A while back, we posted the tools we use to run and build 37signals. What tools/software do you use? Link it up.
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A while back, we posted the tools we use to run and build 37signals. What tools/software do you use? Link it up.
Aaron Blohowiak
on 14 Dec 06terminal: iTerm (http://iterm.sourceforge.net/)
browczar: fFox
dbuggr: Firebug Beta (you have to get it from getfirebug as plugin updates only work for release versions)
EDITOR: TM
isabella: MBP
customer support: SproutIt
hosting: Rimu
JF
on 14 Dec 06To add to our list, we use Campfire every day all day constantly. It’s the most useful product we’ve ever built and I can’t imagine us getting work done without it.
dave rau
on 14 Dec 06Rats! All my hard returns didn’t come thru on that post; let’s try again. sorry.
-text editing: bbedit
-ftp: interarchy (auto upload feature is wonderful for webmasters) & transmit
-email: mail & spamsieve (absolutely wonderful; almost 1000 spams a week, only 3 false positives and 1 negative in 2 months)
-mysql gui: cocoamysql (beta works with newer mysql versions)
-organization: I’d be lost without Adobe Bridge; how else can I keep a disastrous desktop with 400+ items and still be organized? Bridge is probably my favorite program. Apple should build that kind of finder viewer into OS X .
-hardware: 23” cinema and a dual g5
-printer: Epson 7600 with archival inks (we recently upgraded to archival) and finally, we can offer archival prints on Resist Today
-email newsletters: mailchimp; it’s a little pricey but I found the interface to be easier than campaign monitor. some day I’ll setup Dada mail and we’ll go the free route.
-web host: xilogix; super-fast dedicated servers. nothing like 600kbs thruput to your web site. And the new Plesk 8 backend is wonderfully easy (and finally works well in Safari).
James Randall
on 14 Dec 06Text editing: TextMate, XCode
FTP: CyberDuck
Graphics: Photoshop and Aperture
Email: Mail
Hardware: A Mac Pro and 24” Dell monitor, and a PowerBook G4 when on the go
Frameworks: Rails, Dojo
Webhost: Varies
Other stuff: Parallels, NewsFire, and I’d be lost without iTunes and my iPod.
The Colonel
on 14 Dec 06Initial Coding: BBEdit
Graphics: Photoshop (Slantmouth logo in Illustrator)
CMS: Wordpress
Hosting: Dreamhost
Traffic monitoring: Mint and Crazy Egg
FTP Client: Fetch
Matt Baron
on 14 Dec 06I don’t see what the deal with iterm is. Tabs are nice but it is lacking a lot of useful features from Apple’s Terminal (eg the keystroke configurations)
Svante
on 14 Dec 06Text: Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (lousy name yeah), concidering upgrading to Standard edition since it’s more customizable.
Graphics: Adobe Photoshop CS2, ImageReady
Print: Adobe InDesign CS2
Customer support/email/scheduling: Microsoft Outlook 2003
DB: MySQL
Browser: IE7, IE6, Firefox 2, Safari 2
Invoicing: Custom app. that integrated with InDesign
E-mail newsletters: Custom app.
Backup: Custom app./scripts-mix
Frameworks: ASP, custom
Doctype: 4.01 strict
gwg
on 14 Dec 06HTML / CSS / JS – Aptana DB Graphics – PS Hosting – A Small Orange Traffic – Google / Crazy Egg Project Management – Basecamp Long Distance Voice – Skype
Piotr Usewicz
on 14 Dec 06http://blog.layer22.com/2006/12/10/my-development-tools/
Jason
on 14 Dec 06Hardware: 20” Intel iMac Text: BBEdit FTP: Transmit Graphics: Photoshop CS2 Browsers: Safari, Firefox (and all of the Windows browsers as soon as I install Parallels and XP) CMS: Depends, but I prefer ExpressionEngine Host: Depends
Philip Karpiak
on 14 Dec 06Coding: TopStyle Pro Graphics: Photoshop CS2, Maya Image optimization: PNGGauntlet CMS: WordPress Traffic: Google Analytics Hosting: A Small Orange FTP: FileZilla Collab: IRC, Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Skype
Philip Karpiak
on 14 Dec 06Coding: TopStyle Pro Graphics: Photoshop CS2, Maya Image optimization: PNGGauntlet CMS: WordPress Traffic: Google Analytics Hosting: A Small Orange FTP: FileZilla Collab: IRC, Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Skype
Clayton
on 14 Dec 06Editor – Textmate Browser – FireFox FTP – Transmist Project Management – Basecamp Terminal – Terminal.app Mail – Mail.app Database GUI – CocoaMySQL
Bernard Farrell
on 14 Dec 06Firefox 2.0 for development. IE 7.0 to check pages display OK. Firebug for debugging JavaScript and AJAX. Web Developer Toolbar for CSS checking, HTML Validation, and many other things. CuteFTP for FTP. UltraEdit for editing. File Locator Pro for file searching (invaluable when you have 1000’s of JSP files).
Derek
on 14 Dec 06Adobe PageMill 2.0 (Macintosh) I use this jack-of-all-trades to take every project from start to finish. Indispensible. Adobe, are you listening? Bring it back in Creative Suite 4!
Dennis
on 14 Dec 06Editor: Textmate
FTP: Transmit
Project Management: Basecamp
Billing: Blinksale
Mail: Apple Mail
Host: Engine Yard
mattly
on 14 Dec 06keeping stuff together: I sorta hate to mention it to y’all, but I’ve been in the process of moving my ‘keep it together’ stuff from Backpack to Curio It’s far better suited to how I think, and any files that needs to be portable live on a flash drive.
illustration: Lineform has all but replaced Illustrator for me.
color-blindness sanity-checking: Sim Daltonism is small, free, and does its job admirably.
css monkeying: CSSEdit gained a new layer of awesomeness with v.2
invoicing and inventory management for my manufacturing business: a custom-built rails app that I, someone who had only really dabbled in programming with Filemaker before, was able to build myself. Thanks for such an awesome tool with rails.
Adam Spooner
on 14 Dec 06Compy486 – Monkey, Dell20 Text/Coding – TM, Xcode CSS – CSSEdit2 Images – PS + Ill, toying with Lightroom Browsers – Safari, Camino, FF2, IE6, IE7 via Parallels Planning – Paper, Pencil, xScope DBs – MySQL (w/ CocoaMySQL), PostgreSQL (w/ PGAdmin3) (S)FTP – Transmit Misc – iTunes
chrisb
on 14 Dec 06Timetracking = Harvest
I know, I know: “Tracking time is a waste of time. Things either get done or they don’t. If they don’t, everyone knows about it.” – JF, Jan 2006
But ever since we started tracking time with Harvest I have to disagree. In our case (web development shop juggling dozens of hourly-billable clients) it is actually the problem that sometimes stuff was getting done and no one “knows about it”—IE, our billing wasn’t accurate and we were eating the cost.
I use harvest to account for everything I do, and it really helps me stay task-oriented without the F-ing interface making me insane. (Like previous time tracking software that will go unnamed …)
hermanobrother
on 14 Dec 06All text editing: Textmate
Firefox
Hosting: Dreamhost
Mac, Apache, PHP, MySQL: MAMP
Adobe Stuff
FTP: Transmit
CMS: Textpattern
Matt
on 14 Dec 06Text editor: vim Email: ThunderBird and Outlook Express Browser: FireFox and IE7 Hosting: WebFaction Source code: Subversion
Joshua Kaufman
on 14 Dec 06Everything I use is listed on my profile on iusethis.com.
Anyone else using iusethis? Great site.
Daniel
on 14 Dec 06Mac OS X / TextMate / Lighttpd / MySQL or SQLite / Python / Django / Firefox / Mail
Carl Bolduc
on 14 Dec 06Browsing & testing: firefox, opera, ie Text editing: vim and e (a windows editor which use textmate bundles); Email: gmail and yahoo mail beta; Term: windows power shell GTD: yahoo calendar and notes Collaboration: campfire, google docs Widgets: yahoo widgets Music: yahoo music jukebox
Seth Werkheiser
on 14 Dec 06Browser: Firefox Work Email: Mail Other Email: Google Mail for you Domain RSS: Newsfire Chat: iChat A/V with Chax (tabbed chat!) Images: ImageWell
Walker Hamilton
on 14 Dec 06We use Joyent’s Connector hosted application. It’s not quite changing the way we work…yet. But they keep making it better under us.
Stefanos Karagos
on 14 Dec 06Browsing: Firefox Text/PHP/HTML: PSPad eMail: Gmail Host: Media Temple RSS Reader: GreatNews CMS: Drupal Mind mapping: MindManager CSS coding: Style Master Traffic monitoring: Google Analytics GTD app: MonkeyGTD Download tool: DownThemAll [firefox addon] Bookmarking/Clipping: Net Snippets StartPages: Netvibes & OriginalSignal
Steve
on 14 Dec 06How about survey tools? What did you use for the customer satisfaction survey?
Alex
on 14 Dec 06Editor: Emacs Source Code Control: Arch OS: Debian
Raymond Brigleb
on 14 Dec 06Besides many of the OS X tools listed above, I use Gone Raw to make sure I’m eating the kind of food that will allow me to stay creative, productive, and healthy all day. Never underestimate the power that your diet has on your mind and body!
Darren Stuart
on 14 Dec 06email, webmail and outlook
web dev asp.net 2.0, sql server 2005 visual studio pro 2005 php and asp classic in dreamweaver or assorted text editor depending on the computer I am using.
Photoshop and Fireworks for images Flash for illustration
Backpack for getting things done (to do list and notes etc).
IE developer toolbar and firebug for Moz stuff. Someone really needs to port webkit and web inspector to windows.
wayne
on 14 Dec 06os x, fireworks (8 and the CS3 beta), dreamweaver, adium, basecamp, virtual pc (because ExactTarget’s application only works in IE), iWork, iLife,
Michael Luu
on 14 Dec 06Another resounding “Yay!” for Firebug. I can’t imagine life without it. And I feel I need to rep my text editor as I haven’t seen it posted here… JEdit. yes, it’s a Java app but the plugin options are vast which make customization for your language/IDE preferences easy.
Jeff
on 14 Dec 06Hardware: MacBook Pro 17” and PowerMac Dual 2.0ghz G5 with dual Dell 2005fwp 20” monitors
Editor: TextMate Browser: Firefox FTP: ncftp database: PostgreSQL 8.2 Version Control: Subversion Billing: Blinksale
Matt
on 14 Dec 06For our upcoming app, Convos – Building with Flex 2 with (fingers crossed) Amazon EC2/S3 for hosting / storage. On the marketing side / business side – Blog: Squarespace, Graphics: PhotoShop, Video: Final Cut Pro, Video Hosting: MotionBox, BrightCove, YouTube. 2 of us are PC users and I am a PC/Mac user so we have an interesting setup.
Mrad
on 14 Dec 06For Markup: skEdit
Web Graphics: Macromedia Fireworks (yes Fireworks) & Flash with a peppering of Illustrator & Photoshop
Version Control: Smart CVS
Chat: Adium
Testing: Any browser I can get my hands on, IE6 & later
Font Management: Linotype FontExplorer X (free AND kicks the crap outta Suitcase
Validation: Firefox HTML Validator & Web Developer Toolbar, CSSEdit
Anonymous Coward
on 14 Dec 06Somewhere I read this: “For keeping people organized we use Sunrise.” and that linked to a post titled: “Sunrise: 37signals’ CRM tool for small business is coming soon”(Dec 05)
I wonder what that was all about?
Oh come on, somebody had to mention it!
Des Traynor
on 14 Dec 06I use bits and pieces of whats mentioned above. The one tool I use that hasn’t been mentioned already is Scribes Scribes ~ TextMate for Linux.
It’s not really TextMate for Linux, and there are some peculiarites with it. But its stable, free, and still in active development (i.e. getting better, not just getting stable).
Jack Henry
on 14 Dec 06Project Planning and Diagramming: Line Rider
Code Editor: Wrieboard
Communication: Wikipedia + Telephone (I leave messages at the bottom of seldomly edited pages and then call people and tell them to go to the page to get the message)
I know what many of you must be thinking: How do you get any work done? The way I see it, it’s not about getting things done fast, it’s about making it difficult for your successors. Complexity = job security. I’m not that smart so I have to do something.
keep it lean
on 14 Dec 06I smoke some dro when I’m doing finances, snort the white when i’m crunching to program.
The rest of the time I keep it lean up in my cup.
John
on 14 Dec 06Oh com’on Jason…
“It’s the most useful product we’ve ever built and I can’t imagine us getting work done without it”
You guys used IM before Campfire.
Michele
on 14 Dec 06Text editing: TextMate
Organizing my work: OmniOutliner
Bug Tracking: 16bugs...love it! But then again, I developed it… ;)
Technical Support: Gmail and TextExpander
Ben Kittrell
on 14 Dec 06For app development I use Ruby on Rails, through RadRails on windows. I’ve got Console for command line stuff. Our host is the always in style Rails Machine.
We use Basecamp for project management.
And of course we use our own doodlekit for our web hosting, blog, forum and portfolio gallery.
Greg DeVore
on 14 Dec 06MacBook Pro (C2 Duo)
Basecamp Backpack Cocoa MySQL Runtime Revolution Photoshop OmniGraffle Firefox Textmate Path Finder (tabbed browsing in the finder saves a lot of time) ScreenSteps iChat Mail Transmit Parallels (I can’t believe how well this works)
Ben Richardson
on 14 Dec 06Here’s a couple of apps that we couldn’t live without that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Customer support: HepSpot
Bug Tracking/Project Management: Jira
undees
on 14 Dec 06Editor: Smultron has most of the syntax-colored, snippet-y goodness I require.
(S)FTP: CyberDuck plays well with Smultron and other editors.
Ruby/Rails updates: DarwinPorts releases more often than Locomotive, which would otherwise have been the kick-buttest OS X Rails development option.
Project wrangling: Backpack (did I really need to provide a URL for that one?).
Basic money oversight: Wesabe is new, but has already replaced my old manually-download-and-reconcile methods.
And a PowerBook G4 to push the electrons through.
As a side note, how can anyone stand iTerm? It seems slower and shabbier than Terminal.app, and darned if I can figure out how to set the font defaults. (Not flamebait: I’d really like to know what people see in it, and what I’ve been doing wrong with it.)
undees
on 14 Dec 06Doh! That link for Smultron should’ve been to here.
allan branch
on 14 Dec 06Sales Leads / Expense Tracking / Invoicing / Proposal Sending = LessAccounting.com Project Manager = Basecamp Graphics = Photoshop and Illustrator HTML = Textmate
Kortina
on 14 Dec 06os: OS X with the mac terminal browser: firefox with firebug extension editor: textmate or vim email: gmail for your domain bookmarks: delicious writing/collaboration: writely/google docs reminders: backpackit
haven’t seen anyone link to this yet:
backups: amazon s3 (with jungledisk for personal files) news: original signal
Dan Boland
on 14 Dec 06Code: BBEdit 7 Graphics/Images: Photoshop CS / Illustrator CS Browser: Safari FTP: Transmit 3.5 E-mail: Mail w/ SpamSieve Font management: Font Book RSS: NetNewsWire Lite
And last but not least:
Playing Nintendo: Nestopia :)
alice
on 14 Dec 06Smultron rocks. Textmate sucks. Debate.
Kenn Christ
on 14 Dec 06I’ve got a list I keep (somewhat) updates on my site: Personal Information Infrastructure.
Mostly your basic OS X software, pretty much the same stuff everyone else here is using, with a brief mention of a few Windows things I keep on a USB drive just in case.
ML
on 14 Dec 06Oh com’on Jason…You guys used IM before Campfire.
Sure, but it didn’t do what we wanted. That’s why we built Campfire. It may not be for everyone, but for our distributed team it’s 100% essential.
Rick
on 14 Dec 06Have: Dell 6000 / Windows XP / TextPad for HTML & CSS / IE7 and FF2.0 / MySQL & SQL / PHP & ASP.Net / Photoshop CS2 / Blinksale, Basecamp, Gemini / Wordpress & DNN
Want: MacBook Pro / BBedit / Better CMS / Coghead / ...BMW
Martin Lee
on 14 Dec 06HTML/PHP/Javascript : textMate/BBEdit CSS : CSSEdit/Xyle Scope Image: PhotoShop/Illustrator IA : OmniGraffle Photo : Aperture/Picasa Browser : Firefox Hardware/OS : MacBook running OS 10.4.8 & Windows XP Font design : FontLab CMS : Drupal/Menalto gallery/Joomla/ FTP : Transmit/Cyber Duck Email : Gmail RSS : Google Reader
Andy Schrei
on 14 Dec 06Editor – SubethaEdit (Jedit on linux and win) Framework – Ruby on Rails Source Control – Subversion with Versionshelf FTP – CyberDuck MySQL – YourSQL Computer – Apple MBP ... lot’s of gnu tools and other open source stuff
Parand
on 14 Dec 06Python, Django, Eclipse+PyDev+Aptana Firebug Scintilla (editor) Subversion CVS Yahoo IM (a lot!) Wordpress
SQLite (development) MySQL (deployment)
Compaq NC6000 (but I don’t particularly like it) Acer 3002 (but I don’t like it!)
Jake
on 14 Dec 06E-mail: outlook, documents: office, ide: visual studio, database: sql server, web server: IIS, chat: trillian….........take that!
Chris
on 14 Dec 06Launchy.net for Windows. Best thing ever.
Andy Kant
on 14 Dec 06Project Design: Enterprise Architect Project Management: Basecamp currently Coding: SciTE, Visual Studio 2003/2005/2005 Express (also VIM, PHP Designer, Dreamweaver, Eclipse variants) FTP/SSH: FlashFXP, PuTTY, whatever comes with bash Graphics: Paint Shop Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP Languages/Technologies: PHP, C#/.NET/ASP.NET, JavaScript, Ruby/Rails (also Java/JSP, C/C++, Perl, VB.NET, VB6, VBscript, ASM, Lua, Python, Delphi) Database: MySQL, SQL Server 2000/2005 (also SQLite, PostgreSQL) Web Server: Apache, IIS (also WEBrick, Tomcat) Web Debugging: Firefox 2 w/Firebug 1.0 beta, IE6/7 w/Microsoft Developer Toolbar (Firebug wannabe, close enough) Documents: Office Operating System: Windows XP (also Ubuntu) Blog Software: Custom once I have the time to put together a website ;)
On my shopping list: MacBook Pro (w/Parallels and TextMate), Windows Vista (Home Premium or Ultimate, haven’t decided), Microsoft XNA (free, but time to play with it is “on my shopping list”)
...and for the record, C# with the .NET Framework alone makes Windows XP a better operating system than OS X :D (Can’t wait to try out OS X w/Parallels with that new window encapsulation stuff though once I get the money to buy my MBP)
Brian
on 15 Dec 06Editor: UltraEdit Web tools: Firebug, Web developer toolbar, Google notebook Collaboration: CampFire Version control: SVN FTP: WS_FTP (oldie but a goldy) Screen grabs: WinSnap DBAdmin: MySQL Yogger General server control: Webmin
Cheers…
Carl Bolduc
on 15 Dec 06BTW, I wonder why you guys aren’t using rails for your blog? Is it inferior to Movable Type for this kinda task?
Robby Russell
on 15 Dec 06Carl, They have their own blog s/w they are running this site with now.
Original post:
The Design and Development team at uses the following…
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, rSpec!, TextMate, Basecamp, svnwatch for rbot, IRC, and of course… Dialogue-Driven Development!
Darren Stuart
on 15 Dec 06Carl this is a rails app I think. They changed it a while back I seem to recall.
mattl
on 15 Dec 06OS: Debian GNU/Linux Machine: PowerBook G4 15” 1.67/1Gb Editor: emacs 21 Graphics: Inkscape + GIMP Browser: Firefox/Iceweasel 2.0
Everything else I use is from Debian.
Jeffery
on 15 Dec 06Some well kept secrets of the trade:
SQL: SQLYog
Regexp: RegexBuddy
FTP: RightLoad: RightLoad
Nathaniel
on 15 Dec 06I use, love and highly recommend Crimson Editor. It does an excellent job of staying out the way. Although it lacks some features that would be nice, the basics are nailed.
It seems to be out of development, as the last update was September of ‘04, but I’ve never had any problems with bugs. Check it out.
Matt
on 15 Dec 06Email\Database: Lotus Notes
Text Editor: TextPad
CSS: TopStyle
Accounting: QuickBooks Online
Project Management: BaseCamp
Images: PhotoShop
Digger
on 15 Dec 06Holly cow – is that another reference to Sunrise CRM I see?
Where is Sunrise now – been keeping a whether eye out for the mythical beast. So it appears you are working on it internally.
How long before release to an adoring public?
Pam
on 15 Dec 06DEVONThink an amazing MacOS information manager
Curio and OmniGraffle for visual thinking and mind-mapping
Blinksale for invoicing
Basecamp (duh)
Daylite for CRM (at least until you guys release Campfire, and maybe even then)
Wordpress
Last but not least: MacOS X on my 12” PowerBook (with the 20” Cinema Display when I’m at home)
Pam
on 15 Dec 06I meant until you release Sunrise (not Campfire) of course.
Caffo
on 15 Dec 06I’ve done a list like that some time ago: http://caffo.backpackit.com/pub/836037
Karthi
on 15 Dec 06Editor : gvim Development tools : GNU toolchain, MS Studio. Cygwin Lanuage : c, tcl, perl Bug tracking : Gnats Email : Outlook with Microsoft exchange Browser : Firefox OS : Linux, Windows Misc. TeraTerm, Softice
amine
on 15 Dec 06i’ve posted the same list around a month ago.. :)
Desktop Based Apps.
FireFox Photoshop Crimson Editor iTunes gTalkWeb Based Apps.
Google Gmail Basecamp TaDa Lits 30BoxesKarthi
on 15 Dec 06I sinned by not mentioning version control in comments.
It’s CVS!
victor
on 15 Dec 06i use my head most of the time (as in thinking, banging it, resting it) note: i don’t mean it is an useful resource, but it is a resource i use recurrently. note2: it counts as software after all that banging…
then i use: subethaedit, quicksilver (like a madman, it won’t stop quitting unexpectedly, pity i’m not a good crash report sender), kGTD, OMNI (they’re sweet!), textmate, voodoopad, .Mac, CSSedit, basecamp, flash (but i don’t like it anymore), illustrator (and i love it, more than photoshop), proteus (more professional and “to teh point0xz” than adiumx, imho, and yes, it lacks stuff that will come), skype (if possible, i keep all my professional IM there, pity history sucks after two weeks of itense communication with any party, but file transfers smoke out every other app, and i work remotely), ssh, my webserver and many ftp accounts, transmit, finder, bosco screenshare (one excelling gem on the “you’re such a newbie, that is so easy, lemme control your screen for a bit and i’ll show you” realm) and my mouse (that counts as software after all the banging it gets)
victor
on 15 Dec 06ah, and Safari, of course (typographical bliss among brute online type-rendering browser beasts)...
Chriztian Steinmeier
on 15 Dec 06TextMate, QuickSilver, Basecamp, Subversion, iTerm, AdiumX and Opera (browser & e-mail).
Jared Hughes
on 15 Dec 06Editor: e text editor (textmate for windows)
Graphics: Xara Xtreme
Version Control: TortoiseSVN
Markus
on 15 Dec 06I’ve just read the post “The tools we use to run and build 37signals” (03 Jan 2006).
For running your blogs you use Movable Type. You “don’t have time or the need to build something custom — that would be a waste of time at this point.”
Your reply leaves me very puzzled.
According to a popular Rails screencast it is possible to create a complete weblog engine with comments and an administrative interface in 15 minutes.
Are you so busy?
Lakshan
on 15 Dec 06Here is the list from a 3rd world geek ;) http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2006/12/15/the-tools-i-use/
Cristi
on 15 Dec 06Text editor: EditPlus Browser: Firefox 2.0 (+ IE for cross-browser checking) Communication: Gmail Projects mngt: Tada lists – yep, that’s all :) ... only small projects so far Photo editor: PaintShopPro Utilities / FTP: Total Commander Version control: SVN
MI
on 15 Dec 06Carl and Markus,
That list is somewhat out of date. Since that list was posted we have deployed a new blog engine that was developed here. MovableType worked well for us for a long time, there was no need to look elsewhere until that stopped being the case.
Other changes are that we now use Rackspace for hosting, and we have Intel Macs with Parallels for testing things in Windows.
Edward
on 15 Dec 06IDE: Eclipse (PHPEclipse and other addons) Editor: EditPlus Frameworks: Custom, QCodo (moving everything to QCodo in the future though) RSS: SharpReader Graphics: Photoshop, Fireworks Hosting: ServInt Email: Outlook (I don’t like it but haven’t found anything better) Browser: IE7 (+FF and Opera) Distro: Fedora Core DB: MySQL ORM designer: DBDesigner FTP (or rather SCP): WinSCP Personal organisation/planning etc: FreeMind
Stephen
on 15 Dec 06Muji notebooks and a Waterman refillable fountain pen.
Stephan
on 15 Dec 06Favourite environment: System: MacBook running on OS X Tiger, since yesterday with a 120 GB harddisk.
Editor: TextMate, Web framework: Rails, DBs: SQLite & PostgreSQL, Programming language: mostly Ruby, Browser: Firefox, E-Mail client: Thunderbird, Version Control: Subversion, Webserver: mostly Mongrel, Presentations: Keynote, Office programs: Neo Office or OpenOffice.org, Other tools: Quicksilver to find & start programs using the keyboard, Instiki for a number of wikis, Skype for VoIP, GraphViz and ImageMagick/RMagick…
And a few more…
Sangeeta Tomar
on 15 Dec 06CMS: drupal
Open Office for word processing and Presentation…
Antti
on 16 Dec 06I’m suprised that no one mentioned Notepad++. It’s good, and it’s free:)
Shawn Oster
on 16 Dec 06Editor: Textpad
Desktop Win32 Development: Borland (Codegear) Delphi
My Zune
Media Center Edition of Windows to record and watch Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force when I need to decompress
XBox 360 when I need a break from coding but don’t want to get sleepy.
Red Bull when I need to wake up.
Subversion for source control.
Mike Birch
on 17 Dec 06Computer: Apple powerbook
RSS Feeds: NetNewsWire Lite
Web: Textmate, Cyberduck, Subversion and svnX, Firefox with Firebug and Web developer, CocoaMySQL, Fireworks, CakePHP, Drupal
Organising myself: Make lists of tasks using OmniOutliner, then track time using Office time.
Health: AntiRSI.
Son Nguyen
on 17 Dec 06We use LAMP+ (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, lighttpd) extensively. For developers, we use EditPlus as editor, TortoiseSVN as version control, Putty as SSH client, and a bunch of computers/browsers to test our GUI.
Mark O
on 17 Dec 06Am I the only one who loved reading Svante’s comment near the top, “Doctype: 4.01 strict”?
Seth
on 17 Dec 06Estimates/invoicing/payments/time tracking: Cashboard
Project Management: Basecamp
Editing: TextMate
SQL Admin: Navicat (for mac!)
Image Manipulation: Photoshop / Illustrator / Suitcase Fusion
Terminal / Instant Messenger: iTerm / IRSSI / Bitlbee
Email: Gmail / Entourage (because it syncs with my Treo)
Kevin
on 17 Dec 06Web Search: http://www.mrsapo.com
Frank Wiles
on 17 Dec 06vim, Perl, Apache, mod_perl, Gantry, Firefox, and PostgreSQL.
Alfred Chew
on 17 Dec 06You guys are so generous.TQ
matt
on 19 Dec 06JF: “Sure, but it didn’t do what we wanted. That’s why we built Campfire.”
Can you be more specific? IRC and the occasional adium tend to handle most things I want…just wondering what functionality others use that i don’t.
JF
on 19 Dec 06Matt, try Campfire. Share some files, upload some images, roll back to old transcripts. You’ll see how it’s very different from IRC where it matters. Fundamentally they are both group chat tools, but that’s where the similarities end.
And finally, as with all of our products, there is no install, servers, upgrades, updates, config required. You may like to tinker with an IRC server, but our customers don’t. They just want hassle-free stuff that works 10 seconds after they sign up.
matt
on 19 Dec 06JF: ahh…ok. We also use wikis and what not, but I can see how a unified application for that could make sense.
Jon "web design noob" Wade
on 19 Dec 06I use:
Web-hosting – Jumpline.com – although at the moment I do not make use of their many applications Publishing – Blogger, using a non-Blogger template and CSS (I did plan to move to Wordpress, but now used to Blogger and I like it…. even though the uploads can be slow). HTML editor – NVU Graphics / logos – Photoshop FTP – CoffeeCup Free FTP
I am still quite new to this game, so will take on board some the the above advice. Want to try out Writeboard as I have heard good things about that.
Cheers,
Jon.
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