Re: Best development platform? Mac, Windows or Linux?

On Oct 25, 2:43 pm, 703designs <thomasmal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Windows is inferior as a development platform because you lack al of
the useful Unix tools and you'll be using very different file
permissions from those on the server. Cygwin provides some of these
tools, but you're stuck on the Cygwin part of your system, and you
can't readily compile Unix software (new development tools, etc.).

Mac or Linux is the way to go. I'm on a Mac because I'm a web designer
and couldn't live without Photoshop et. al.

Thomas

On Oct 24, 7:29 pm, Alex Weber <alexwebe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 22, 6:08 pm, Jeroen <jer...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 22, 4:00 pm, la...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

As many said it really doesn't matter.  I use Linux and wouldn't
switch, but that is my preference.  There are many development tools
for a LAMP developer, I use Quanta which is part of the KDE library of
applications.

With Linux being first a programmer's and server OS and next a general
use OS, there are plenty of advanced development tools freely
available and commercially for Linux.  It is a breeze to get the LAMP
webserver going for testing on the deveopment system - most of it is
selecting PHP, MySQL and Apache from the repository, installing and
then setting passwords (all of about 20 minutes including download
time).

I develop both on Mac and PC, but personally I like Mac more because
it brings you all de *nix power and a smooth GUI interface. As
Development platform I prefer Eclipse (PHP environment) which is cross-
platform and, most importantly, has intellisense and dynamic modelling/
learning of your PHP classes. You can also at debugging and tons of
plugins (Javascript, CSS, ...) into it.

Regards,

Jeroen

I've always used windows and don't see how I'd benefit from using any
other platform...
The only weakness as far as I see it is the lack of a powerful out of
the box cmd tool like bash but there's open source/free alternatives
out there and I've managed just fine with GUI-equivalents.

That said, I consider myself a windows veteran and i've been tweaking
it and messing with the registry and completely anhilating
installations for over 10 years now, so I have it tweaked to the
limit, i know the ins and outs very well, and basically im 100%
comfortable with it.  (at the risk of sounding arrogant but really its
just a matter of taking the time to use google and try to fix things
that you dont like) I don't see myself using any other platform in the
near future.

As for tools: XAMPP + Dreamweaver + Filezilla and working on adding
SVN to the suite.  I alternate between MySQL and SQLite depending on
projects, and I've tried a few other PHP IDEs (nuspehere phped,
eclipse, netbeans and phpeditor) and I guess Dreamweaver's grown on
me.  Also, I have an extensive list of registry tweaks and
customizations that I apply (for example keeping the API up to date,
getting rid of spry (poor man's jquery/dojo/proto/yui) and I don't use
any of the "wizardy" stuff like the embedded FTP client and widgets
and stuff.  I realize that I might lose time but I like having 100%
control.

I've tried to switch to *nix in the past (Ubuntu and Kubuntu) but I
guess I'm too used to windows and more importantly, i can make it do
whatever i want :)

as far MACs, i see the advantage but I gate the bells and whistles
(although you can probably turn them off i suppose) but it just feels
too "dumbed-down" for me....

Alex



Hi,

I'm using Windows(IDE: Eclipse, phpDesigner, Putty, etc.) with Samba
share on Linux, where main Web-Server running. Don't have any problems
with this so far. One thing you cannot do is debugging, because
machine running scripts is remote. But, that is also often true for
Linux, because developing machine is rarely identical to remote one.
IDE's have often very helpful features: syntax check on-the-fly,
debugger, code hints, etc. Eclipse is working fine under Windows and
Linux, but it's may be tricky to get it working.

As mentioned here, use what is comfortable for you, but also try
something new, you may be surprised. I've seen developer using Kate
for PHP developing and they are happy with it.

.

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