Comments on: 100% Web-Based Working For Web Designers

By: Shahid

Shahid — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:08:05 +0000

Introducing http://www.Fatpaint.com, a free, full featured, online graphic design software for doing layered painting, vector drawing, photo editing and page layout. It’s the first Flash based painting program with full support for pressure sensitive Pen Tablets.

Fatpaint has more drawing and painting features than any other online graphics application, and it has built-in thousands of graphical resources.

We have worked very hard developing Fatpaint and therefore we are interested in your feedback.
So any suggestions or/and ideas for improving the software would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

By: Alex Flueras

Alex Flueras — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:40:21 +0000

Excellent list, thanks for sharing.

By: JoeFalk

JoeFalk — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:27:09 +0000

I strongly recommend DropBox, awsome for colab etc.

By: t brandis

t brandis — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:45:23 +0000

Without an off-line equivalent its not compelling enough..some real world examples… Nice but…

- I’m on a long plane (train , cruise) trip and need to update some code for a presentation when I get there..

- The internet goes out in the conference where I’m using wifi, and my code.. is … not accessible..

- phpanywhere is down (or blocked or hacked) etc… where’s my code..

Its sooo easy to just setup a local XAMPP and SVN (or git) server.. then post the changes to a shared repository server…

By: William Rackley

William Rackley — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:08:37 +0000

@Gjergji Kokushta,

You are awesome for mentioning redmark.

We’re switching over to that system today.

By: Kent

Kent — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:43:03 +0000

I’ll agree with a lot of these, but I don’t think that we’re at the place where we can completely replace desktop work entirely (though I sure wish we were). I primarily use cloud based apps, especially for “office” type activities like CRM, email, project mgmt, etc., but as a developer the online solutions just don’t cut it. I use Aptana because it’s insanely powerful and works so well. The development apps are great for little projects, but they don’t have the functionality needed for larger projects.

By: Umut M.

Umut M. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:59:40 +0000

@Jacob,

Thank you and agree with the SSH. I’ve been using my home setup as the server with all the goodies included, the drive pointing to Dropbox and work by connecting remotely when I’m away.

But my main point is, the web-based apps are improved so much that I almost don’t need such a system anymore. Or do I need? not sure yet and want to hear the thoughts.

Although the cloud is someone else’s server, it means more to me like the security of the data (replicated storage), uptime (same data on multiple locations) and scalability.

By: William Rackley

William Rackley — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:54:02 +0000

Great list, but don’t forget cpanel

I can not work on servers that don’t have it on the back end. It covers replacing ftp, ssh, code editor, phpmysql, and a lot more. All it needs is an integrated image editor.

I know I sound like an ad almost. Its just made my life a lot easier.

By: Jacob Rask

Jacob Rask — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:37:09 +0000

Nice writeup, but vim, ssh and git replaces most of these tools for me.

I mean, “the cloud” just means someone else’s server, not something magic “out there”.

By: hans

hans — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:55:45 +0000

today i’ll install linux!