Web Developers: Share Your Setup

[itrogers]

Kind of new to Ubuntu and greatly testing the waters. I am dual booting with windows but I am forcing myself to use Ubuntu while I work on websites and such. If there are any others in the programming/web design/development field who care to share their setup/screenshots/etc it would be greatly appreciated. Goal: completely ditch Windows. Go!

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

if you need something from windows you can use wine (apt:wine) and run notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/), but if you want something native try geany (apt:geany)
i also use firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/firebug/) with firefox
i hard code all my css, js, php, and html
how i have my system set up:
http://yourupload.com/file/506cb252d5b71014e060e91d0b2a1353
trying to run heaven 3.0 while recording did not work very well, i was also making sure my OC was stable with mprime (prime95 for linux)

[na5h]

Aptana Studio (http://www.aptana.com/), 'nuff said!

[CharlesA]

I used to use an Ubuntu box running Bluefish, but I've migrated over to my Win7 box running Dreamweaver...

Of course, with that being said, I am still hand coding my site. CSS, HTML and PHP included.

I am currently tempted to hook up a second monitor to my main desktop.

[itrogers]

Aptana Studio (http://www.aptana.com/), 'nuff said!
I am definitely going to take a look at this and try it out. Looks great!

[harx1337]

Aptana Studio (http://www.aptana.com/), 'nuff said!

This is quality.

[CharlesA]

Aptana Studio (http://www.aptana.com/), 'nuff said!

Wow, that is pretty sweet. Free too.

[Mikeb85]

Emacs and a browser console...

[bmeakings]

When I was using Windows I used Notepad2 and thought things couldn't get any better. Now, if you put me in front of a Windows machine to do web developing I'd go insane :)

Geany is my weapon of choice. Some of its features I particularly like are:
- Save all button
- Can remove trailing and other superfluous white spaces when saving
- Can close tabs with middle click
- Colour picker. Invaluable when I'm doing CSS. No more opening up GIMP for its colour picker!

There's more features either built-in or via plugins like an FTP file viewer, HTML character code picker, etc. If you install Geany I recommend you also install the geany-plugins package.

Another decent web-focussed text editor is Bluefish. I used it for a while but didn't find it to my liking.

If you do a lot of file comparing, Meld is a great little tool for diff viewing. There's also an extension for Nautilus called nautilus-compare that lets you select two files, right-click and then launches Meld to quickly compare the files.

[SeijiSensei]

Emacs and a browser console...

I prefer jed because it's a bit more lightweight than emacs, but otherwise I'm with you. A text editor and a browser is all I've ever used for a decade now. Oh, and the psql PostgreSQL command-line client for interacting with the database backend.

[MooseDog]

Apache
MySQL
PHP

all installed locally for, well, local development :).

For coding:

SublimeText2, repeat SublimeText2.

screenshot:
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[mustang]

netbeans

[Christmas]

I'm just doing basic web development. I'm using Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) and Kate (http://kate-editor.org/) as editors, as all my HTML/CSS/PHP code is done by hand. Also, I have Apache installed and several other packages needed to run a local wordpress blog or similar, e.g. php5-mysql, libapache2-mod-php5.

[mehaga]

Webstorm (http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/)

[na5h]

Apache
MySQL
PHP

all installed locally for, well, local development :).

XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) is a great, hassle-free solution for local development.

[Gyokuro]

I prefer jed because it's a bit more lightweight than emacs, but otherwise I'm with you. A text editor and a browser is all I've ever used for a decade now. Oh, and the psql PostgreSQL command-line client for interacting with the database backend.

Cool - also a person which feels at home with a shell and command line tools - I prefer vim :p

[BrokenKingpin]

MonoDevelop (or VS2012 in Windows) for Asp.net development.

[Ctrl-Alt-F1]

netbeans
This. It freaking pre-scans your files and gives you xhtml to css auto-complete or vice versa. I use Netbeans with just a regular LAMP stack installed on my development machine. I'm considering switching to PostgreSql though.

[ade234uk]

Kind of new to Ubuntu and greatly testing the waters. I am dual booting with windows but I am forcing myself to use Ubuntu while I work on websites and such. If there are any others in the programming/web design/development field who care to share their setup/screenshots/etc it would be greatly appreciated. Goal: completely ditch Windows. Go!

I know its old, but if you are desperate you can run Dreamweaver 8, Photoshop 7 fine in Ubuntu. You just need to install Wine to begin with.
I think Photoshop CS works well too.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=183
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=17

[Mr. Picklesworth]

I use Sublime Text for pretty well everything, along with lessc whenever I can (should that count? I think it should). I use Bzr even if I'm the only person working on something. It keeps me focused, and it's useful to have a full history of changes.

I recently started using LXC, which is indispensable if you want to locally test server stuff in a clean environment. Just create a container, install whatever you want inside it, and start / stop the container as necessary.

The good part of Microsoft recently released a free VM image for testing IE7+, so I've been meaning to play with that. It looks really well put together:
http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools