Here is a collection of links that can get the group started. This is a wiki page so please feel free to add links you find to this post until we get proper pages for specific setup steps.
Starting points
- How to Succesfully Incorporate Eclipse IDE into a Drupal Workflow
- Configuring Eclipse
- Drupal Podcast No. 31: Drupal Development Tools
Links
- Measure-It extension: http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/measureit/
- Web developer toolbar: http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
- Firebug: http://getfirebug.com/
- Vim: http://www.vim.org/
- TextMate: http://macromates.com/
- TextWrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
- UltraEdit: http://www.ultraedit.com/
- Zend Studio: http://www.zend.com/products/zend_studio
- Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org
- PHP Eclipse: http://phpeclipse.de
- PDT: http://www.eclipse.org/php/
- Komodo: http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/ -- used and recommended by many drupalers as the no fuss way of getting a debugger set up
- Xdebug: http://xdebug.org/
- MAMP: http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php
- XAMPP: http://apachefriends.org/