Tetrahedra » Tools http://tetrahedra.co.uk Digital design and development Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:47:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A few of the tools I use http://tetrahedra.co.uk/a-few-of-the-tools-i-use/ http://tetrahedra.co.uk/a-few-of-the-tools-i-use/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:54:05 +0000 John http://tetrahedra.co.uk/?p=63 I have had a MacBook Pro for a few months now, and I’ve found a few favourite tools for WordPress development. I’m open to other recommendations, if there’s anything you’ve found particularly useful.

Development Environment

  • XAMPP provides me with the right Apache and MySQL environment for my test sites. It makes it easy to use the WordPress one-click install into this environment.

Coding

  • NetBeans is a useful IDE for manual coding of WP themes, CSS and plugins. No Intellisense or anything terribly clever (idea: wouldn’t it be good to have a sort of Intellisense for WP template tags built into an IDE?).
  • Firebug is an excellent utility for debugging CSS and markup issues in Firefox.

Image and photo editing

  • Gimp for Mac is good for image editing. It appears to be a clone of Photoshop and it takes a while to get used to the way it works – I’m still at the early stages of learning how to use it.
  • iPhoto comes with the Mac and is good for quickly editing and cropping photos…
  • …but I think I prefer Picnik.

Copying to Live

  • Cyberduck is a good FTP tool specifically written for the Mac.
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