to start using Aptana

Design Tools
Borland Together Architect for Eclipse

Text Editor
Notepad++
 
PHP
- Dreamweaver
- Zend Studio

Graphics
- Fireworks 8 (CS3 seems to crash sometimes)
- Photoshop CS3

...pretty much it. Firefox for the web. You say you're using Notepad at the moment for php... I hope you mean Notepad++?
 
From the other thread, all that I use for web development :

Notepad++, Photoshop, Firefox, Filezilla, a CSS and javascript reference should you need them.

PHP/CSS/Javascript/xhtml all in Notepad++, I sometimes use layout information from Adobe ImageReady.

For c++ I generally use gedit, autotools for compiling. Don't do much windows c++ work any more.

For Java (also not done for a while) I preferred Eclipse... mostly due to its funky packaging abilities.
 
ASP - Visual Interdev 6
PHP - Dreamweaver
C#/VB.Net - VS 2005
VB6 - VS6
CSS - Notepad
SQL Enterprise Manager 2000/2005
Access 2000 - for prototyping

That's about it :)
 
Java
Netbeans
Eclipse
Notepad++

PHP
Eclipse + PDT

Servers
XAMPP Lite (which includes):
Apache
PHP + PEAR
MySQL
Filezilla Server
Mercury

Assembly (for Microcontrollers)
GPUTILS
MPLAB
ICProg
 
Just out of interest, of those using Dreamweaver, do any of you actually use the design view at all?

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

How many have tried Eclipse and not liked it?

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 :)
 
LazyManc said:
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 :)
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They would reply but they're still trying to work out the sequence of keys required to exit the program.
 
I would use emacs, but I have no time to use a purely text based, no highlighted structure editor, that I can't even use the bash prompt simultaneously because it eats the current prompt.

gedit + bash f tw.

On another note, emacs/vim are extremely useful should X ever die and you are stuck at a prompt. In which case, I am a bit screwed ^^
 
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