I always find it interesting to know what tools other people use for their web development. Here’s my list:
- MacBook (black) – I love the portability
- Bluetooth Mighty Mouse – Apple please fix the scroll ball.
- TimeCapsule 500GB – Backups, to be honest its mostly got videos on it. I need more space.
- LinkSys ATA – VOIP to the office in NZ.
- Software:
- Firefox 3.0.9 – Im getting tired of how long it takes to open Firefox. Being a developer, I usually have lots of tabs open… right now I have 34 tabs open.
- Firebug – Best development helper ever.
- Coda – panic.com/coda – Best code editor I’ve ever used, but please fix the search feature (why doesnt it find all strings that match the search text the first time?! – I have to to a Search/Replace multiple times to get all matches, ew)
- Versions – versionsapp.com – Subversion client. Love.
- Things – culturedcode.com/things – Keeping track of to-do’s, ideas etc. I also have the iPhone version.
- Terminal – multiple windows always open. I made a custom theme that looks like the first computer we ever had (black background with yellowy-orange text)
- Mail – Great built-in mail app.
- VMWare Fusion – vmware.com – All my development is done on local virtual machines (VM’s/VPS’s) running Debian Etch/Lenny. I always have at least one open, often more. I generally run them with only 128MB RAM each (my MacBook only has 2GB RAM which doesnt seem to be enough).
I also have non-cli operating systems installed for testing code on different browsers.
I would love to move this off to another machine to save me some memory: http://twitter.com/robertkern/status/1605041064 - VPN – Built-in Mac VPN client for connecting to the office.
- Adium – Chat connected to multiple chat systems including our own OpenFire installation for internal communication.
- Transmit – panic.com/transmit – Great FTP client. I dont need to use FTP too often, but when I do, this is a great app to use.
- Photoshop – When I need to make image edits I use Photoshop, although I think i’d like to move over to Pixelmator.
- FileMerge – For diff-ing files.
- Pot of tea with damnfinetea. Or a plunger of coffee. Bottle of water.
I generally have most of these apps open at the same time (excluding probably Transmit and Photoshop which I dont use often enough to keep open).