http://aptana.com

(Caveat: I mostly do PHP work). I personally use Eclipse the the PDT plugin. I see ActiveState’s Komodo Editor is going open source though.

Both work on both PCs and Macs; I like to use the same tools across platforms when possible.

http://macbigot.blogspot.com/search?q=demo-ware

Hi Lawrence – Well, I wasn’t actually trying to review the software. If you noticed, I was listing a “suite of open source solutions” that cover the bases for me.

Mentioning the old PCs I knew and loved back then wasn’t trying to prove I was smart, just OLD.

And my take on WWD isn’t that it is a bunch of instructions at all which is what makes it so useful. I think it gives a nice balance of reviews, tips, personal anecdotes, ideas, heads up on news, and pointers to things that could make any of our work easier.

My schtick isn’t reviewing software – I’m not SMART enough for that. I talk about what I’m actually doing day-to-day in my Web working life because that’s what I know. I’ll leave the actual reviews or How-To’s to the smart ones here. ;-)

Huh? That sort of defeats the purpose of webworkerdaily, doesn’t it? The whole point that you think you can not read instructions on programs as complex as the Gimp because it should just work, apparently like magic, kind of makes me wonder why you would bother to write articles on webworkerdaily telling us… what?… exactly? How to do things that might not be apparently intuitive?

I think I see why you are a Mac user. To make token references to “PC’s” by drumming up relic machines with floppy disks is, I’m guessing, some attempt to deflect any criticism of your smarts. I hope I’m wrong. I hope you didn’t just get enamored with the cute Mac sneaker commercial and are an Apple fanboy/girl trying to garner our respect with outlandish statements that you shouldn’t have to read the instructions.

Whenever I hear these “should just work”, “should be easier”, “why does it work this way?” remarks, I can’t help but hear my Apple fanboy friends voices echoing in my head – full of opinion and future-ideas, but unable to work in the present without a cute interface or hiding all the “advanced” options from them.

Come on guys. This was a bogus article. You could have given us a more substantial review of these apps and your experience of them. I admire your effort to be free of licensed software that we are all bound by, but if you think your softball review here is going to convince anyone to leave Dreamweaver or Photoshop (the millions of people who have read the instructions, plus bought a half-dozen books on them, also), you’ve got another thing coming.

http://www.getpaint.net/

Ah, buyer’s remorse…

But yes, NeoOffice is a good Mac Office substitute. And I think you get a big discount on iWork ’08 (like half price or something, which takes it down to $40) when you get a new Mac too, and aside from unfortunately using the Quartz codec for .pdf export, iWork is an even better alternative.

That Quartz export really grinds my gears though, to quote Peter Griffin… It renders any PDF you make basically worthless on anything but another Mac — I mean, come on Apple! WTF were you thinking? Why even bother to create a PDF export that no one but you can open!?