Bought an iMac, now what?
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- mekk0
Why did you switch to mac? Use Aptana or NetBeans for your Web Projects.
OpenOffice? Please..
- Boz0
I hate when people shit on things they don't know how to use.. it just shows them as retarded, angry, uneducated and other things..
As many Apple fanboys, they live in the 2000 world where Dreamweaver was generating some automatic shit and the hate comes from that period. In reality they have no clue what DW is capable today but as any asshole they have an opinion on it. It blows my mind really how someone can be retarded like that..
It's funny though, it mostly comes from uneducated Apple fanboys who only got to use one thing and they can't shift away from it.
I fucking hate people like that.. EDUCATE yourself and then your opinion might count for something. That goes for both you animatedgif and ernexbcn.
Now when I'm done addressing ignoramuses.
Seeessess, listen, I told you to try Dreamweaver for several important things that they do better than almost anything out there.
1. Code Editor is fantastic. I write stuff by hand too. I barely ever use WYSIWYG aspect of it (but it does come in handy so many times because you can select elements in an html page super quickly instead of running through the piles of code). Auto-completion, tag collapsing and grouping, parent/child tag selection, HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP and other things in an editor are just ace. It helps A LOT writing code and saving time.
2. FTP and site management is probably the best I've seen. FTPS and FTPeS support.
3. For static sites, you can define Library items and Templates. If you build pages, you can mark a segment of your code as library item and just drag and drop it into the new page you are writing as library item and later when you want to update everything site-wise DW will do it automatically for you. This works for code, for CSS, for HTML elements, for images etc etc.. Insanely helpful and tremendously saves time.
4. DW can now generate Android and iPhone apps directly from it via PhoneGap
5. Live support for JQuery Mobile.. you write it and you see it appear in the live preview as an app. Already mention, fantastic CSS editor with auto-completion and CSS media queries and templates.
6. Direct access to databases.. Connect directly from Dreamweaver to mySQL, SQL or other databases and see all fields, drag and drop them, do queries to see data in a property panel and so much more. I can't tell you how valuable this is when building database driven sites. It doesn't matter if you use CodeIgniter or other PHP frameworks, you really don't need a 3rd party app for just quickly looking at your database structure, it's insanely useful.
8. As far as compatibility debugging and previewing pages it comes with W3C validator, integration with Adobe BrowserLab right in the editor that allows you to view your page and then see how it would look emulated if you ran the same page in IE, FF, Safari and all different versions of browsers on different platforms without the need of having those browsers running on your machine. Not to mention it has live preview/view that is being rendered by webkit engine now so you can see changes immediately as you write code rendered by webkit.
9. Multiscreen support, asset management, complete site loca/server synchronization, File cloaking, Version Control (check-in/check-out) etc
And so many other things that make you so productive, fast and just joy to write code but also design.
I have used all editors from Textmate to Coda to Aptana and man.. nothing comes even close to Dreamweaver and how fast i do shit there and how much it helps me do stuff as you write really.
- You should get a job selling man :o) Good info though, in all honestly I gave up dreamweaver years ago...seeessess
- ... but haven't even looked at it since. May be food for thought!seeessess
- I am with Boz on this one. Tried Coda and TextMate, even Espresso, still nothing was as versatile as DWscruffics
- calling other people uneducated retards because they have an opinion just makes you sound like a prickmonospaced
- You fail to make an argument without generalized insults and it makes you seem no better than those you beratemonospaced
- 3030
I use Aptana Studio 3 on Mac and switched over to Visual Studio 2010 and Web Developer Express. I wish there was a Mac version :|
- Continuity0
For webdev:
Coda (not free, but fucking worth every penny)
MAMP (PHP/MySQL)
FileZillaDone and dusted.
- mamp any better than xampp then?seeessess
- It's effectively the very same thing, except on a Mac platform. XAMPP is Windows-only, if I recall correctly.Continuity
- cool, will give it a blast, thanks :o)seeessess
- Oh, no I'm wrong. XAMPP does run on Mac OS.Continuity
- I know, I already have it running (see first post)seeessess
- animatedgif0
- how can you even give an opinion when you never used one.. If you have you'd understand how big of an idiot you are.Boz
- you are. Try using something before you actually even comment on it. Fool. TextMate.. LOL.Boz
- I code shit by hand, no need for a fancy text-editor. But thanks anyway Boz.seeessess
- haha Dreamweaver, come on I can't even take you seriously when you use that turd.animatedgif
- Boz you are a buffoon.ernexbcn
- the only 2 idiots who say DW is bad is you two.. Have you even used Dreamweaver for coding.. if not STFU because you are clueless.Boz
- only person who uses it in this thread is you. So it's 2 against 1 mate. I used Dreamweaver when I didn't know betteranimatedgif
- monNom0
windows 7
badump -ting!
- animatedgif0
also:
The Unarchiver - unarchives .rar/.sit/.7zip etc
Soulver - Excellent calculator with a revolutionary UI
LittleIpsum - Generate lorem from the menu bar
Homebrew - Package management
Adium - IM Client
Paparazzi - Takes full screenshots of webpages
Perian - Video codec pack
GlimmerBlocker - System wide ad blocker- Perian - Video codec pack....
LOL,ApeRobot - He's a joke anyway you look at it.. What year are you living in? 2000?Boz
- calm down boz, was mom late bringing your chocolate milk to the basement this morninganimatedgif
- Perian is good if you want to use Quicktime as a player, what's the problem?ernexbcn
- also helps to cross-encode things. Not sure why the hateanimatedgif
- Perian - Video codec pack....
- dMullins0
CODA (http://panic.com/coda/) or Textmate (http://macromates.com/) ... I prefer CODA for the built-in FTP utilities.
MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/en/index.h...
CrossOver (http://www.codeweavers.com/prod... to run IE6/7/8
For productivity, here are some bookmarklets you might find familiar/useful:
- nice one, thanks for the links!seeessess
- love those from your last link - thanks!alicetheblue
- NP! Glad to help. Needed to get them in one permanent place where I wouldn't lose them one day. Hah.dMullins
- comicsans0
Screenflow
Tinderbox
WireTap studio
- jaylarson0
- Interesting. Going to give this a test drive...dMullins
- This looks like it could be cool.Continuity
- I'll stick to a normal text editor, thanks anyway.seeessess
- I enjoy the "Dreamweaver killer" linebrandon_phillip
- yeah, if you like text editors for coding, i'd skip this too. i've tried this a bit and things are decent, so far.jaylarson
- autoflavour0
now what? prepare to be told your a hipster by Boz
- ernexbcn0
I prefer TextMate http://www.macromates.com even though we are waiting for version 2 like gamers waiting for Duke Nukem Forever.
I use vmware fusion for IE testing (I have one instance of Windows XP with snapshots of IE6,7 and 8. Another of Windows 7 with IE9.
Transmit as sftp/ftp client. http://www.panic.com/transmit
A good git client is Tower http://www.git-tower.com/ and a good subversion client is Versions http://versionsapp.com/
- Hombre_Lobo0
seeessess-
"I'm a front end developer, but can handle some back-end stuff too"player player!!
- I design too :o) I'm great with potatoshop.seeessess
- He's usually the receiver,
*I heard*Jaline - Or do you mean "up the ass"? I'm a bit slow tonight :Dseeessess
- lol mate! i didnt mean 'impressive skills', i meant up the ass! heheHombre_Lobo
- In need of some back-end-development Hombre? ;o)seeessess
- < just realised you are a he, I was sure you were a lass :Sseeessess
- Boz0
Sequel Pro
Coda (though DW CS 5.5 is currently the best editor hands down for everything)
Coda Notes
Transmit
XAMP
AS2/AS3 flash development if you don't want Adobe stuff - FlashDevelopMobile dev:
Aptana 3 / Appcelerator Titanium (Aptana is based on Eclipse)
XCode 4 / iAd ProducerProductivity:
Alfred (quick launcher and search)
FileShuttle (quickly share your screenshots with others and works with your own FTP)
Font Explorer Pro 3.0 (best font manager on OSX)
Evernote (note taking, research tool and more.. great and works across all devices, computers etc)
SnapzPro X + Finger Sim (for presentations and video screen capture)
XMarks - synchronization across Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE browsers no matter what platform you are on.- Oracle's VM Virtual Box for emulation of Windows on OSX.Boz
- Interesting looking list, thanks man, will take a look.seeessess
- lol @ dreamweaver being "best editor"ernexbcn
- boz you think evernote is safe to store passwords?inteliboy
- Well I dont' like saving passwords in 3rd party apps so i wouldn't do itBoz
- I guess anything that deals with remote access and stuff and sends your data to the cloud is not really great idea.Boz
- k thanks. will look elsewhere...inteliboy
- TheBlueOne0
Put it on craigslist and buy a PC
- get out of the cult while you canTheBlueOne
- Got 3 pc's alreadyseeessess
- moran.set
- TheBlueOne0
I tried the whole "apple" experience. Realized I overpaid for hardware and then had to spend close to a grand for software to replicate what I could already do for free. Their "geniuses" knew less about the machines they sold than the Pakistani guy in the little dingy shop on the corner who fixed my PC within a day for next to nothing knew about PC's.
That said, the build quality on the the machine was excellent and it was shiny and I got nods of approval from strange people in Starbucks with other Mac Books.
Then I came to my senses and went back to a PC.
- <- BOOM. explodes threadTheBlueOne
- HonestyGeorgesII
- You must be doing something wrong, there are lots of good open source soft for OS Xernexbcn
- But it looks lovely in my kitchen ;o)seeessess
- sounds like bullshit to me. you spent $1k on software? i don't buy it.dMullins
- oh the sheer ignorance...set
- Really TBO? What kind of software comes free on the PC that costs $1K on a Mac?monospaced
- ernexbcn0
Who the fuck still uses DreamWeaver? you might as well still use FrontPage too.
Jesus.
- Bozseeessess
- ernexbcn.. have you used DW to the full extent? Do you even understand or know what it's capable of? If not STFU noobBoz
- go back to your TextMates and text editors.. idiot.Boz
- lol Boz mate why are you do angry?set
- STFU set, you NOOB! You don't know shit about DW. Hahahaha.monospaced
- seeessess0
Jeez, chill out people. It's only a computer which needs some software so I can build websites in my kitchen/diner. Got pc's already (x3), with 1 being my main web-dev machine. The main pc is upstairs though, and it's a bit unsociable me being up there all the time when my wife & son are downstairs.
Those who posted links and advice, I really appreciate them, thanks!
- p.s. the reason I went mac was purely the aesthetics of the machine which fitted in with my kitchen/diner just lovely.seeessess