Current Development Tools
- Basic Text Editor: Notepad ++ - comparable to Sublime Text; hugely popular; frequently updated.
- HTML Editor (trial): CoffeeCup - used for this project; more current than my old copy of Dreamweaver.
- HTML Editor (dated): Dreamweaver MX Studio - not updated due to expense; now all in the Cloud.
- PHP Editor: CodeLobster - works nicely with Joomla, Yii Framework and JQuery.
- Project IDE: Eclipse with Aptana Studio plugin - still wrestling with all the features; supports Git.
- HTML Inspector/Validator: Firebug & HTML Tidy for Firefox - really sheds light on dark places.
- Data Modeling Tool: MySQL Workbench - used ER/Win (now ER/Studio), but I mostly work with MySQL now.
- FTP & SSH: SmartFTP - guess I'll be using the FTP less and the SSH terminal more; nice tool, but Filezilla & PuTTY cover most of the features.
Outside of corporate environments, all my web development has been on Linux web hosts (typical LAMP stacks). Previously I used XAMPP for a localhost. As part of this class I've installed WAMP for comparison. While I've used version control in the past (e.g. PVCS, SCCS and PowerBuilder Native), I'm new to Git.