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My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by Lio »

super_mario wrote: post #69
danneu wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm probably going to buy a MBA soon after working with Debian & Openbox on a dated netbook for too long. I spend most of my time in side-by-side Vim/shell/ssh sessions inside tmux within the Guake terminal. If MacVim is a standalone app, why do people use it? Isn't one of the nicest things about Vim that it lives in the terminal and can be launched from any root in the terminal?

The only good reason to use MacVim is support for millions of colors so color schemes look nicer. It also supports full screen mode (now in Lion Terminal does too, but before this used to be a missing feature), also it's easier to launch MacVim as external editing tool for other apps like Firefox with Pentadactyl extension (this allows you to edit any text box/area with vim). Other than that, you really don't need Ma…

Using the GUI version of MacVim does give you a couple of other really important features which no one will be able to do with out....

...a squiggly redline under your spelling mistakes and easy mapping of the command key for shortcuts. I think you might also be able to do more with fonts (e.g. italics for comments) too.

On a more serious note, I tend to use both MacVim and iTerm 2 in maximised windows (not full screen as such) on separate monitors. E.g. iTerm2 on the laptop, MacVim external.

I could run MacVim in a terminal but I don't get anything from it either. Of course working remotely is a different matter.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by rimantas »

cjensen wrote: post #21
jz wrote: post #17

I am genuinely surprised at how much others spend on software. I started totaling up his list (excluding monthly services like dropbox) and stopped when I reached $500, which was right around Cornerstone.

You've already sunk money into a Computer. If you pay a little more per year on software, how much better is your computer? It's a tradeoff which depends upon how much money you have, and how much utility you will derive. For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and convenient svn utility on the Mac. If I were using svn on the Mac frequently, Cornerstone (which is quite expensive by my standards) would be a nece…

  > For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and
  > convenient svn utility on the Mac.
Back in SVN days I used SmartSVN (http://syntevo.com/smartsvn/index.html ) on Windows, Linux and Mac. Free version was enough for my needs.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by super_mario »

pyre wrote: post #92
super_mario wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean things like 2>&1 or 2>/dev/null (redirecting error stream to stdout etc). This did not work for me last time I tried it. This coupled with significant lag when scrolling/listing huge dir, typing made me quickly abandon it. Terminal app does everything I really need and it's fast and reliable.

> I mean things like 2>&1 or 2>/dev/null > (redirecting error stream to stdout etc) These things are usually handled by the shell...

Sure, but if I execute a command like

    `sudo find / -ctime 0 2>/dev/null`
in both iTerm and Terminal side by side, I would expect them both to print out the same thing, but that was not the case.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by duggan »

Groxx wrote: post #83
notJim wrote: post #73

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Strange, I've never found Spotlight to be that slow or frustrating. I just tried it again to be sure I wasn't kidding myself, and find that I type about 3 keys, and then there's the app I want by the time I'm finished pressing the 3rd key.

It's speedy for the first few months, but once I build up a few dozen gigabytes of documents it starts to slow to an absolute crawl. Useful when searching for documents, absolutely, and faster than alternatives. But worthless for applications, which I open far more often than the average document (from a launcher, that is). But that might be because my .Spotlight folder is > 1 gigabyte. And that's smaller than it has…

Seems like a simpler alternative here is to disable Spotlight indexing on everything but Applications and System Preferences. First thing I do on a new Mac.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by gbrindisi »

What I really miss is a good tiling windows manager. I tried many apps out there, OptimanlLayout been the latest, and I still can't find a nice productive experience (a la xmonad, scrotwm or awesome).

(I know I can use x11.app but It's freaking unusable)

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by Groxx »

duggan wrote: post #114
Groxx wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's speedy for the first few months, but once I build up a few dozen gigabytes of documents it starts to slow to an absolute crawl. Useful when searching for documents, absolutely, and faster than alternatives. But worthless for applications, which I open far more often than the average document (from a launcher, that is). But that might be because my .Spotlight folder is > 1 gigabyte. And that's smaller than it has…

Seems like a simpler alternative here is to disable Spotlight indexing on everything but Applications and System Preferences. First thing I do on a new Mac.

Thereby losing all search for and within documents, when faster alternatives for the most-common action exists? It's a tradeoff I'd never make, but it makes sense, and then it'd probably be lightning-fast.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by sifi »

maximilian wrote: post #18

> There is absolutely no reason for me to have 16GB of RAM other than to brag about the fact that I have such a ridiculous amount of memory. 16GB in a desktop really isn't that ridiculous especially as a developer that might run VMs. In a non-mac with 4 ram slots, its <$100, which is very attainable. He is running an iMac with only 2 slots, making the RAM more like $250, but for a developer, this still isn't that muc…

I agree, I always end up hitting my 4GB limit with a VM open and Chrome with 12 tabs. Upgrading will be the next thing that I ask from the boss.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by davepeck »

arb99 wrote: post #105
davepeck wrote: post #40

Hey neat, my app https://GetCloak.com/ made it into the list. And we're still beta -- though v1.0 is coming quite soon. Fun!

looks good and like something i've been looking for (easy to set up vpn when using public wifi), but with only limited contact details on your site hard to build trustworthiness tbh.

Hi arb99,

If you click "learn more" you get a lot of information about both the company and the team, including our address, phone number, photos and bios of the three of us, and links to our Twitter accounts.

What contact information were you looking for?

We see ourselves as (in part) being in the business of earning trust. That's obviously a difficult job, so whatever suggestions you can offer we'd definitely appreciate.

Cheers, Dave

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by chairface »

super_mario wrote: post #38
makmanalp wrote: post #5

If Terminal.app feels like plastic scissors, you can try iterm2. It beats the crap out of Terminal in terms of configurability. https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2 http://iterm2.com/

And it's broken. Screen updates are way slower, and stream redirection plain doesn't work. Terminal app is pretty good.

This sounds more like the original iTerm than the newer iTerm2 to me. They're separate projects.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by cjensen »

CJefferson wrote: post #57
tincholio wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and convenient svn utility on the Mac. What's wrong with doing "brew install svn" ?

What's wrong with the copy of svn already distributed with Mac OS X? :)

Productivity is much better with a decent GUI like TortoiseSVN. Want to see the diffs for multiple files you have changed? Just double click each. No mucking about with command line windows and cutting and pasting filenames or what have you.

On Windows there is TortoiseSVN which makes svn more efficient. On *nix, I used the XEmacs module. Of course I know how to use the command line also and do use it for one-file commits on occasion.

If you are using SVN routinely and do not use a GUI, you are wasting your time.

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