Comments on: What’s in Your Toolkit?

By: John C

John C — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:55:39 +0000

I seem to be the lone mac user on this page.

Textmate
Adobe CS3
phpMyAdmin
Code Igniter (!!!!!)

Firefox

I should qualify I only use Firefox for Javascript debugging. It’s slow as molasses on a mac (on a PC too though IMHO) - Camino is my browser.

I don’t unit test or use version control. I grew up a minimalist and never found a use for either of them.

By: dhtmlgod

dhtmlgod — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:12:37 +0000

Visual Studio (2005 & 2008)
Refactor! Pro
TestDriven.NET
NUnit
NCover
NCoverExplorer
SVN
Trac
TortoiseSVN
VisualSVN
RedGate SqlCompare
RedGate SqlRefactor
nAnt
CruiseControl.NET

By: m0n5t3r

m0n5t3r — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:27:42 +0000

so much for my formatting… forgot xdebug + Kcachegrind :)

By: m0n5t3r

m0n5t3r — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:25:26 +0000

* Firefox
* Firebug
* Web developer toolbar
* Opera
* bzr
* trac
* vim
* NERDTree
* snippetsEmu
* Linux-vserver
* Apache, mod_php, mod_python
* Mysql, Postgresql

By: pixelsoul

pixelsoul — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:21:06 +0000

Firefox
- Firebug
- Web developer toolbar
- HTML Validator
Eclipse + PDT
XAMPP / WAMP Server
Virtual image of IE 6
IE 7
Opera
Winmerge
CVS / SVN
Photoshop
Notepad ++

Just about anything that can help me in one way or another :D

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:23:09 +0000

Believe it or not Wyatt,

Desk
Chair
PC
Mouse
Keyboard
Monitor

By: jazzslider

jazzslider — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:31:13 +0000

I think I work the opposite way…I try to do unit testing with PHPUnit whenever I can, but the really crucial factor for me is version control with Subversion, especially when I’m adding major new features; it makes it loads easier to keep multiple concurrent working copies running so that I can test the new feature set on a local testing server without accidentally uploading it to the live site and breaking everything.

Also indispensable in my book:

xDebug, with a little help from WinCacheGrind
xampp, as a really easy testing server distribution
Something to help visualize the differences between two conflicting versions of a file (I use PSPad for this)
Firebug!
Firefox Web Developer extension
Various Adobe CS programs, most notably Illustrator and Photoshop

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:43:05 +0000

possibly…

if you are working with other developers then version control is invaluable. im not dimissing it out of hand, as there are benefits but i found none to my liking.

most of the time, working myself i just dump everthing to a different folder on a separate harddisk ordered by a timestamp. i suppose if i were working for a large company etc then i would be using version control but that isn’t the case.

is it a best practice? certainly but does everyone follow all best practices? doubt that, why i said that unit testing is more important than version control;

to some degree you can live without it, but you can’t live without those tests… from my perspective, it’s the lesser of two evils.

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:59:24 +0000

@Dr. Livingston: really? I would think having solid version control is at least as, if not more important than unit testing. Being able to rollback mistaken changes, possibly discovered by your tests, is a very cruical ability.

I should note that I actually keep my word documents and such in a version controlled repository. But I am on the lunatic fringe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:11:44 +0000

PHPUnit, Version 3.x is what I can’t live without. Subversion is great but not a priority in my view, if like me you are a lone freelancer.

Unit testing is a must though; You are otherwise negligent without it.

Dr Livingston,