At 7:21 PM -0400 8/27/09, [email protected] wrote:
Don't get me wrong--Dreamweaver is a great tool that I use it every day for both HTML & PHP, but I know how to hand code and I never, ever work in design mode. I like it for its organization, synchronization, and code completion abilities (I'm an awful typist).
I use GoLive for exactly the same thing. However, Adobe dropped GoLive so I bought DW. Unfortunately, DW doesn't cut it for me -- it's like GoLive, but less.
So, I am moving to Eclipse. It has a steep learning curve and does things a bit different, but is well worth the effort. Plus, I can use if for other development (i.e., JAVA). In addition, it's free and doesn't depend upon a cost/benefit analysis of some corporate management types to remain in existence. No longer will I find myself painted into a dead-end as I have been in at least a dozen different languages and IDE's because the brain-dead majority of users didn't buy it.
Besides, the web has become sophisticated enough to support some very professional tools and we need to keep up if we are to remain competitive. As Will Rogers once said "You may be on the right track, but if you don't move along you'll get run over."
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