Comments on: Web Developing in Linux

By: madcama

madcama — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:01:27 +0000

And i do not think via wine.

By: madcama

madcama — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:00:21 +0000

Do anybody knows some replacement for adobe flash?

By: Slacker 12.2

Slacker 12.2 — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:15:22 +0000

My editors of choice:

Geany – it’s fast, lightweight, supports many languages, and has good features!

Crimson Editor (Windows) – just like geany but it also has built-in ftp.

And about XAMPP..
I would still prefer the LAMP style because you install/configure them individually, thus giving you more security if you know what I mean.

^__^ Linux for life

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:27:54 +0000

@The Dozy Kraut, Ah yes I use that one all the time. Can’t believe I forgot it.

By: The Dozy Kraut

The Dozy Kraut — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:09:34 +0000

I highly recommend Chris Pedericks toolbar for Firefox http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ it is full of handy shortcuts

By: CB

CB — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:18:09 +0000

I sympathise with those people referring to the fact that most people will see one’s site in IE.

I usually edit my (pretty basic) sites with Kate. I use compliant code and CSS as best as I know how.
I look at them on Linux with Firefox, Konqueror and Opera.
THEN… I check them out on a Windows machine in IE.
At that point I usually think “What happened?! It looked good before.”

When I first got two puters on my desk (Nix and Win side-by-side going to the same monitor) I was most appalled at the look of sites on Win. I actually thought I must have stuffed up the display settings on the Win machine, e.g. set a size/resolution that the monitor didn’t really like, or something like that.

I’m not talking about crossbrowser issues or CSS layout here – just the quality of the appearance of fonts and typography.

Maybe Mark or some visitors here know more about this, but it seems to me that Linux had given me unrealistic expectations about how pretty my pages/fonts/layout will look on another OS.

Another way to put the question: has Microsoft, despite all its resources, never grasped the basics of rendering fonts nicely in a browser?
Surely that can’t be true.

By: Setting up SSHFS

Setting up SSHFS — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:38:52 +0000

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By: Migrating to Linux in 5 Steps

Migrating to Linux in 5 Steps — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:13:19 +0000

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By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:34:40 +0000

I’d rather develop and Linux and run IE with virtualization before I would ever even consider using Windows for development.

By: aleron

aleron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:29:12 +0000

I have always preferred Linux platform, however, for Web Development I have found it necessary to test all page elements in Internet Explorer on Windows – that’s what most of the visitors are using – so in the end the whole setup was redundant.