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Lynne d Johnson · 1 year ago

This was a great interview Tiffany and Markus. Learned a lot about Tiff's inner- geek. Not that I don't already know, but to see it here in this context, was well, different. Each one of these interviews so far, brings such a different aspect of working on the Web that makes it so interesting and fascinating.

I didn't know she worked with Curley though, I'll have to learn more about that.

Fredric · 1 year ago

Glad to see a fellow geek as well.

For those looking at other tools, I use Navicat for MySQL, ditto MAMP, and Zend as my PHP IDE. I'll have to look at Aptana. Right now I'm stuck on TextWrangler and Cyberduck.

For those who have multiple platforms, Wine and VNC Server FTW!

Side Note: Tiffany, if you ever want to bounce freelance ideas or problems off someone during that 5-9, reach out to the community!

Holleration.

Dede @ Clutch · 1 year ago

Great interview. I have been following Tiffany for a while -- great social media maven.

Markus · 1 year ago

Thanks All! I have been following Tiffany for a couple of years now, and I jumped at the chance to interview her. I had a blast! Thanks Tiffany.

Lynne d Johnson · 1 year ago

Since we're doing a tools thread, and though I'm neither a developer nor a designer, but work closely enough on product to think like both groups, I wanted to share a few tools too:

I use HyperEdit for HTML and PHP editing

FTP SFTP - Used to use CyberDuck and Fugu. But once I switched to FireFTP the Firefox extension, I never turned back.

Then I'm sure you all use the Firebug (I just use it to point things out to the Web developers at work when I'm experiencing a problem on one of our pages. Great debugging tool. But I know developers find a lot more to do with it.

And since I'm not a designer, I don't do much with photos or images, at least not enough to warrant my using Adobe products, so I use the open source Gimp instead. It's a little tricky for folks used to using photoshop, so there is Gimpshop, but it hasn't been updated in a while.

Anyway, don't know if I said it, but these interviews are getting more and more interesting. It's great to know what people really do in their work and how they got there.

Ann · 1 year ago

Markus, excellent interview! Tiffany, your back story makes me feel much better about my grind right now and the way I am becoming an interactive developer.

Bryan Wilhite · 1 year ago

Like Lynn says, everyone serious on Firefox gots to use Firebug! It's said that Hewitt can't keep development going... we all get into the W2 labor labor and, as Tiffany points out, the "romance" of being freelance gets old quick without multi-millionaire friends.

tiffany · 1 year ago

I cosign Firebug all day every day. Chris Pederick's Web Developer Toolbar and YSlow (an extension for the Firebug extension) are also great add-ons.

LiveHTTPHeaders is also mad critical if you're doing Flash applications where a front layer talks to a server-side middle layer. It has saved my a** at least once on all three PHP+MySQL+Flash projects I've worked on.

TheJennTaFur · 1 year ago

Loving the interview. I follow @tiffanybbrown on twitter and she always makes me smile when she does not realize it. I've read her tweets on her coding, and I can tell she definitely enjoys what she is doing because she would not be that intense about perfecting her craft. The end result is beautiful!

@blackweb20 - keep up the great articles and interviews!