What software should I use?

If some of you were to look at my desktop, your mouth would drop wide open and you would say “Do you actually need all those programs?” Well my simple answer would be that each of them have own specific use.

Sure there are some programs that do relatively the same the thing but which little extra features that the other one doesn’t have. Eg. Dreamweaver vs. Aptana. Well Dreamweaver will cost you some money, but on the other hand Aptana is free.

Of course you have the whole religious debate on hand-coding (Notepad++, TextPad, and TextMate) versus WYSIWYG (Dreamweaver, and Frontpage).

Personally, I do most of my programming by hand. The reason for this is Dreamweaver and Frontpage create really messy code and doesn’t allow you complete control over every aspect.

To wrap this little post up, here are some software that you should consider if you are getting into this field.