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Ask HN: What tools do you use for Web Development?

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I have around 1 year doing web development (PHP/JavaScript/CSS); over the time, I made my list of software I use to boost my productivity:

- Microsoft Expression (to edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript and to design graphics).

- Firefox (with FireBug and other extensions).

- Stylizer (Great tool for CSS design)

- Abyss Webserver + PHP5 + Mysql

- Google Chrome Developer tools

It's not extensive. I'm new to the web development world and I found the process of building a website from A-Z a little bit confusing.

I wonder what solutions HN users here are using; I'm looking for a complete set of software you use to build, debug your website (serverside + client side).

Just curious to know how you are working, if you can also, please specify (MAC, Linux, Windows...) and Thanks :D

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A lot of different stuff, but the things I depend on the most for actual work and direct OSS offshoots:

Snow Leopard, Ubuntu server & VMs, XP VM (using VirtualBox)

Ruby, Haskell, Python, Javascript

TextMate, vim

git, gitx, git gui, vcprompt

bash

homebrew

postgresql, pgadmin

rvm

jquery

sass, compass

gemcutter, github

linode

chef

google apps

photoshop, illustrator

Firefox w/ firebug, firecookie, firequery, firerainbow, the web developer toolbar, cookie culler, user agent switcher, live http headers; webkit nightly dev tools; iPhone simulator from the iPhone SDK

Thanks for pointing out firequery, as I hadn't seen that before. Looks pretty neat

I run OS X.

On the web development side of things, I use Django for my job and some of my more complicated personal projects and Hyde to generate a couple of smaller ones.

## Basic Stuff

- Terminal for a command line

- zsh and oh-my-zsh for a shell, with a whole lot of personal customizations (especially the prompt)

- Quicksilver to save my sanity

- homebrew to install various things

- pianobar and iTunes to play music (I'm also looking at dhun now though)

- Visor to keep pianobar out of the way but easy to reach

- Dropbox to sync some stuff between machines

- Time Machine for backing up

## Writing Code

- TextMate for editing anything but CSS

- CSSEdit for wrangling CSS

- Fluid instances for previewing

- Firefox to check how stuff works with Gecko

- Pixelmator to make/edit some very basic graphics (I'm not a designer)

## Handling Code

- Mercurial (just the CLI) with BitBucket and/or Codebasehq for version control

- Git and GitHub to create git mirrors of some things

- t and/or BitBucket/Codebasehq's issue tracker to keep track of quick tasks

- Transmit for the rare, rare occasion where I need to SFTP something somewhere

- Fabric for automating deployments and other small tasks

## Communicating

- Fever to manage my heaping pile of RSS feeds

- Tweetie, Adium, Mail.app to stay in touch with people

- Colloquy for IRC

- Skype for voice/video calls and screen sharing

Design: Photoshop CS3

Code: Aptana Studio

FTP: FileZilla

I just downloaded Stylizer... going to try it out.

Good that you downloaded it, follow the tutorial and let us know how you feel about it.

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Ruby on Rails/JavaScript/CSS

- JQuery

- VIM

- git

- Gimp

- Xara Extreme

All the usual suspects, plus Komodo and XAMMP.

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