My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools
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My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools
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#2I've found that when it comes to GUI tools the Mac is your best friend. Even a good majority of command lime stuff is really a joy to use. I'll never abandon the Mac but I must say that the deeper into my programming journey I get the more I'm reaching for my Linux machine. Last week I caught myself thinking of dumping the Mac altogether! But that's heresy and I quickly banished those thoughts.
The Mac gives you a really great portion of 2 worlds - the ability to operate from the terminal much like Linux but with amazing support for anything requiring you to either use or create GUI apps. The only problem is that once you venture off too far in one direction or the other you're either wishing you were on your Mac or you Linux machine. I don't subscribe to the belief that on OS is superior to another. Mac and Linux each have their very special uses. Instead I subscribe to the belief that 2 OSes are better than the third (unless you're coding for Windows exclusively in which case I wouldn't want to be you).
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#3Thanks for the heads up on Jason. I work with a lot of web apis and this looks like a great tool for browsing json responses.
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#4GitX is good (and free), but if you're looking for the best Git client for Mac, without a doubt it's Tower (http://www.git-tower.com/).
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#5GitX is good (and free), but if you're looking for the best Git client for Mac, without a doubt it's Tower ( http://www.git-tower.com/ ).
I've been using GitX for months and it's pretty good, but it still buggy at times. I've been using the GitX (L) fork, since the original GitX doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore. It's available here: http://gitx.laullon.com/
A few days ago a co-worker turned me on to SourceTree (http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/), which is also free and developed by Atlassian. I've got to say it's a bit more polished and so far it looks like it might be replacing GitX for me.
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#6Thanks for the heads up on Jason. I work with a lot of web apis and this looks like a great tool for browsing json responses.
The webkit inspector is also great for that. you can paste js and browse it in a nice way.
On most pages you can even just open the inspector (cmd alt i) and do $.get() to inspect json from random places
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#7My application Library Inspector is also pretty useful if you are a developer: http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/software/library-inspector
If you are developing Mac and iOS applications it is especially useful as it gives .a and .dylib files custom icons indicating their architecture.
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#8I've found that when it comes to GUI tools the Mac is your best friend. Even a good majority of command lime stuff is really a joy to use. I'll never abandon the Mac but I must say that the deeper into my programming journey I get the more I'm reaching for my Linux machine. Last week I caught myself thinking of dumping the Mac altogether! But that's heresy and I quickly banished those thoughts. The Mac gives you a re…
Out of curiosity, what were you missing from Linux?
That's not to say I don't miss things from Linux (/proc, XMonad to name two), just nothing all that much.
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#9Jason looks great. It definitely makes JSON management easy. I loved it and even donated money.
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#10I've found that when it comes to GUI tools the Mac is your best friend. Even a good majority of command lime stuff is really a joy to use. I'll never abandon the Mac but I must say that the deeper into my programming journey I get the more I'm reaching for my Linux machine. Last week I caught myself thinking of dumping the Mac altogether! But that's heresy and I quickly banished those thoughts. The Mac gives you a re…
Out of curiosity, what were you missing from Linux? That's not to say I don't miss things from Linux (/proc, XMonad to name two), just nothing all that much.
For me it's a package manager that does not require a compile every time I want to install something.
edit: also macports seems fragile too.