Programming Environments
I often get asked the question which programming environments I use when writing websites. I guess that is a sound question. At work I use Visual Studios 2005 from Microsoft. At home I use Notepad ++. Here are some links to these and other development environments.
- Visual Studio Express These are the free versions of Visual Studio, there are some differences from the paid version but not many.
- Notepad ++ When I started web programming, a guy told me that you are a great programmer when your programming environment is notepad. Although this is different from Notepad on your computer, I still think this is one of the best programs out there.
- PSPad Another great programming tool. Has a built in FTP client which makes it really nice.
- DevPHP I have heard that this is a good development environment, I just have not personally used it.
- Eclipse And of course the grand-daddy of all free development environments, Eclipse. This is a very configurable environment that will program in any language that you put into it. Highly recommend but might be a little confusing to newbies and way over the top if all you want to do is some web site programming.
These are just a few development environments that I have came across.