Windows Development tools

[Benjamin Zajac]

So, sadly, I'm working on a project that I need to develop in windows. I'm using XP, cause I hate vista. I have to work in windows because all the mockups are done in Photoshop and Illustrator, and GIMP won't play nice with the crazy filters and layers and crap the person used in the PSDs. Rather than doing a whole virtual machine, I dusted off the old XP partition on my hard drive. It's been a while.

So, I'm trying to find the best tools for developing a *AMP project. Here's what I got so far:

1) Eclipse PDT.

2) Xampp

Yeah, that's about it. While that really should be enough, I'm really about to kick Bill Gates in the nuts, because every time I want to edit php.ini or any other random file without a .txt extension, I have to go through that annoying dialog to use notepad. And how I hate notepad. I'm downloading notepad++, and probably gonna run with gvim for windows too. Any other tools, preferably free, that might make my life easier.

And anyone who welcomes me back to windows, die. Setting up my windows dev environment has taken the better part of two days, where any linux, using just the command line, would have taken me 15 minutes.

Bottom line: I want a decent plain text editor. Light weight, simple, and can be easily set up to do right click -> edit file with whatever-editor

Thoughts?

[Bryan Cockerham]

Komodo.

Can you not export jpg’s and take them back with you to linux?

[Bryan Cockerham]

I’ve definitely been known to use Cygwin, putty shelled into localhost, and vim, when times get desperate.

 

 

 

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Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:08 PM
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Subject: [NYIT Programmers] Windows Development tools

 

So, sadly, I'm working on a project that I need to develop in windows. I'm using XP, cause I hate vista. I have to work in windows because all the mockups are done in Photoshop and Illustrator, and GIMP won't play nice with the crazy filters and layers and crap the person used in the PSDs. Rather than doing a whole virtual machine, I dusted off the old XP partition on my hard drive. It's been a while.

[Benjamin Zajac]

Got Cygwin. Definitely need to find a better terminal. Got Terminator, but still buggy. rxvt is ok, but buggy as well.

I could export it, but its a ton of overlapping layers, sliding menus and sexy stuff like that. Plus I need to do all the chopping myself. I don't really feel like doing all the chopping up front, but view by view. So I'd have to keep switching back and forth.

[Jonathan Kraska]

Komodo is definitely pretty sweet.  Got some nice auto completion.  I use PSPad though.  Its pretty straightforward, but it has a nice FTP integration which i've gotten used to.  

Putty is standard terminal.. nothing special but it works 

Jonathan Kraska
www.jkraska.com

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Bryan Cockerham <b.y...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Bryan Cockerham]

I like putty’s copy by selecting, and paste by right-clicking.  I get so used to it I try it everywhere, even outlook sometimes.  

Shelling into Cygwin through putty is a little slow, but if you get tired of trying to hack in an environment coded by the same developers who brought you mine-sweeper, it’s a definite escape.