vBulletin Hackers: Productivity and Development Tools for vB Projects

10-29-2006, 10:43 AM

vBulletin Hackers:

Please describe your development environment. How to you plan, organize, design, and execute your projects?

What software tools do you use? What processes do you have in place to streaming vBulletin development projects and turn out new plugins, extensions, and modifications?

Source code repository? Code editors? IDEs? Graphics software? Bug/ticket management? Other?

Ken Iovino · 10-29-2006, 04:21 PM

I've been using Crimson Editor because of there FTP feature. I can save the file right to my server without the use of FileZila or other similar FTP programs, though one thing I found annoying is I work really fast and use TONS of keyboard shortcuts. So I'll add a line of code, ALT+S (Save and Upload), then Alt + Tab to my browsers and hit F5 to refresh. Sometimes Crimson don't like that and just ends the program out of know where.

Nick R · 10-29-2006, 04:23 PM

I use dreamweaver for PHP and Frontpage for (X)HTML purely because I don't like DW's colour coding. And to upload I use Smart FTP.

Ken Iovino · 10-29-2006, 04:31 PM

I've always disliked Frontpage, mainly because when I first used it, the generated code was never XHTML compliment, could have changed since I last used it. I just type the HTML and PHP from memory. I need to find some more tools to use. Mine are getting old and boring again. :p

Nick R · 10-29-2006, 04:33 PM

I'm pretty sure it still doesn't generate XHTML complinat code but it auto-closes tags which I find pretty helpful. XHTML isn't to hard to do manually either so it's not really a big blow. I'm in the same boat as you.

Brent H · 10-29-2006, 04:42 PM

For HTML-ish stuff, I use a combination of Dreamweaver and notepad.

If I'm doing vBulletin template edits, I absolutely use Dreamweaver so that it's easier for me to see what goes where. Otherwise, I generally stick with notepad.

I use FileZilla for my FTP software

As of now, I don't quite have a consistent method for building my sites... The process is pretty organic.

Code Monkey · 10-29-2006, 04:46 PM

I use editplus for everything.

10-29-2006, 05:01 PM

I like UltraEdit.

Nick R · 10-29-2006, 05:02 PM

I used to use that then lost my license key and discovered dreamweaver. A good point about UE is that it loads fast.

10-29-2006, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by rogersnm

A good point about UE is that it loads fast.

Yes - that's why I don't like the bulky editors, although I do use DreamWeaver from time to time when I don't want to worry about coding the HTML manually. However - I rarely ever do that any more.

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