What's your favorite IDE?

[sze5003]

So at work I use STS but at home I do some web development with php, html, css. Looking for an IDE to use at home that will connect well with wamp and with lamp in linux mint.

I've been using aptana but seems like you can't get localhost working with it to preview your changes without copying and noting all the changes you made from your project workspace to the apache/wamp workspace.

Is there any ide that will let me keep two workspaces but has the ability to commit my changes locally to my wamp/apache directory?

I know dreamweaver let you do this but I haven't found anything like that.

 

[beginner99]

My first question would be: Can it cost something?

I use Netbeans for php as well and it does work. However auto complete stuff and refactoring can be problematic. However debugging works just fine.

I use xampp for development and I work directly in the according folder so save means the local web server only sees the newest file. Not sure why copying is needed for preview?

supposedly phpstorm is the best php IDE but it's not free and for the simple !!! stuff I do, it was not worth the cost.

 

[Bulldog13]

Visual Studio for paid, Eclipse for free.

 

[sze5003]

Yea I do simple things too so paying for an ide is not something I would want to do. Tried a trial of php storm and it is nice but yea, I don't want to pay for it for some files I may touch once or twice a month when I get the time.

I could have my workspace directly in the directory where localhost lives but in case I screw up I would want to have a backup I guess. I may stick with Aptana for now.

 

[mjd]

Yeah, try the jetbrains offerings. The demo is free to try. It is paid-for annually, but worth it. For php, they have phpstorm. But all their products seem to be based on the same engine, so if you have to do some RoR or Java work, it'll be a similar experience:
http://www.jetbrains.com/

-M

 

[EvilManagedCare]

Oops, never mind.

 

[Graze]

Yeah, try the jetbrains offerings. The demo is free to try. It is paid-for annually, but worth it. For php, they have phpstorm. But all their products seem to be based on the same engine, so if you have to do some RoR or Java work, it'll be a similar experience:
http://www.jetbrains.com/

-M

Don't you read?

Let's be nice here, guys
-ViRGE

 

[beginner99]

Visual Studio for paid, Eclipse for free.

PHP and WAMPP with visual studio? I wanna see that...you obviously did not read the full post.

I could have my workspace directly in the directory where localhost lives but in case I screw up I would want to have a backup I guess.

So basically you are not using source control? I prefer mercurial but git is more abundant.

So my advice would be to start using source control (read up on it!!!) and then aptana seems to fit your needs just fine.

For quick stuff I only use notepad++ anyway when dealing with PHP. Netbeans mainly for debugging in case of non-obvious problems.

 

[sze5003]

Yea I have only used source control when working on a team with others long while back when I was in school. For stuff where I'm the main person touching the stuff, I have not thought about it. I'll check out the links.

I'll have to setup a private git repository somewhere even though I may not like setting one up on the net for my files to just sit there.

 

[plutoclacks]

Visual Studio FTW!

 

[beginner99]

Yea I have only used source control when working on a team with others long while back when I was in school. For stuff where I'm the main person touching the stuff, I have not thought about it. I'll check out the links.

I'll have to setup a private git repository somewhere even though I may not like setting one up on the net for my files to just sit there.

I would always use source control even for my hobby projects exactly because you can easily revert changes if you made a mistake. without much hassle. There is no reason not to use it and a private repo so what? AFAIK bitbucket.org no offers unlimited private repos for mercurial and git. This also makes it easy to work on 2 different PCs (desktop, laptop) even if you are the sole developer

 

[Bootleg Betty]

I would always use source control even for my hobby projects exactly because you can easily revert changes if you made a mistake. without much hassle. There is no reason not to use it and a private repo so what? AFAIK bitbucket.org no offers unlimited private repos for mercurial and git. This also makes it easy to work on 2 different PCs (desktop, laptop) even if you are the sole developer

This. You really should use VCS.

You could do script for deployment, but I don't think you can do that easily on windows. It's trivial on Linux or Mac OS, though.

 

[sze5003]

This. You really should use VCS.

You could do script for deployment, but I don't think you can do that easily on windows. It's trivial on Linux or Mac OS, though.

I will spend time setting up my code with git in windows and then in linux using bitbucket probably as a private server. If I get a laptop later it may come in handy.

I guess this means I will make my apache directory my workspace so files can get updated right away and I can preview using localhost.

 

[smackababy]

I pretty much use Visual Studio for C++ and Eclipse for Java. I don't mess around with other languages often (just too busy these days and C++ satisfies all my home coding needs as it is). Both can be gotten for free and are good enough in my opinion.

 

[sze5003]

Yea visual studio express edition is good enough for me if I want to do .net with c# or vb. I've been helping my brother with his vb class so I had to install VS. But for my main site I mess with I prefer to switch over to linux mint and do my thing there. I'm suprised wamp installed and configured correctly in 8.1, when I had win 7 I needed to modify a lot of settings.

 

[GregGreen]

It's more a full-featured text editor that you can extend with packages than IDE, but I'd recommend Sublime Text. Low memory usage, very configurable while still having a nice gui, and supports build systems (like what you sound like you need to get files into your WAMP install). It's free to [indefinitely] evaluate (you'll get a window every ten saves or so saying that you should maybe register that you can hit cancel on).

If you get more into it, the Jetbrains projects are pretty good too. Have used RubyMine and IntelliJ at work and liked both. Found IntelliJ far superior to Eclipse but I mostly write JS, so my day to day needs are far different. Mostly use IntelliJ with the Ruby plugin for Cucumber testing

 

[sze5003]

It's more a full-featured text editor that you can extend with packages than IDE, but I'd recommend Sublime Text. Low memory usage, very configurable while still having a nice gui, and supports build systems (like what you sound like you need to get files into your WAMP install). It's free to [indefinitely] evaluate (you'll get a window every ten saves or so saying that you should maybe register that you can hit cancel on).

If you get more into it, the Jetbrains projects are pretty good too. Have used RubyMine and IntelliJ at work and liked both. Found IntelliJ far superior to Eclipse but I mostly write JS, so my day to day needs are far different. Mostly use IntelliJ with the Ruby plugin for Cucumber testing

Nice I'll check it out. I installed git in windows and linux and have been messing with it. I work in java for my job but I want to dabble with other languages at home. Good thing I have a subscription to skillport books 24x7 from work. Always fun to learn something new.

 

[Markbnj]

Nice I'll check it out. I installed git in windows and linux and have been messing with it. I work in java for my job but I want to dabble with other languages at home. Good thing I have a subscription to skillport books 24x7 from work. Always fun to learn something new.

I use ST for Python development. It's a great editor. The plug-in ecosystem and usable column selection and paste operations are worth the price of admission by themselves.

 

[KWiklund]

I like Visual Studio for a lot of what I do (C++ and C#), at least when I'm programming something PC-centric. I also use ADI's VisualDSP++ a fair bit; the overall IDE is pretty good, but has a few annoying bugs. I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but will likely end up using it more often in the future.

My least favourite would probably be Gennum's GUIDE IDE.

 

[sze5003]

I like Visual Studio for a lot of what I do (C++ and C#), at least when I'm programming something PC-centric. I also use ADI's VisualDSP++ a fair bit; the overall IDE is pretty good, but has a few annoying bugs. I'm not a fan of Eclipse, but will likely end up using it more often in the future.

My least favourite would probably be Gennum's GUIDE IDE.

Yea for c# I would not use anything else. For now aptana seems to be good. Just have to set my workspace to my www of wamp.

For a backup I used bitbucket and git to save stuff on a private server.

 

[MrColin]

It's more a full-featured text editor that you can extend with packages than IDE, but I'd recommend Sublime Text. Low memory usage, very configurable while still having a nice gui, and supports build systems (like what you sound like you need to get files into your WAMP install). It's free to [indefinitely] evaluate (you'll get a window every ten saves or so saying that you should maybe register that you can hit cancel on).

If you get more into it, the Jetbrains projects are pretty good too. Have used RubyMine and IntelliJ at work and liked both. Found IntelliJ far superior to Eclipse but I mostly write JS, so my day to day needs are far different. Mostly use IntelliJ with the Ruby plugin for Cucumber testing

I'm a huge fan of Sublime Text. I use it for all of my hobby coding needs. (I don't program professionally.) Its the slickest text editor out there for windows, mac, & linux.

 

[clamum]

I'm mainly a .NET developer, so I haven't used very many different IDEs, but I love Visual Studio. God I wish I could use it for Android mobile dev instead of Eclipse.

 

[sze5003]

I'm mainly a .NET developer, so I haven't used very many different IDEs, but I love Visual Studio. God I wish I could use it for Android mobile dev instead of Eclipse.

Try android studio it's built on intelliJ. I want to do android development because my job deals with java but I dunno what to do for android lol.

 

[Graze]

I'm mainly a .NET developer, so I haven't used very many different IDEs, but I love Visual Studio. God I wish I could use it for Android mobile dev instead of Eclipse.

I started working on Android stuff lately and Eclipse is pretty bad.
I worked in Netbeans for a few days prior just porting over my C# code to java before downloading the Android SDK and I didn't love it but boy I hated Eclipse!

When I am more comfortable with the Android seen I would download the Jetbrains based Android Studio.

 

[sunilmkt]

Mostly I used Visual Studio Express to produce .NET code. Intellisense is Microsoft’s way to make programming in .NET as painless as possible.