Being a developer, one of the tool that I use on a day-to-day basis is a text editor (or you can call it IDE). I used to love Dreamweaver, but I find that it is too heavy and doesn’t work well on Linux. Then I switched to Aptana (it was very resource intensive as well), followed by gEdit, and lastly Geany. In my opinion, Geany is one of the best lightweight text editor (for Linux) out there. Then Scribes comes along.
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Scribes: A Lightweight Yet Powerful Text Editor For Linux
By | September 8, 2011 | 10 Comments
4 Great Online Editors For Web Developers
By | September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Whether you’re a professional web developer or someone who maintains their own website(s), chances are you do most of your work on a desktop or laptop. Which makes sense, seeing as how there are any number of great web development tools for various operating systems.
But what happens if you need to make some changes to a site or design and are away from that desktop or laptop? And what do you do when you’re using a tablet or a device like a Chromebook? Since you’re developing for the web, there’s no reason why you can’t turn to the web for help.
It’s worth checking out one of the number of web-based code editors out there. They range from simple editors to full-blown integrated development environments (IDEs).
Let’s take a look at four online editors for Web developers.
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Transform Gedit Into A Web Developer IDE
By | December 29, 2010 |
gedit is the default text-editor in Gnome based distro. To many, it may seems like a normal text-editor with no special functions (just like notepad in Windows), but for those regular users, they will swear by it and marvel at how powerful and versatile it can be. With its plugins system, it can easily transform itself from a basic text-editor to complicated and powerful programming IDE. Here’s how you can do it.
Note: For this tutorial, I will focus mainly on HTML, PHP and CSS since that are the web programming languages I used. You can modify it to suit your needs.
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Aptana Studio: A Worthy Replacement For Dreamweaver
By | March 23, 2009 |
I have been a great fan of Dreamweaver. Even after I migrated to Linux Ubuntu, I still diligently use Dreamweaver (under Wine) for all my coding projects. To say the truth, running Dreamweaver in Linux with wine is not a great experience after all. At times, its performance can be lagging and the font and interface can be rather ugly and unmatching to the whole OS theme. The only reason that I am still using it is because I have not been able to find a worthy replacement for it. Quanta Plus, bluefish, geany, Netbeans, Eclipse, I have tried them all, and in my opinion, they are either not as good, or as user-friendly as Dreamweaver. That is until I found Aptana.
