Web development, what apps do you use?

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Darko

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GreGorGy said:
See above - .NET is by far not the best WEB development software (IMO) and if he is intent on using it, then why buy a mac?

VirtualBox is free - I wonder how well that runs .NET? Does anyone here use that kind of setup (VirtualBox + .NET) in a production environment.
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I work for a company that is firmly entrenched in the MS Dev Stack. I enjoy the company, and I love my work.

I do think that my MacBook is way better then the standard issue Dells that we get. That's why I got one. The only reason why I have Parallels is so that I can run Visual Studio.

Everything else is running off the Mac. Office, Adobe etc.

I think VirtualBox is more than alright. A guy here at work uses it exclusively, and he has about 4 VM's running at any given time. He does have a monster machine though. But that's off his Windows Dev Env.

I am the only one here on the Mac.

I don't see VirtualBox being a problem though on the Mac.
 
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Coda is amazing, Pixelmator is a nice image editor, as is Acorn I hear. Sketch for vector graphics, CSS3 toolkit for CSS
 
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Waansin

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BBedit for code and text. But it is not an IDE in the classic sense.

You have to choose your dev tools based on your language and workflow requirements. For me, PHP and Javascript are best handled in an incredibly good text editor (BBEdit) and a REPL style flow with Vagrant.

Some people swear by an IDE like PHP Storm.

Don't forget about options like: Textwrangler, Text Mate 2, Coda, or Sublime Text.

Let's leave out all the Java based IDE's. Yes, they can be very powerful, but can they really be considered native?!

I also use Koala for compiling SASS and the Github client for my source version control needs. Also, Gimp for image stuff - it's gone native and no longer requires X11 to run.
 
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