Mac OSX Applications

Recommended Text Editors

• TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.

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Recommended Local Server Program:

• XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

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Windows Applications

Recommended Text Editors

• Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Get Notepad++

Recommended Local Server Program:

• XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

Get XAMPP