web development on OS X
There is some long time since i posted, but i had a very limited time in last month. Meanwhile I managed to buy myself a mac, I always wanted one. So now i’m in a little kind of dilema. What tools to use for webdeveloping ?
My area is PHP, Javascript - Mootools at most, xhtml,CSS, and some design.
So, for design part, I choosed CS2, for the server side I choosed MAMP - for windows users is almost the same with WAMP, it installs php,apache with a mouse click..(well, almost), for ftp I use ForkLift which is pretty close to Krusader, even with less, lot less features
But, the main problem for me remains the editor.
I come from linux world, where I spent a lot of time…so Quanta is what I really miss, with Krusader as file manager, and all the little add-ons like Kdiff for example, that allowed me to make some operations in a very easy and time productive way.
I have tried lot of editors
Textmate - all the people say it rocks, but i did not manage to find a code browser for it, or i did - some extention, but did not like’it. And autocomplete I had to press escape several times until i get what i need, instead of opening a dropdown near the cursor, too choose from. Maybe if any of you know how to do this, or knows a good “noob” tutorial for textmate, it will convince me.
I tried others like Smultron, Webscripter, KomodoEdit - which is pretty nice, but is too much resources eater - my mac is a g4, 1.33 -, Aptana, same problem as KomodoEdit,and some others i don’t remember right now
What i choosed are skEdit, and Coda, but i like skEdit more, as is less heavy for the system than Coda.
Maybe a more experimented mac user, can suggest a better setup, for people like me, who are trying to use a mac fr web development.
Thanks
Coda is the best web editor for Mac.
http://www.panic.com/coda/
… look at jEdit, BBEdit and NetBeans. The last one seems to be pretty decent wtih PHP ( but it might be a resource hog )
And there’s alway vi ;-)
… forgot: try IntelliJ, though I’m not sure if and how it supports PHP
@yobird : yes, i agree, the only thing i miss is a good autocompletion for it, and all the pretty effects eat some resources
@tb: i tryed BBEdit, looks relatively nice, except on my machine is so slow, i wonder why
thnx for replies guys
Hi !
Did you try Aptana as editor ? I use it on my mac and my pc : it’s a great dev platform.
It’s based on Eclipse and is free. You’ve SVN client, jaxer, doc, colorize, autocompletion on JS, php and CSS…
You have some things to install after the main package, but you’ll find tutorials on web.
One other thing : the one thing I hate on MAC is the keyboard : you don’t see “[” & “{”… it’s just an habit to take but it’s not easy at start…
It’s my own advice… and now I have the habits :)
@tb
intelliJ..i heard from it but, and even try it, but is so slow in my mac.
@ Guiltouf
yes i tried…is slow, I must admit I don’t like to wait for editors to make my auto-complete…and as u said in second comment, is the habit we need to fight to when we change our tools. Sadly this is reflected in productivity.
For now, I don’t manage to hit right keys on my linux machine - an Hp laptop - and still launch the Spotlight trying to autocomplete some stuff.
Anyway, to be honest, now kde3 seems a little ugly…osX is really beautiful. only if I could manage to add Quanta to it, I’d be very happy. Last night I tried to compile fink - and it failed, and i do not have the patience to retry…
I’ll make a last try with kde from 4.1 mac repository, and if not….donno.
we’ll see, I’ll keep this post updated.
PS. I’ll try again aptana :), who knows… Can you suggest me what else should i install for it, as u said in your comment?
Thnx again for replies
I’ll keep this post updated
Hi,
Just dropping a line to say that there is always the TacoHTML software that does a pretty good job.
Cheers