[thelist] Development platform
Simon Willison
cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Wed Sep 17 04:02:12 CDT 2003
Tom van Gemert wrote:
> I am currently trying to figure out my ideal (web/multimedia)
> development platform, therefore I would like to know what you use and
> what your preferences are. Thanks.
I'm not sure what you mean by "development platform" - are you talking
about server technologies or productivity software?
For productivity, I favour UltraEdit from www.ultraedit.com - it's a
powerful general purpose text editor which includes internal support for
both FTP and SFTP (as well as a million and one other features). The
SFTP support is particularly useful, as it allows you to open a file
directly from a secure FTP location, edit it and hit "Ctrl + S" so save
your changes straight back up to the site - great for making small
tweaks (provided you're confident you aren't going to mess everything up!)
For server side technology, I stick with the open source LAMP[1]
options. I'm currently switching focus from PHP and MySQL on Apache to
PostgreSQL and mod_python on Apache. Python is a beautful language to
work in, but has the disadvantage that there are a dozen or so competing
web frameworks written in it none of which quite do what I want them to.
As for multimedia, my design talent approximates zero but when I really
need to create a few images I tend to use Fireworks or Paint Shop Pro.
Cheers,
Simon Willison
http://simon.incutio.com/
[1] Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP/Postgres - www.onlamp.com
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