Re: Wchich software should beginner use?

From	"Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Wchich software should beginner use?
Date	2011-05-03 09:53 +0200
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El 02/05/2011 20:12, Petey escribió/wrote:
> I'd like to ask what kind of additional software should I use.
>
> I use Eclipse for development and apache for server hosting. What
> else  should I learn that might be useful in future - related to DB's,
> programming, comparison.

The first obvious piece of software is a decent GUI tool for your DBMS: 
HeidiSQL if you use MySQL; SQL Developer if you use Oracle; SQL Server 
Management Studio Express (cough cough) if you use SQL Server... 
although Eclipse probably includes one. I've seen too many people 
fighting with crappy web interfaces. It's very important to know that 
SQL is an independent language and can be debugged separately (again, 
I've seen too many people that post their PHP code when they get a SQL 
error).

I've also found file compare tools pretty valuable. In Windows I use 
WinMerge but there're many alternatives.

I'd also suggest a real Usenet reader such as Thunderbird or Opera. 
Google Groups web interface is possibly the worse Usenet reader ever 
written. Once you get the software, you can ask for a free account at 
http://www.eternal-september.org or the Usenet provider of your choice.

> Should I start using git or svn?

Absolutely! Version control software is a must: you can't do serious 
development without it. The difficult bit is which one you should pick 
because nowadays there're many possibilities out there.

What's your operating system? GIT is an excellent piece of software but 
it's basically designed for Linux and its GUI tools for Windows are not 
very good yet. On the contrary, Subversion itself is quite a mediocre 
tool but it has first-class applications on Windows. Perhaps you can 
evaluate Mercurial as a compromise between GIT and Subversion.

> Please provide me some useful tips and tricks :)

Learn to use the official documentation! In particular, many newbies 
tend to replace the PHP manual (which is superb) with random Google 
searching.

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Wchich software should beginner use? Petey <efrinut@gmail.com> - 2011-05-02 11:12 -0700
  Re: Wchich software should beginner use? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-05-02 23:51 +0200
  Re: Wchich software should beginner use? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-05-02 21:54 -0500
  Re: Wchich software should beginner use? "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2011-05-03 09:53 +0200

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