Hey guys! U have answered my Question indirectly. Been wondering whether to use Dreamweaver or PHP Designer 2008. now I know Where to start

Dreamweaver for me with occasional use of notepad and editplus.

Real developers use OS X, TextMate, Transmit, and FireFox.

Sean Gates - 21 August 2009 03:12 AM

Real developers use OS X, TextMate, Transmit, and FireFox.

No, [URL=http://xkcd.com/378/]real developers use…[/URL]

I’m using Notepad++ on Windows and I’m pretty happy with it.

Dam1an - 21 August 2009 08:09 AM

Sean Gates - 21 August 2009 03:12 AM

Real developers use OS X, TextMate, Transmit, and FireFox.

No, [URL=http://xkcd.com/378/]real developers use…[/URL]

True, very true

Well i ahve using komodo edit.. i love it.. but still finding a better one

I am using Coda and I love it.

Coda and Textmate sometimes.

I think I might give PHP Designer a try again myself.  I am actually using Aptana… although its good, its way way too heavy on system resources and I am not too sure the PHP aspect of it has matured enough.

Yeah php designer’s pretty good.

Daniel Moore - 06 April 2009 02:38 PM

I have to agree that almost every GUI editor out there feels tediously slow compared to vim, except for UltraEdit.  I’ve been using version 14 and just upgraded to version 15.  Started with version 5 back in 98. 
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Of course, right now it is only available for Windows, but will be released soon for both Linux and Mac.

Sorry for clipping the quote..

I dig ultraedit a lot - I just wish I could get it to work better in *nix.  I’m using Aptana standalone because of the SVN and FTP integration + decent syntax highlighting.

Started using TextMate again, and I love it. F*ck resource heavy Aptana

Have you tried Netbeans? It’s a little bit ‘lighter’ than Eclipse, but since it’s a full fledged IDE it’s obviously not as fast as the ‘text editors’. The support for SVN (the only versioning system I have a lot experience with) is great, you basically don’t have to use another SVN tool anymore.

Another option could be VIM. The learning curve is pretty steep but after you get used to it, you won’t ever want to use another text editor again (well maybe EMACS, but I’m not going to start that discussion here).

Apatana 1.3 is out. It is much faster than it has been previously. I had been using aptana in eclipse and it was kind of slowish, but I’m kind of slowish too…

The new aptana is finally available as standalone linux (even 64) without the full eclipse underneath. Much better performance than previous versions.

The php add-in is getting much better. I’ve added in code snippets and templates for my models as a whole unit and for different patterns I use in controllers. Most javascript libraries are available for code-assist. There is a new json editor.

Best part is it’s free.