As sort of a “follow-up” to my post from last week I am here to bring you what I think is a very solid list of tools for developing web applications with PHP.

1) Editor: TextMate (Mac Only), I really love this editor. On the PC I use PsPad.

2) Debug: A combination of writing robust error reporting in software, Firebug & Web Developer (firefox plug-ins) and apache weblog parsing

3) Tools: jQuery is my favorite toy right now, I am doing a lot of neat stuff with it and really bringing some database driven web applications “to life.”

4) Framework: CodeIgniter is a great, lightweight MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework for rapid PHP development.

5) Cross-browser testing: Honestly, I just use live machines.. I have heard very mixed things about Browsershots and haven’t looked into the other options. We just test all our stuff on multiple platforms/browsers to ensure compatibility across the board.

- Nicholas

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For the Love of Geeks welcomes aboard our latest contributing geek, Nicholas Kreidberg.

A self-proclaimed geek, he has been involved with computers and technology for over 20 years.  Currently employed as an application developer and database administrator, Nick spends countless hours writing both web based and server based applications in addition to building databases to support the back end.

Apart from being an expert in PHP, PostgreSQL, and several other web technologies; Music, Photography, and fatherhood take up Nick’s time, and whatever is left is spent entertaining the world on social networks like twitter, plurk, and friendfeed.

For the Love of Geeks looks forward to insightful, and educational posts from Nick about PHP, Databasing concepts, and other web tech training.  Nick will also be co-producing a new podcast that will be released through For the Love of Geeks, centrally focused on PHP.

We hope you will enjoy the new flavor that he will bring to the site, and give him a good welcome.

If you wish to get a hold of Nick you can email him here niczak@gmail.com or for other ways to find him online view his profile page.

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