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Why Macs became trendy among Web Developers?
One thing I'm just not seeing anyone make an argument for is this is definitely not the case if you do any real research on the differences. Windows people are trained to think that in general, Mac is far more expensive. In general Macs ar…
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Why Macs became trendy among Web Developers?
@andy_unleash Macs don't have an advantage over PCs when it comes to hardware. If anything PCs win that department because for any given amount of money you can have a more powerful PC than Mac, and also PCs are easily upgradable. Therefore th…
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Why Macs became trendy among Web Developers?
The new iMacs are a thing of beauty, and for about a grand (GBP) you get an amazing display of true colour, a fast processor and 8gb ram. This is more than enough to run the average workflow of the average person in this industry comfortably. Gra…
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What is the "best" text editor for Mac?
@andy_unleash - I don't misunderstand anything. 3rd party plugins and extensibility are great and many editors and IDEs can use plugins, not just ST2. However if using a feature is a core part of my workflow I'd rather have that feature b…
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What is the "best" text editor for Mac?
Sublime Text 2 is what is trendy. It has some cool features but personally I prefer an IDE like Netbeans (free) or WebStorm / PHPStorm. if what you do is HTML/CSS/JS then you should try WebStorm (PHPStorm adds PHP support). It is a full IDE and it …
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Why Macs became trendy among Web Developers?
I didn't mean this to be another Mac VS Windows thread. What I am curious is how this trend started. For example why you two switched to a Mac about a year ago? Why you didn't switch to what you believe is better, faster etc, many years a…
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Do I really, really need to move to SASS?
@ToxicFire If you or somebody else edits the CSS directly then you will have to incorporate all those changes to your SASS file before you can continue working. Otherwise when you recompile your SASS all those other edits will be overwritten. Pre …
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Why Macs became trendy among Web Developers?
I think that statement fails to take other things into account, like the fact that Macs are much more expensive than your standard computer. Does this mean that the Web Developers demographic are people who are richer than people in most other …
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Do I really, really need to move to SASS?
I am testing SASS (and LESS) right now as well. Pre - processors have several benefits (which have been mentioned already) but they also have several drawbacks: (1) You need to install and setup additional things on your computer. You need to do th…