My 2013 setup of hardware & software
I started developing on a HP unix machine that had a green screen, I forget what processor it was, but all I had was a c-shell and I loved it. Things have moved on from then. I'm dumping out what I use today so I can look back later in the years ahead.
Hardware #
- Macbook air 1.8ghz i7, 4gb RAM, 256GB SSD
- iPhone 4 32gb, ARM Cortex A8 with PowerVR GPU (Apple A4)
- iPad Mini WiFi 32gb, ARM Cortext A9 with Dual core PowerVR GPU (Apple A5)
Daily desktop software #
- Mac OS X 10.8.2
- Reminders
- Calendar synced with Google
- Google Chrome beta - sticky tab mail for personal and another for company, irccloud for IRC chat
- iTerm, so that I can use split panes and use the mac cmd keys (my brain is programmed that way currently)
- Alfred as a launcher and helper to quickly get to data (contacts, open recent files, clipboard history)
- Tweetdeck mac for tweet deck
- iTunes for local music
For Development #
- zsh, with my dotfiles for custom prompt, aliases, history search etc.
- macvim for editing code, markdown and other text based files
- homebrew to manage my Mac libraries and services (Thank you Max for this!)
- Postgres first choice of db on projects therefore always running, MySQL and mongoDB manually turn off and on when I need
- Redis always running, used as cache and backed for queuing
- rbenv to manage my ruby versions
- Vagrant for developing other stuff requiring lots of things I don't need every day (Firefox OS compiling for example)
Web services #
- Dropbox for Documents
- Google GMail, calendar, contacts, docs (or should I say drive)
- Google Reader
- iCloud for Reminders and find my phone & iPad
- Evernote - for dumping my brain on ideas / potential emails / things i want to continue on the iPhone
- Github & Codeplane for repo hosting
- 1password for my password management
- Instapaper for reading
- Pinboard for saving bookmarks and sharing with team
- Blogtrotter to send our team pinboard links we save under certrain tags
- Pivotal Tracker for managing iterations with clients and internal projects
- Twitter / LinkedIn / google+ / app.net / Facebook - all for different things
- Spotify / We Are Hunter for music
- Buffer to queue my posts to social networks
- Flowdock - chat and aggregation tool used mainly with clients
- Communications - mac messages app to talk over Gtalk & Skype
What do you use and find it good for? :wq