[DM-MUG] Apples in the Enterprise

[Chris Van Cleve]

For our web site we use both MS Access and MS SQL on the backend, with 
IIS running ASP on the frontend. (Well, for another year anyway. heh) 
For our Intranet we're running MySQL/Apache/PHP on Mac OS X XServe. It 
also connects to and uses our enterprise systems which are run on MS 
SQL 2000, Oracle 9i, FileMaker Pro, and some flat files.

For development tools, I retired Dreamweaver late last year. I simply 
cannot use a WYSIWYG editor anymore because of the massive amounts of 
server-side includes and PHP OOP code. Nothing can render it but a 
browser hitting a live server. My editor of choice, at present, is 
skEdit. (I picked it over Text Wrangler, BBEdit, and TextMate) I have 
made several suggestions to the programs' developer to make things a 
bit nicer for PHP authors (if you code regular HTML or Cold Fusion this 
app is perfect) and he is considering them, and is in the process of 
adding some of the features already. I urge you to take a look at it if 
you're doing web development.

The other development tool I couldn't live without is CSSEdit. It is 
extremely useful if you're developing a standards-based site.(Style 
Master is also good, but CSSEdit has that Made for Mac feel that it 
lacks)

For database work, I find myself using MySQL Administrator and 
phpMyAdmin predominantly for my MySQL work, and Aqua Data Studio for 
all of my other databases and when I need to link MySQL to the others. 
Aqua Data Studio is free, although I would pay hundreds for it, it's so 
useful. OSS rocks!

For my graphic work, I rely mostly on Photoshop CS, however I dabble 
with several other apps as needed. (I miss ColorIt! terribly)

Chris VC


On Apr 12, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Chris Rinehart wrote:

> Hello
> I dont use any of the x serve macs at work but I do have two G4's that 
> I do image manipulation and web design. I started with the Mac+ that I 
> got at U of I surplus for $150. I also use Pc's and can not believe 
> how un-intuitive they are. I have all of them set up with the task bar 
> at the top though.  The site I work with is over 300 mg and 3000 pages 
> of art. I am still trying to attach style sheets to it all to make it 
> a little more manageable. Do you use an SQL data base for your web 
> work? I know that dreamweaver has a lot of features in this area that 
> I dont use. Regards Chris
>
> Someday you will find that there is a difference between wanting and 
> having.
>
> http://www.kavanaughgallery.com
>
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