As a professional web developer i tried alot of software, this results in a great deal of expertise & experience with the most common design tools. In this post i will list the software i am currently using to create our websites.
First of all, all the developers at Digital Base work in a linux environment. All of our workstations are running an 64bit build of Ubunty Gutsy 7.10. So if you are hoping for a listing of windows software, you could stop right here, although some of the tools we are using have a windows version.
Because we all (or at least most of us, *wink* @ Jan) like "eye-candy", we are using Compiz Fusion on a Gnome Window Manager. The advantage of this package, besides having a kickass desktop environment, is you can set shortcut keys & customise almost every aspect of your user interface (maximise toggle buttons, window positioning etc..).
We develop all our websites on a LAMP platform (LAMP : Linux Apache MySQL PHP), it speaks for itself these packages are installed on all workstations for local development & debugging purposes. As for the programming we are still using Zend Studio 5.51 (the linux binary), this very nice (but never updated) IDE gives you the needed functions like :
Next to that we're using the popular webbrowser Firefox with a few interesting developer plugins like Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug. To test the applications in IE webbrowsers we use an RDP connection to a virtual machine or Windows Server, or use the IE4Linux binaries to check/improve how a website looks when rendered by the IE engine.
So there you have a basic insight how we do things, i'll make sure to complete this list as we're using alot more tools, but my time is limited
First of all, all the developers at Digital Base work in a linux environment. All of our workstations are running an 64bit build of Ubunty Gutsy 7.10. So if you are hoping for a listing of windows software, you could stop right here, although some of the tools we are using have a windows version.
Because we all (or at least most of us, *wink* @ Jan) like "eye-candy", we are using Compiz Fusion on a Gnome Window Manager. The advantage of this package, besides having a kickass desktop environment, is you can set shortcut keys & customise almost every aspect of your user interface (maximise toggle buttons, window positioning etc..).
We develop all our websites on a LAMP platform (LAMP : Linux Apache MySQL PHP), it speaks for itself these packages are installed on all workstations for local development & debugging purposes. As for the programming we are still using Zend Studio 5.51 (the linux binary), this very nice (but never updated) IDE gives you the needed functions like :
- code completion
- syntax highlighting
- debugging capabilities
- code assist
- source/code templates
Next to that we're using the popular webbrowser Firefox with a few interesting developer plugins like Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug. To test the applications in IE webbrowsers we use an RDP connection to a virtual machine or Windows Server, or use the IE4Linux binaries to check/improve how a website looks when rendered by the IE engine.
So there you have a basic insight how we do things, i'll make sure to complete this list as we're using alot more tools, but my time is limited
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