Essential vB Programs

[Wayne Luke]

Not such a big fan of "Auto-complete" coding. I find it tends to get in the way and slow me down. Plus it usually locks you into a specific set of languages.

I have pretty much done everything I need to code-wise in Textpad... It is a pretty powerful editor and can be configured to act like a pretty comprehensive IDE including compiling and looking up info on particular functions with the press of a button.

Lately though, I have been looking at Crimson which is also free. Might play with it more. Would be nice if there were more IDEs that integrated with CVS though and allowed code rollbacks.

[Tungsten]

Adobe Photoshop CS
UltraEdit
Dreamweaver MX
LeapFTP

That's pretty much my toolbox in a nutshell.

[qxh]

KWrite and Konsole is all I really use.

[Andrew111888]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
Taco HTML
Fetch FTP

That's essentially all I use.

[jamslam]

Editplus
LeapFTP
Photoshop
Hex Color Finder

i love editplus.. seamless MSIE browser with tabbing *drools* (but I also use mozilla.. i like a combination, heh)..

[assassingod]

TextPad
PS7
localhost
My Brain

[Babylon]

My tool set:

• Homesite 5.5 (should never have upgraded from 5.2 though)
• Tortoise CVS
• Putty SSH
• WinSCP
• Adobe Photoshop
• MS OneNote 2003

That gives me just about everything I need.

I didn't think anyone was going to mention Homesite I think HS5 has been rather bad overall sadly. Allaire did a better job. I was lucky enough to be part of the HS5 beta team but they didn't bother listening to our suggestions

I mostly use:

• Homesite 5.2
• Photoshop
• FlashFXP

[Chroder]

Now I'm going to go check out Homesite

btw, just noticed: lists aren't italicized within quotes...

[Tolitz]

I had Allaire Homesite 4.5 before they got bought by Macromedia, and afterwards I got Dreamweaver MX ... primary reason I got Dreamweaver is because it has the familiar Homesite layout option courtesy of Homesite features being somewhat built into it

[Chris Stewart]

I don't do any vB coding, but for my other stuff I use JBuilder, Visual Studio.NET, UltraEdit and Putty.

[filburt1]

I don't do any vB coding, but for my other stuff I use JBuilder, Visual Studio.NET, UltraEdit and Putty.

Instead of JBuilder, check out IntelliJ IDEA. If you're not a professional Java programmer, it might be overkill, but it is by far the best IDE I have ever used for any language.

http://www.intellij.com/

At last check they had a 30-day trial.

[Chris Stewart]

I've heard it is really good, I just haven't had time to check into it. Will do though.

[sabret00the]

• PS CS
• DW MX
• Cute FTP PRO 2.0
• Notepad
• mIRC/Trillian
• SecureCRT
• Araxis Merge
• Internet Explorer (vB.org)

[okrogius]

Edit Plus
Putty
SmartFTP
Photoshop

Those are the ones I use for vbulletin at least.

If you're so interested for a php ide, try nusphere. It's not what I would use imho, but I do think of it as one of the best availible exclusively for php.

[RonH.]

So what programs do you use to code your site?

Mine:
Dreamweaver MX
Crimson Editor
Beyond Compare
Handy File Find and Replace

AceExpert 5.07
AceFTP 2.0
PaintShop Pro 7.04