Software for WordPress Theme and Plugin Development? [closed]

What software do you use for your WordPress related needs?

Please state your OS.

On windows XP I use:

• filezilla (FTP)
• notepad++ (for reading of PHP / CSS files)
• firebug (a firefox extension to allow me to play with a website elements)

Other things which I don’t use regularly, but would like to use more
– xaamp (local version of WP)
– github/SVN (a version control system for my files)

What about you?

OS Windows 7 x64

Using

• PhpStorm excellent non-free IDE, a lot of focus on speed and productivity
• Xdebug debugger, a lot of useful functions to dump, trace stack, profile
• WinSCP secure file transfer, folders sync, remote editing, backup
• Uniform Server WAMP stack, portable, up to date components
• Internet Explorer Collection easy way to have multiple IE for testing
• Cobian Backup local files backup
• Dropbox off-site backup storage (in context of WP)
• HeidiSQL MySQL client
• Balsamiq Mockups interface sketching
• Console2 command line interface

• Firefox Portable those plugins won’t run themselves

  • Firebug do I need to explain? 🙂
  • HTML Validator integrates with source view
  • YSlow performance
  • Page Speed performance
  • Web Developer various nifties
  • SEO Doctor solid no-fluff on-page SEO check
  • View Source Chart color-coded and foldable page source view

• WordPress plugins

  • BackupBuddy backup and migration
  • WordPress Console cool, handy, but glitches at times
  • Codestyling Localization must have for translations
  • list hooks (shameless plug) several functions for hooks debug
  • Theme-Check runs battery of tests on theme for official repository theme requirements
  • Core Control very useful to debug file system access, network access and wp cron
  • Codex Generator (shameless plug) functions research and filling up Codex

Version control

• Subversion
  • official WP repository
  • Unfuddle
• Mercurial
  • Bitbucket
• Git
  • Unfuddle

Considering

• Chrome plenty development extensions already, Firefox is damn slow

Deprecated

• Notepad++ almost never use it since picked up NetBeans
• PHPXref easier to navigate code inside NetBeans
• WP Tuner great performance profiling, unfortunately not maintained and broke for WP3
• MoWeS became too much trouble to struggle with component updates and stability issues (Apache started to crash all the time)
• NetBeans moved on to PhpStorm
• eAccelerator – modern version don’t provide object cache, somewhat unstable (occasional crashes)
• webgrind – no need anymore, PhpStorm can now parse and display profiler logs
• CSE HTML Validator just never get to use it on top of everything else
• MySQL Query Browser replaced with HeidiSQL