My partner and I just received our new MBPs and we’re pretty pumped about them — 17in, 8GB Ram, stateless HDs — very speedy. Startup is like 3 seconds, and I’m not kidding.
As we all know, getting a new computer is awesome, but it’s also a double edged sword…as my other partner Joe noted: “The worst thing about getting a new laptop is…well…getting a new laptop.” Sure the thing flies and all, but man there’s a good amount of hrs getting it ready for primetime development…think of all the little tools you’ve collected to make your laptop rock…
My partner and I have started to compile a live list of dev tools, goodies, IDEs,and whatevs we use on a regular basis and we thought we’d share — if you have others, please add to this list:
Basic Software & IDEs
- Eclipse Galileo R Packages or more specifically we use the Eclipse J2EE IDE
- Flash Builder — usually plug this into Eclipse
- Fireworks
- Flash
- Balsamiq
- MS Office
Connectivity & Tools
- Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2
- Chicken of the VNC
- Cisco VPN Client
- MySQL Workbench
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Maven
IM & Social
#1 by Ryan Knight - October 15th, 2010 at 18:25
Great list Tim! Here are some others
EverNote - http://www.evernote.com/ - Hands down the most useful software I use.
TextMate - http://macromates.com/ - I consider this an essential companion to any IDE for quick editing of files. It recognizes a ton of file formats, like java and flex, which is nice when you just want to quickly see how something works.
AppCleaner - http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/ - fully uninstall’s most software.
PDF Pen - http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/ - affordable PDF editing software.
Cornerstone - http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone/ - I find the eclipse svn plugins so painful to use it is worth having a separate application to manage svn.