Check Out the New Recommended Resources on Nettuts+

Check Out the New Recommended Resources on Nettuts+

on Mar 6th 2013 with 50 comments

We’ve added a new page to the site, which will help coders grab top quality software, tools and gear. It’s filled with our favorite resources that we recommend for developers. You can jump straight over to our Recommended Resources page here on Nettuts+ or read on for further information.

Hand Picked Resources for Coding Professionals

Our Tuts+ editorial team has hand-picked these resources, which feature core applications, hosting recommendations, code resources, web services, and mobile apps. Our goal here is to feature the highest quality, useful resources that we highly recommend, and, in most cases, use ourselves! It’s a quick stop to finding the best of the best when you have an urgent need to fill as a professional developer.

Keep an eye out for more of these site sections as our Resource pages roll out across the Tuts+ network.

Nettuts+ Recommended Resources

Jump over to the Nettuts+ Recommended Resources Page

What Developer Tools Do You Recommend?

This is version 1.0 of this Nettuts+ Resources page. We’ll continue to add to it and grow this section of the site. We could use your help with that!

Are there any awesome apps, tools, gear or services that you feel we missed? Bounce into the discussion below and leave a comment about what resource you recommend to fellow coding experts.

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  • Fred

    The page isn’t there yet. I get a 404.

  • http://twitter.com/NadeemKhedr Nadeem Khedr

    Windows collection is so poor

    • Potado

      And why is Sublime Text only under Mac?

    • Guest

      It seems like they forgot about that section and half assedly put 3 apps in that list.
      Forgot that Sublime Text 2 is cross-platform, LiveReload is also available for Windows. Cyberduck/Filezilla for FTP, AutoHotKey for text expansion and code snippets

      • Euwine

        Not to forget: Scout for SASS/Compass. and mixture.io as CodeKit with more features

  • Patkos Csaba

    I am a Linux guy so I would add some Linux apps there. I use KDEnlive for video editing, Audacity for audio processing, I fix images in Gimp and, not particularly Linux, I develop using the NetBeans IDE.

    • jeff_way

      See above. Once I have a few more recommendations from you guys, I’ll update it.

  • djthoms

    What about Aptana? That is an excellent resource for web development! Also, sublime text 2 is pretty much universal. It available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

    • jeff_way

      I’m not the biggest fan of Aptana, to be honest. If I were to add an IDE to that list, it would either be Netbeans or one of the offerings from JetBrains.

  • Damion Anderson

    Any chance of linux/unix applications? or even cross-platform. For example fire.app by handlino is cross-platform and is a brilliant tool.

    • http://feryardiant.web.id/ Fery Wardiyanto

      yeah! that’s nice idea. There are so many developer who developing their apps under Linux platform too. I’m not a developer (maybe just yet) but I’m Linux user ^_^..

    • jeff_way

      Yes, but I’ll need some help, as I’m not a Linux user. If you guys can, in this thread, give me a list, I’d be happy to add them.

      • Stefan

        how can we help you or get in touch? I am Linux user as well and Damion has a point, the list is pretty much OS X only.

      • dedun

        NetBeans – free,cross-platform
        Komodo Edit – free, cross-platform
        Sublime text 2 – cross-platform
        WebStorm/PHPStorm – cross-platform
        vim – free, cross-platform
        jedit – free, cross-platform
        UltraEdit – cross-platform
        FileZilla – free, cross-platform
        VirtualBox – free, cross-platform
        Calibre – free, cross-platform
        LibreOffice – free,cross-platform
        Skype – free, cross-platform
        TeamViewer – free, cross-platform
        Pidgin – free, cross-platform
        AdobeReader – free, cross-platform
        Gimp – free, cross-platform
        InkScape – free, cross-platform
        vlc – free, cross-platform
        Audacity – free, cross-platform
        Avidemux – free, cross-platform

        With this tools, switching between Windows and Linux is flawless.

      • Rick Hambrook

        Perhaps a Cross Platform section? Sublime Text is available across Mac, Windows and Linux. Also, I’m a Linux user now but PHP Designer is the one tool I miss from my Windows days.

      • karmicdice

        Software for Linux – From my machine:

        1. Netbeans : Perfect IDE (NOT a text editor)
        2. Sublime 2 : Available for Linux (Text editor, NOT an IDE)
        3. Giggle : A Git GUI
        4. FocusWriter : Distraction free writer.

      • wguerrero

        You should create another category ‘multi-platform’ for programs like:

        1. Sublime text 2 (and of course livereload)
        2. Dropbox

        About linux category:

        1. Kazam for screencasts
        2. Netbeans IDE for development
        3. Gpaste for an advanced clipboard
        4. Nitro task a task manager
        5. Filezilla

      • wguerrero

        6. Terra a super terminal!!

      • http://www.facebook.com/jesus.bejarano.948 Jesus Bejarano

        Great that you mentioned it, is like Guake but with more features, very impressive terminal indeed.

      • wguerrero

        I hope they include it in net tuts

      • http://twitter.com/awesomerubai Fardeem Munir

        This is what I recommend for linux:

        1. Sublime Text 2 (text editor)

        2. Yeoman (Project scaffolding, dependency management, testing)

        3. Virtual box (different operating systems)

        4. Filezilla for FTPing but I don’t use ftp for any of my work anymore

  • http://joostschuur.com Joost Schuur

    Definitely add some project management tools like Trello.

    Also, steal shamelessly from this Hacker News thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137

    • jeff_way

      We use Basecamp religiously, so I may add that in.

  • Sitebase

    iTerm2, a must have for the command line lovers

  • http://joostschuur.com Joost Schuur

    Apart from a section with just tools though, what would be great is a structured sequence of skills to master. Something like ‘if you want to learn front end development, start with this (learn here, here and here), then do this, eventually start using this tool or library and then do this’.

  • http://www.andredublin.com/ Andre Dublin

    iTerm2, its Terminal on steriods

    • jeff_way

      Oh that’s not in there? I’ll add it in. :)

  • mattsah

    gitg (linux) and gitx (OS X) are two great and similar applications for working with git repos — Although I tend to use the command line for 90% of work, gitg is really useful when I’ve done a lot of work and want to break it down into smaller commit as you can easily see and stage hunks of code to be committed. So even if you have multiple changes in a single file, but those should be in different commits you can pretty easily put one in one commit and another in another. Very useful for staging!

  • RFGentry

    I would like to know the best SDKs for building Android and Apple apps. Also, its pretty obvious, but Google and Bing analytics might need to be mentioned for web services. No Adobe products made the list?

  • http://www.facebook.com/samuelpiovezan Samuel Piovezan

    I’m using Aptana Studio 3 now, it’s very good! Does it have some problems that I don’t know about that make him not get in the list?

  • http://twitter.com/ccccory Cory Simmons

    It’d be nice if there was a “cross-platform” section, so some poor Windows sap doesn’t pick Notepad++ over Sublime Text, etc. LiveReload is xplat too.

    I’d also like to nominate WebFaction for hosting: cheap; good support; maintains one-click installs for every relevant web language and framework; and automated daily backups.

    Heck, it might be nice if you had subpages for each of these categories so you guys could add as many things as you like to this section without cluttering it. It’d be a nice reference for everyone.

    • Ian Simmons

      lol ‘poor Windows sap’ I’m a sap but yeah I laugh at the though of using notepad++ after sublimetext. Matter of fact I think I’ll go uninstall notepad++ since it hasn’t been used in months :-)

  • Erica Holden

    You have SublimeText listed under Mac apps but why not under Windows apps as well? It is an excellent editor in Windows too!

  • Dimitar Danailov

    All platforms : Neatbeans, Eclipse, Skype

  • http://twitter.com/lorib Lori

    I would add Komodo IDE as an awesome commercial cross-platform IDE and Liquid Web for managed servers. The demo for PhpStorm 6 seems like it will be another great IDE option. Definitely Sublime for daily coding needs.

  • Stefan

    Linux suggestions List, first thoughts?

    git client: gitg
    Terminal Emulators: Terminator or Byobu
    Text Editor: Sublime Text 2
    IDE: InteliJ IDEA CE, NetBeans, Eclipse .. etc
    Screen recorder: kazam

  • http://www.facebook.com/jesus.bejarano.948 Jesus Bejarano

    From a linux user:

    Vim or Emacs.
    Guake.
    Awesome WM.
    Gitg.
    Yeoman.
    FireApp.

    • Rick Hambrook

      +5 for Guake :)

      • Patkos Csaba

        I use it’s KDE version “Yakuake” on KDE and it’s MacOS X version “Total Terminal” on MacOS X.

      • Rory

        indeed. i cant work without it.

  • thebigkick

    Divvy is invaluable for window management on Mac.

  • krike06

    Nice list. Color snapper http://colorsnapper.com/ , Compass app http://compass.handlino.com/ , versions and smartgit or gitbox are nice versioning apps

  • http://twitter.com/stefanocaravana stefano caravana

    OSx user: Phpstorm, sequel pro, sublime2, mamp pro, iterm, transmit, parallels

  • Greg D

    Hello there, i’m a Mac/Windows developer and i often use Fiddler for HTTP sniffing he is a strong tools that have to be present in this list.. He got a lot of features and is very usefull.

  • filip

    Hey. Sublime Text 2 is not only for Mac users and you know it good.

  • Saleh Galiwala

    Multiple Browser Viewer , I guess ,is the best software to test site on multiple browsers.It supports Linux / Mac and Windows .I recommend this software to test your site cross browser compatibility.

    PHP/JAVA/ANDROID Developer.

  • Matthew Knighton

    Media temple should not be in your list of recommendations. Ive found them to be shockingly bad for the grid service and database uptime. I had a series of 500 errors on one site because of the apache server and they told me i had to much traffic – it was an expression engine site that would get at most 20 uniques per day.

    The MySQL database method they use basically doesn’t work. The only good thing the service has right now is atmail.

    There VPS solutions are OK but even then rackspace is 100 times better for that type of hosting.

    I think you need to re consider why you recommend them.

  • http://twitter.com/ThomasGrauer Thomas Grauer
  • shancat

    Sublime Text is cross-platform, yet it’s only listed under “Mac”. Big mistake.

  • Hector Asencio

    I’m a linux user too and I want to recomend all the folks Web Developement Tool package (only for Linux) that have is the most impressive bunch of developing tools for Linux enviroments… you really get allmost everything:

    Database Management
    Gmail checker
    Task Manager
    Dean Edwards Javascript Compressor
    JSMin
    Css Minifier
    Css Type Set Generator
    Css Button Generator
    Cool Button Generator
    Chart Generator
    RGB / HEX Color chart
    VTE Terminal
    WYSIWYG HTML 5 Editor
    Website Analyzer (Yslow+PageSpeed)
    3 x online W3C validators
    ScriptBook
    Customizable menu for other apps

    …and some more. I was really happy when I discovered!

    Is not a repository package (you need to add a PPA) but you can get at here:
    http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/WDT+-+Web+Developer+Tools?content=129726