I am a big advocate of Open Source.... until... I use an
IDE!
Yes I know lots and lots of people use Eclipse and like it. I have used it, but it always seems to get in my way when I have projects scattered through a network! Also I keep conflicting with Eclipse on how I want my directories to be structured!
I am not knocking Eclipse because it is good IDE and would recommend it to anybody. What I am saying is that an IDE is a personal thing and Eclipse wrt to project management does things that I cannot cope with.
Note: I have looked at NetBeans, but can't get used to its way of implementing intelli-code.
For daily production coding I use three for-pay IDEs:
1) Komodo: Great IDE since I do quite a bit of dynamic language and XML coding.
2) X-Develop: I code
Java (
Servlet's,
JSP's), and .NET on multiple platforms (Windows, OSX, and Linux).
3) Visual Studio: Yes I hear the hisses and booo's, but Visual Studio has a great HTML and JavaScript editor! And with the release of Visual Studio 2005 they FINALLY clued into the idea that you want to create your own directory structures.
Christian
[ February 23, 2006: Message edited by: Christian Gross ]