Tools of My Trade
Published: 23 Oct 2009
In response to Rubyists - what are your "tools of the trade"?
Hardware
- Mac Pro: 4 core, 2 x 2.66GHz Dual-core Intel Xeon, 7GB RAM
- Dell 24” LCD Monitor: primary display
- Samsung 19” LCD Monitor: secondary display used for IM, Twitter, iTunes, and Skype. I never use Spaces.
- Microsoft Ergo keyboard
- Logitech Ergo Mouse
- Logitech USB headphones
- iPhone 3G
- Sennheiser Headphones
Desktop Software
- Mac OS X Leopard
- Transit - used for SFTP and managing files on Amazon S3
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adium
- Tweetie (for desktop and iPhone)
- Skype - mainly used for conference calls
- Skitch - great for taking quick screenshots
- OmniGraffle - I use it for illustrating ideas and mind-mapping
- IntelliJ IDEA - I use it for Java, JRuby, and Ruby
- TextMate - use it for quick edits and prototyping in Ruby
- VMWare Fusion - virtual instances of Ubuntu and Windows
- Terminal
- Safari - at the moment (tend to switch between FF, Chrome and Safari)
Hosted Software
- GitHub - recently converted from Subversion
- Google Apps - Gmail for mail, and Google docs
- Atlassian Confluence * - personal wiki for tracking ideas, features
- Atlassian JIRA * - issue tracker and personal to-do list
- Atlassian Bamboo * - continuous integration
- Sonatype Nexus * - manages my personal Maven repository
- Harvest (getharvest.com) - for client billing * hosted on my home network
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