23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
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23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
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Re: 23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
#2cocoamysql and phpmyadmin can easily be replaced by navicat or navicat lite (free), which is available for linux, osx, and windows. ive found it pretty handy.
Re: 23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
#3> For those Mac users who think BBEdit is better than Textmate, it’s usually because BBEdit is a Cocoa application, and TextMate is a Unix application.
False. TextMate is a Cocoa app and BBEdit is Carbon.
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#4Forget MAMP. Install Vmware Fusion and run your server environment of choice in a local virtual machine.
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#5Forget MAMP. Install Vmware Fusion and run your server environment of choice in a local virtual machine.
I've thought about this. How do you transfer files between the host and the guest? Do you develop in OS X, transfer the files and then run them? If yes, isn't this a little time-consuming?
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#6I found this list a little contrived. These tools are not ALL essential, are they?
No mention of source control, either. Yikes.
Re: 23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
#7Forget MAMP. Install Vmware Fusion and run your server environment of choice in a local virtual machine.
I've thought about this. How do you transfer files between the host and the guest? Do you develop in OS X, transfer the files and then run them? If yes, isn't this a little time-consuming?
Just about all of the text editors on the Mac that are oriented towards web development have support for automatic sftp/ftp/scp of files to a server, so use that route. The virtualization tools also support sharing folders/directories with OS X, so you could use that path but since the eventual goal is deployment to another server using the sftp option means that going from testing to deployment consists of changing the name of the server you are pushing to.
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#8Forget MAMP. Install Vmware Fusion and run your server environment of choice in a local virtual machine.
I've thought about this. How do you transfer files between the host and the guest? Do you develop in OS X, transfer the files and then run them? If yes, isn't this a little time-consuming?
This sort of setup is great for working out server configuration kinks during development. To do it right, you need an editor with remote file support and a way to interact with a remote process.
Lisp development in Emacs supports this setup.
Re: 23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
#9Forget MAMP. Install Vmware Fusion and run your server environment of choice in a local virtual machine.
I've thought about this. How do you transfer files between the host and the guest? Do you develop in OS X, transfer the files and then run them? If yes, isn't this a little time-consuming?
You can mount your VM locally by running something like Samba on the VM side, then open stuff normally with TextMate or whatever.
It's a bit slow and has some quirks with huge projects, so I stopped doing it, personally. Mounting with ExpanDrive or MacFuse(SSH) were slower when I tried.
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#10I found this list a little contrived. These tools are not ALL essential, are they? No mention of source control, either. Yikes.
I agree. I'm not convinced that many editors are essential. I only use emacs...
It seems to be written by someone just getting into the world of development and they're excited about it. Not particularly neat for us older hackers.
AND, phpMyAdmin is not a mac app...