On Apr 23, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
Again, since I use vim and ssh I'm not familiar with the standard
"Free" tool-chain so I'm trying to figure that out. What I'm thinking
should exist is something like the following:
1. An editor to write .php, .html, .css, .js files. I have no idea
what people use for an editor on Mac. What's the Mac equivalent of
Notepad? Is Eclipse good for this?
Eclipse is probably overkill.
If you're looking for "Free" TextWrangler is the little brother of the
venerable BBEdit:
http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/
No built-in preview, but command-tab/command-R to Safari or Firefox
works just fine.
2. A way to upload / sync files. It would be great if this was built
into the editor so that she could just make some changes, hit "Upload"
and it would automatically sync the server with whatever files she
modified locally. If such a thing does not exist I suppose an sftp
with UI style program would do. I know there's something like that for
Windows but what is the Mac equivalent?
TextWrangler supports Open/Save to FTP/SFTP very well.
Coda (mentioned in my last email) supports that syncing stuff, I
think. I personally never use that kind of functionality. I either
develop locally and move changes to a server via subversion, or
develop "directly" on a remote machine via sftp.
3. Debugging tools. Firebug, Burp proxy, ...?
Firebug pretty much does nearly everything one might need, in my
experience.
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