I have officially ended the use of Dreamweaver for all of my web development. I got so tired of the slow bloated performance of Dreamweaver and constantly having to pour more money into new versions. So I went looking for a better way and found this…

On Mac OS X I use CyberDuck for FTP and TextMate as an editor.

In case you are on Windows, though not as good, you can use FileZilla and Notepad++ and accomplish a similar setup and functionality.

This is the perfect combination and the price is much better than Dreamweaver. CyberDuck is free and a license to TextMate is only $56. The windows combination is completely free.

The syntax highlighting on TextMate is great and when you start using the bundles and snippet functionality of TextMate, you’ll quickly realize what you’ve been missing.

If you have any stories about using this setup, feel free to share. Or if you have used a different combination of tools (other than Dreamweaver) lets hear it.

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.

This is my first real opportunity to explore the advantages and details of Ruby on Rails. I’m going to test it out by building a basic web application and we’ll see where that takes us.

I was very impressed with their demo video and the other services that have been created using Ruby on Rails. I thought at first that it wouldn’t be a good alternative to .NET 2.0 but after more research I realized that it is a perfect alternative to .NET.

I guess we’ll see how this goes.