Free Windows web development tools (that rock)

Lately at work, I’ve been mixing it up with regards to open-source Windows web development tools.

My Windows FTP client of choice (for the moment) is WinSCP because it is just blazingly fast and supports SFTP. With all the nonsense going today regarding secure domains, SFTP is going to be the standard of the future. I’ve used FileZilla and I’ve got to say, it’s simply a slow turtle compared to WinSCP. Sure, if you make the switch,  new software takes some getting used to, but WinSCP is quality stuff. And it lets you designate your text editor of choice, when editing files remotely. Enter Notepad++

Lately at work, I’ve been mixing it up with regards to open source Windows web development tools.

Now I know that quality, free Windows text editors are few and far between (if you need to know the difference between a text editor and a word processor, consult wikipedia). Nonetheless, I rely on Notepad++ as my text editor of choice. There are a wealth of plugins to do web development with Notepad++.

So that’s it, a short list of how to do web development on a Windows machine without Dreamweaver. How much does is cost? NOTHING.

Posted by Jesse on 03/03 at 03:13 AM