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I bought a web design magazine this morning, something I almost never do. It's proving entertaining, and also providing some padding for the site where I'm hitting my head on the desk as I continue to try to make Flash cooperate.
It's got a cover disk, though, with "19 essential web utilities" on it. While they all look pretty pointless to me, it's provoking me to ask of the webbish folk out there: what tools do you use?
I'm currently using Dreamweaver MX 2004 for the bulk of code development - it has tabs, decent code formatting, and code snippets. It also comprehends Cold Fusion, XML, XSL, CSS and the other odds and ends I write in.
Graphics are handled in Imageready CS, mostly for slicing into good old-fashioned tables, and occasionally for updating images - although with two excellent graphic designers on call, I don't do much with that.
XSL is handled in XSLerator - I've yet to find anything to match it, down to its options to use different rendering engines.
Versioning is in Microsoft's Sourcesafe, Passwords in Password Safe. PDFs are made in Adobe Acrobat. Instant messaging is via the delightful MSN, and email is in Eudora. Workflow and job queuing are in UltraApps IssueManager, heavily customised.
So what do you use?
It's got a cover disk, though, with "19 essential web utilities" on it. While they all look pretty pointless to me, it's provoking me to ask of the webbish folk out there: what tools do you use?
I'm currently using Dreamweaver MX 2004 for the bulk of code development - it has tabs, decent code formatting, and code snippets. It also comprehends Cold Fusion, XML, XSL, CSS and the other odds and ends I write in.
Graphics are handled in Imageready CS, mostly for slicing into good old-fashioned tables, and occasionally for updating images - although with two excellent graphic designers on call, I don't do much with that.
XSL is handled in XSLerator - I've yet to find anything to match it, down to its options to use different rendering engines.
Versioning is in Microsoft's Sourcesafe, Passwords in Password Safe. PDFs are made in Adobe Acrobat. Instant messaging is via the delightful MSN, and email is in Eudora. Workflow and job queuing are in UltraApps IssueManager, heavily customised.
So what do you use?
So today has been a day of free stuff, or very cheap, at least. Yesterday, someone phoned me from the company (Carphone Warehouse) where I bought a phone something over two years ago - I've been paying them for insurance ever since, despite never having made any claim on it. They were working with the actual phone company (O2), and offering me an upgrade deal. For €20 and a contract renewal with O2 for a year, I could get a new phone (Nokia 6610i) and a free MP3 player (Leadram 128Mb). And they'd courier it to me in work. So I agreed, and lo, it arrived around four this afternoon, and it was good. The phone is nice - nothing remarkable, except for general outsnazzing my old phone - and the MP3 player has been dubbed Meeces, which some people will understand. It's also a USB drive thingummy, which is good, because I had recently decided I need one.
And then I came home, since the Mortals game had been cancelled, and found a set of new cards from vistaprint.ie waiting for me. They're rather nice, full colour, and have my name and contact details and "dukestreet.org" on them, and will be useful. And they were free, and I only had to pay for shipping.
And then I came home, since the Mortals game had been cancelled, and found a set of new cards from vistaprint.ie waiting for me. They're rather nice, full colour, and have my name and contact details and "dukestreet.org" on them, and will be useful. And they were free, and I only had to pay for shipping.
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