Developent Environment on a Mac

OREGATO

Hi guys,

I've recently purchased a Macbook Air and would like some advice on setting up a dev environment for it.

I'm coming from a background of Windows so had the likes of XAMPP, Netbeans and notepad++.

Does anyone out there do web development and works on a MAC?

If so, can you share the tools that you are using and the experience of programming on them?

I mainly do web development (PHP)

Thanks in advance!

Will

boblong

Hey,

Your mac already has Apache and PHP almost ready to go, but if you like you could have a look at MAMP.

For text editors, OSX has vim and emacs by default, but there are other great alternatives like Sublime Text, Textwrangler and a million others.


If you're coming from windows, take a look at Terminal.app and the advantages you could gleam from a command line environment. Remember that you're using a Unix system now and that brings a lot of flexibility.

Creamy Goodness

xampp is running fine on my mba here running lion, but i prefer the standalone installs of mysql/php/apache myself.

as for a text editor i use smultron or text wrangler. both are good and are free.

cusackd

Server: XAMPP

FTP: Built in file share

Editor: Coda great little editor well worth the dosh so don't crack it.

stesh

OREGATO wrote: »

Hi guys,

I've recently purchased a Macbook Air and would like some advice on setting up a dev environment for it.

I'm coming from a background of Windows so had the likes of XAMPP, Netbeans and notepad++.

Does anyone out there do web development and works on a MAC?

If so, can you share the tools that you are using and the experience of programming on them?

I mainly do web development (PHP)

Thanks in advance!

Will

Everything you could possibly need is most likely in MacPorts. once it's installed, you can just run

port install apache2 php5-suhosin mysql mysql5-server

to install your LAMP (or is that MAMP?) environment.

OREGATO

Thanks guys,

I've managed to get MAMP working and it is running fine.

Also, I've set up a VM using Virtual Box to Windows 7 Ultimate so have the best of both worlds where required.

Hopefully I won't need the VM at all, but it's nice to have either way.

Performance wise, I haven't really done anything to strenuous on the Mac yet, so I haven't seen any lag or anything, hopefully it'll keep that way

Thanks for the help. I'm sure I'll have a few more questions as I go.

Creamy Goodness

vm box will come in handy for testing ie9 and depending how far back you want to go the other IE's too.

yutta

My setup is as follows:

Dropbox set up on server and local machine which syncs/versions/backs-up files automatically.

Komodo Edit for HTML/PHP/Javascript

Firefox/Firebug

VirtualBox for testing IE

MAMP/LAMP/WAMP with manual file transfer is a pain - do it all on the cloud!

OREGATO

yutta wrote: »

My setup is as follows:

Dropbox set up on server and local machine which syncs/versions/backs-up files automatically.

Komodo Edit for HTML/PHP/Javascript

Firefox/Firebug

VirtualBox for testing IE

MAMP/LAMP/WAMP with manual file transfer is a pain - do it all on the cloud!

Thanks yutta! Very helpful.

When you say the manual file transfer is a pain, how would I go about doing it on the cloud? Can you give me some helpful links etc?

sorry, still learning as I go

Creamy Goodness

if you're going to do the drop box route i think you'd be better off paying for a github account and save your projects that way but hey that's just me.

actually, you should use git on your mac anyways, they have a great GUI based application.

Colonel Panic

If you're going to use Windows as well as OSX, I'd recommend Mercurial instead of Git. Mercurial on Windows is a bit less of a pain than Git and their feature set is similar.

stesh

Colonel Panic wrote: »

If you're going to use Windows as well as OSX, I'd recommend Mercurial instead of Git. Mercurial on Windows is a bit less of a pain than Git and their feature set is similar.

But github

Colonel Panic

stesh wrote: »

But github

BitBucket is the same sort of thing, although I will admit, it's not as pretty. I just use it for backing my stuff up although lots of employers look for people who blog and publish code on github et al.