Apps: Best two IDEs to use with Linux Ubuntu

Posted on 07. Jun, 2009 by Dragos in Apps

When I was working on a Windows based OS, I was using Adobe Dreamweaver to do all coding in CSS, JavaScript,PHP and more. Switching to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope I found out that Dreamweaver was not working anymore with this OS. So I discovered two wonderful IDEs that help me a lot!

Quick and efficient! Geany!

Geany screenshot in Linux Ubuntu 9.04

Geany is a small IDE to help you with quick tasks and fast improvements to your code. When I need to make some corrections to one of my documents I always use Geany because it loads fast and so it parses any code (be it CSS, HTML, PHP…).

Geany supports a lot of programming languages (full list). It has also support of many languages. Geany is a very good replacement of Notepad/Gedit, if you’re still using these. (Official Geany website)

Best for big ‘n complex websites! NetBeans!

NetBeans screenshot in Linux Ubuntu

NetBeans is indeed a very good alternative of Adobe’s Dreamweaver, if not even better. It has support of major web development programming languages, such as PHP, CSS, JavaScript, HTML. What I like at NetBeans is that it has all features needed for fast website production. NetBeans supports syntax highlighting, PHP & JavaScript debugging, Code Navigator (displays a tree of elements contained in the document; look at the bottom left corner of the screenshot above), really quick Code Beautifier, Plugins and many more features I still haven’t tried. The only missing feature is the ability to wrap code when long lines, but I got used to living without it. Both Geany and NetBeans are free to use. (Official website of NetBeans)

                    
                    

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