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This is not directly related with Appgini so Ahmad feel free to delete this if you want. I just wanna publish some other software i think everyone could use combined with Appgini and maybe find some new and usefull. All are free software so no copyright or advertising here.
For testing on local machine and see if everything work fine i use Xammp: apache, php and mysql all in one and some other few usefull stuff. You can find it here http://www.apachefriends.org/it/xampp.html
For edit all php and html file i use Komodo edit: it's a free text editor that support a lot of major programming language, with color suggestion and formatting helps, it can be found here: http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit
For image editing i use HeliosPaint: image editor i think very simple but complete for simple html editing images, and free too. You can find it here: http://www.heliospaint.com/
Maybe you know some other usefull software for our application develop so let me know, i'm always looking for something new

Hi Sergio, I do a lot of Web page design and find IrfanView invaluable for images. It's been downloaded 66,388,504 times from download.com alone and there were 107,365 downloads last week. (Helliospaint 989 total downloads) I think those figures speak for themselves. Keep in mind that IrfanView at 1 megabyte, is limited, but it's super fast and super efficient. It isn't exactly a paint program but it does everything else.

http://www.irfanview.com/

For a text editor I use Notepad++ 1,748,000 downloads on Download.com making it one of the most popular. Komodo Edit - 10,859 downloads

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

I use WAMP it's my personal choice and that's all I can say about it. If you're happy with XAMP, stick with it.

Pixie. A mini tool that stays on top of everything. it tells you the Hex and RGB colour of the pixel under your cursor. great tool. At 11kb it must be one of the smallest exe files around!

http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php

WinMerge: Compares two files side by side. Priceless when you need it!

http://winmerge.org/

FileZilla: Great FTP software.

http://filezilla-project.org/

All worth a try.

Thank you for posting these tools ... here are 2 more that I use all the time:

Keybreeze from http://sourceforge.net/projects/keybreeze/ is a true time saver ... it allows you to assign a shortcut command to URLs, folders, text/code snippets, programs and files ... etc ... and you can access them all using a single keyboard shortcut .. you don't even need to remember the shortcut commands you assigned .. just type part of the command and keybreeze would auto complete it. The program is really awesome so please do give it a try.

The other great tool is Ditto. This automatically stores anything you paste into your clipboard and allows you to reuse it later and search your clipboard history, all from a single keyboard shortcut. You can download it from http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

Both tools are free and open-source. If you like them, please consider a little donation to their developers. They deserve it.

Hello

I do all my work on a Mac and use the following software:

BBedit by Bare Bones Software for text editing, file comparison etc. grep pattern matching and so much more.

Since a lot of my work also involves just html pages at times I use Dreamweaver for html editing and a few other tasks - more for the visual look than anything else.

I run my own local testing server on a Macintosh Mini with Snow Leopard Server Software 10.6.8

Then I use phpmyadmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php) for sql database creation and control

For ftp I use, on my Mac, Forklift. Easy to use but mostly due to the easy interface.

When I just need to use Windows for testing and to run AppGini I run Parallels on my Mac and am using Windows 7. This is also where AppGini resides to generate the code.

At the end of the day or just for stress relief I will either crank up Quake 4, Dirt 2 (a driving game) or fly a plane using X-Plane. Just pull over either the steering wheel and pedals, or the yoke and full flight controls and drive a car, shoot aliens or file a flight plan and go for a flight. Then I am ready once again to sit down and pull my hair out trying to get a piece of code to work. (You probably noticed the lack of hair in my picture - now you know why - grin). If I want a lesson in humility I play a first person shooter game against my son who wipes the floor with me most times.

Alan

shasta59 wrote:At the end of the day or just for stress relief I will either crank up Quake 4, Dirt 2 (a driving game) or fly a plane using X-Plane. Just pull over either the steering wheel and pedals, or the yoke and full flight controls and drive a car, shoot aliens or file a flight plan and go for a flight. Then I am ready once again to sit down and pull my hair out trying to get a piece of code to work. (You probably noticed the lack of hair in my picture - now you know why - grin). If I want a lesson in humility I play a first person shooter game against my son who wipes the floor with me most times.

I like that! Thanks for the Mac hints ... I'm no Mac guy (so far) but I'm sure they're helpful for Mac fans.

With all the time that has passed do you all still use the same tools or have you found alternatives?

kgeorge wrote: ↑

2025-04-23 13:35

With all the time that has passed do you all still use the same tools or have you found alternatives?

That's a very old thread ... Some tools I'm using recently

• ChatGPT: Very helpful for planning new features, code inspiration (though needs careful review), and many other daily tasks
• Docker: Super helpful for quickly setting up and testing various server configurations and environments
• VSCode: Super efficient code editor with tons of plugins
• SnoozeTask.com is a simple planning tool that I've developed recently for very simplified task management
• Github and git command line for source code management