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What software do you use for your WordPress related needs?
Please state your OS.
On windows XP I use:
Other things which I don't use regularly, but would like to use more - xaamp (local version of WP) - github/SVN (a version control system for my files)
What about you?
OS Windows 7 x64
Firefox Portable those plugins won't run themselves
WordPress plugins
I use both Mac and PC. Here are my respective toolboxes:
I have a personal subversion repository on my server (Mediatemple dv)
For both platforms:
For PC (Vista Home Premium):
For Mac (OSX):
xdebug (the best way for write great source and see the hints of WordPress, maybe deprecated functions) and also the possibilities of WordPress, like constant WP-DEBUG
/** Debugging WP */
define('WP_DEBUG', true); //enable the reporting of notices during development - E_ALL
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true); //use the globally configured setting for display_errors and not force errors to be displayed
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true); //error logging to wp-content/debug.log
define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true); //loads the development (non-minified) versions of all scripts and CSS and disables compression and concatenation,
//define('E_DEPRECATED', true); //E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
more about my toolbox in this post , but current I use PhpStorm as IDE, also GitHub as Repository.
Inside WordPress I use the plugin Debug Objects for a lot of jobs in the debugging content.
I used a PC until last year and now Mac and PC so here are mine:
That's about it.
I deleted Flow (FTP client) from my list and replaced it with Transmit (FTP Client) which is a much better tool. Thanks for the great recommendation @John P Bloch!
I run on Ubuntu (always the latest version)
I like to keep things as simple as possible
My tools of choice:
Geany for writing code
Filezilla for FTP
Gimp for slicing and dicing designs prepared by my design team (who run Photoshop/Illustrator on Windows)
Dropbox for sharing files between developers/designers
Googletalk and skype for chat/voice comms between developers
A white board for planning
And testing in Chrome, Firefox on Linux and for Windows: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IETester (for IE) which I fire up on an ancient Windows XP PC I call my 'deadbox'
Currently Using: Mac OS 10.6.7
WebApps
Deprecated (for me) Windows Software
Windows Software using in Virtual Machine
I'm on Ubuntu 10.04:
OSX:
Vmware Fusion for development machines:
Anyone can download "for free" any LAMP, Python, Django etc prebuilt VM from http://turnkeylinux.org
On my PC:
On my Mac
I'm developing on ubuntu (currently running 10.04).
For wordpress development, I use:
My strategy when developing plugin hosted on wordpress, I develop that plugin on eclipse's workspace and create symlink from trunks to wp-content/plugins. That way, I can manage my plugins better.
This is a nice thread. I use many of the same tools as above and on windows and linux flavors. Maybe the ones that I use specifically and not mentioned:
Not many have listed the things they use on the customer end of things so I thought I'd share my list:
I also use this Yahoo pipe I made to monitor WordPress security issues and releases and I like to use Ideone for quick testing of code snippets.
Operating Systems:
Tools:
Firefox Ext:
I think i've covered the important (can't live without) ones.. :)
On Windows XP I use:
I use Windows 7 for development and the following tools:
I just use Netbeans php ide,heidiSql,FileZilla,Firebug and Web Developer. Question,is there a similar tool like PHPXref?Some other widnows app?
Well most everything is covered here:)
So I will list stuff that isn't, most this is for Windows.
Agent Ransack its grep for windows and it's free.
NexusFont free font manager for windows, simple has no really good advanced tagging:(
Xenu link sleuth broken link checker, crawler and site maps, amazingly fast.
iBBDemo iphone and ipad tesing
VirtualBox Virtual boxes!
Poedit For translating code/stuff and making .mo/.po files.
CamStudio make vids for clients.
Vector Magic the magical world of vectors, not free but well worth it
Collorzilla for firefox, can't work without.
Ruby backup for linux/osx
Whenever Gem ruby cron tool
on OSX:
I've always liked to keep things pretty simple.
I really should learn about GIT/SVN etc, but haven't needed it so far.
Most of my tools have already been listed, so repeating them won't add to this discussion any, but some ff extensions not mentioned before that I find useful are:
I'm on a mac.
My main editor is Dreamweaver CS5, Dreamweaver's had a bum rap in many developer's eyes I think but it's improved a lot in the last few versions. For WordPress dev then the latest CS5 release brings direct support for working with WordPress as well as greatly improved PHP auto-completion so it's a pretty nice coding environment, as well as offering some pretty handy tools for those with a more visual development leaning.
I'm working on OSX but it's pretty much the same on Win or Mac really. Dreamweaver does also offer Subversion integration but personally I prefer to use either Cornerstone or Versions on Mac to deal with SVN.
I try to keep things simple and separated.
I run a Ubuntu server with Apache, MySQL, PHP to use exclusively for testing and hosting work-in-progress for review by others.
Tools on my Mac (development machine):
I'm surprised no one has mentioned BBEdit yet.
I made the switch from Windows to OS X a year or so ago and the one thing that I couldn't find was an editor that just felt right. I finally settled on BBEdit and have not looked back. There are so many layers of functionality within it, which I am enjoying discovering.
W7 / x64:
On Mac OSX 10.6.8