Which program do you use for coding?

[madskl]

I was thinking about trying to switch out Dreamweaver with something else that is a lot more coding related. Even though in CS5 there are a lot of features in DW it still doesn't feel like a piece of software to code in.

So I was thinking I would get some suggestions here. I've seen some programs that actually have the black background with colored codes - how well is that for the eyes for longer coding runs?

I'm primarily doing PHP, HTML & CSS.

[ViZioN]

Notepad++ and the command line (Y)

[LaP]

I'm using Aptana Studio and also Notepad++ for quick editing.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

notepad++ for PC

Kod for MAC

[BoneyardBrew Member]

Notepad2 for HTML and CSS. I think it looks better out of the box compared to Notepad++.

I like something that just works.

[Duncank]

I'm using Aptana Studio 3 beta for everything. Most of the times I work online with Aptana, so edit straight on the server. When I don't FileZilla does the trick.

[Julius Caro]

Dreamweaver --> Any web design coding

AVR Studio --> C or Assembly on Atmel products

Quartus II --> VHDL

Eclipse --> Java

LabVIEW --> G-code

RSLogix 5000 --> Ladder Logic for Allen-Bradley PLC's

MATLAB --> whatever the hell that language is called

MS Office --> VBA macros

Just a few of the apps I had to use in the past year.

The VBA editor is one hell of an outdated mess. Though I both like and dislike how it warn you whenever there is something wrong with the line you just entered.

[eliokh]

notepad++

Netbeans

[VGVL]

Coda.

[Squirrelington]

on Linux, I use nano.

on Windows, I use notepad.

[team_NOOB]

Should turn this into a poll.

I didn't realise there were all these other alternatives.

[Glen]

Netbeans for PHP

Visual Studio 2010 for ASP.Net

Microsoft Web Expression 4 for web design

Notepad++ for scripting and other light work

[paxa]

visual studio 2010 for .net development

flashbuilder 4 for flex

eclipse-php-helios for php development

notepad++ for javascript and other

[gigapixels Veteran]

VS2010 for .Net

Notepad++ for everything else

[Prince Charming]

Visual Studio for pretty much all code, and Blend/Web for interface stuff. This applies whether I'm developing for desktop, web, whatever. Just works great :)

[DrJohnSmitherson]

Notepad ftw!

[DigitalE]

Notepad++ on Windows and Espresso on Mac :)

[Jombi]

Notepad

Netbeans

JGrasp

pico <3

Unless you're doing immense projects, you shouldn't have that many errors. Especially with php, html, and css. Notepad is fine... Notepad++ is kewl cause of the formatting, that's all.

[madskl]

Thanks for all the inputs. I had no idea there would be that many different programs.

Going to try out some different ones doing the weekend. Just installed Coda and Espresso on my MacBook - Still undecided which of the two i like the most.

On my PC I did some tweaking in Dreamweaver CS5, and I actually think i kinda started to like it "again".

[ncc50446]

Most of my programming is done in Netbeans (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS) on Windows and Linux. Eclipse was good, but used a little more resources I found.

For quick fixes, I use Programmers Notepad 2 for Windows, and GEdit for Linux.

[A.Gabri]

on Windows Notepad++ with FTP plugin & Zen Coding Plugin, Komodo Edit & Aptana Studio are nice too

on Mac Coda or Textmate

[riceBox]

Just using

Notepad++

Visual Studio 2010

Eclipse

[lalalawawawa]

Visual Studio for pretty much all code, and Blend/Web for interface stuff. This applies whether I'm developing for desktop, web, whatever. Just works great :)

+1 for this. :)

[WindowsFanatic]

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on Windows 7 Ultimate.

[team_NOOB]

Ok so I've switched back to deeamweaver now.. Simply because coda lacks some basic functionality. Well it might have it but I'm yet to find a workaround but basically if you want to highlight a paragraph of text and wrap the <p></p> tags around it you can't do it by pressing something like cmd+shift+p.. In deeamweaver u can.. Same goes for links or any other tags..

[Cupcakes]

Ok so I've switched back to deeamweaver now.. Simply because coda lacks some basic functionality. Well it might have it but I'm yet to find a workaround but basically if you want to highlight a paragraph of text and wrap the <p></p> tags around it you can't do it by pressing something like cmd+shift+p.. In deeamweaver u can.. Same goes for links or any other tags..

You might want to research a little more into Coda. You can actually create clips and text inserts! :)

I know it might not be fun having to add it all but hey, better than nothing.

http://rathersplendid.net/home/coda-clip-library-for-html5

http://coda-clips.com/ <-- best one really :)