There are a whole bunch of good OS X apps for coding. As a professional though, I choose the most powerful, and lightest package TextMate. After a small amount of customization you’ll see that no other editor is as fast as TextMate. If you’re looking for something to hold your hand as you code and auto-fill CSS or JS functions… hit the books… this is for the developer who knows how to develop.
minimal design has a couple of excellent additions to the program (as do many other developers, GO OPEN SOURCE) that increase the “out-of-the-box” power of TextMate.
Yes, you can install a local web server in 5 minutes. Mac users rejoice and behold the covenant of MAMP. PC users, see XAMPP.
Any web developer worth talking to will speak to the importance of being able to create a staging site for a project on the fly. MAMP really makes this easy. MAMP Pro is worth it’s weight in gold, because not only can you have a local server up and running in no time, but you can have unlimited hosts easily added with a few clicks. Oh, and you can server it up through dyndns.com, and configure the server modules, and… tumble.
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I’ve been working with WordPress for a while now, and because I’ve become so familiar with a typical WordPress site’s architecture and folder hierarchy, I stopped using the backend media uploaded and opt’d for FTP. As a developer, that’s fine.
But, as developers we build sites for other people; other people who may enjoy the convenience of the backend media uploaded. Don’t they deserve the ability to upload CS in it’s entirety… and more importantly not bother you about it!
The problem:
The solution:
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