Need

• a good programming editor for:

  • HTML, CSS
  • JavaScript
  • XML
  • XSLT, XQuery, XProc ...
• a github account
• git
• a local Web server — Apache, nginx, Jetty, Tomcat, XProclet

Need - later

For the server XQuery / Search work:

• MarkLogic (later in the course)
• eXist or BaseX (both need Java-based)
• Java

Want

• oXygen (highly recommended - demo) — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, all things XML, and an IDE to boot
• node.js
• Parallels, VirtualBox, Xen
• ant
• a proper shell — (windows users only)

Suffer

Some of you might enjoy suffering through these:

• Eclipse
• Calabash
• XProclet

Avoid

XML Spy