Here are the screenshots of all three of them in action. When I say best I’m not saying it in context of “This rocks, that sucks”, I’m primarily thinking in the context of flexibility and the level of options and possibilities each tool comes with. However, I’m sure the experienced developers will agree when I say that FireBug is the best among them, then comes the Dragonfly and last but not least Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. ![]() Since Opera is way to cool to come unprepared, it comes with built in Opera Dragonfly tool. For Internet Explorer there is Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar avaiable at this link. If you are the Firefox junky you can download and use FireBug at this link. Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera have some great tools for us developers. My favorite browsers are Firefox (for development) and Opera (for casual surfing). We are here to write applications that will run and look the same across all modern browsers. People still use Internet Explore, people still use Firefox, Opera, Safari… And who are we to judge on what they should use. So, how to we cope with thing like that? One thing you need to have in mind beeing web developer as I. At some point everything inside our IDE might seem ok, but in browser it breaks. These are the bugs (errors) sometimes hard to detect. This is most likely due to CSS or JavaScript bugs. Sometimes we have some stuff, parts of code, technically written OK but the browser we are looking the page at is showing some strange stuff. Writing and testing the application does not end in the text editor or IDE. Code completion, like the one in NetBeans, can save you some development time. Not to mention the speed of code writing. Especially if you are working on a systems with mixed. ![]() I find that approach somewhat error prone. There are people who enjoy working with nothing but simple text editor. I tried ZendStudio and NuSphere PhpEd but it seemed to me they are no better then NetBeans, which is completely free by the way. Due to Magento’s completely new and rarely seen architecture in PHP open source applications I decided to switch to the NetBeans fully. Before that I was perfectly comfortable using Notepad++ for all of my development. It has commercial IDE’s like ZendStudio, NuSphere PhpEd or lately the open source one like NetBeans 6.5 (still in Beta as of time of this writting).įew months ago I started working on Magento related projects. ![]() PHP however is a completely different game. Visual Studio is all i one tool for a developer. I have said it numerous times and I cant resist saying it again there is no open source or even commercial tool for PHP that can match the power of Visual Studio (for lets say C#). Before getting serious with PHP I played a lot with C# and Microsoft Visual Studio. The biggest minus for PHP if you ask me is the debugging, or shall I say the lack of the debugging. Developing for PHP can be quite a fun, or sometimes quite painful. Since I’m a PHP developer this post will show examples in context of PHP. If you are developer working on a open source technologies then most likely you are using open source or some freeware tools.
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