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Thanks 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.
I agree Sequel Pro is awesome, hands down best MySql client I have used on any platform. I also love Textmate, great text editor. For CSS - CSS Edit can't be beat however the developer is no longer offering it as a standalone app. :(
Can anyone recommend a good GUI on Mac for Postgres? Sequel Pro is amazing, but it unfortunately only supports MySQL.
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Ah, macports is a bit fragile, yes :) I'm pretty happy with homebrew, however (for the most part). Plus writing formulas for homebrew is really easy.
+1 on Homebrew. I had both fink and MacPorts running at one time. Homebrew is more pleasant in every respect (my opinion, of course).
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I missed apt-get a teeny tiny bit but Homebrew is amazing. I'm not really into customizing my system all that much either so it wasn't that either. It's Lion that has me a little upset. First off, Lion has replaced GCC with LLVM which for the most part is fine but I was doing some work with Ruby that I started on my Linux machine then when I cloned it on my Mac (which is where I do the majority of my work) I had prob…
AFAIK Xcode still ships with gcc, even though llvm-gcc is default. I regularly use "brew install --use-gcc" for things that don't work with llvm-gcc. I believe rake should allow you to specify a C compiler on the command line. Even if it doesn't, you can temporarily change your CC environment variable to point to the gcc binary instead of llvm-gcc and things will probably work. Probably .
More information is in the Homebrew issue:
Can anyone recommend a good GUI on Mac for Postgres? Sequel Pro is amazing, but it unfortunately only supports MySQL.
There is always pgAdmin ( http://www.pgadmin.org/ ) which is very close to the Postgres core development and thus is always updated to support the latest features of Postgres. It suffers a lot from the has-to-work-on-all-platforms UI design issues though (even though it uses wxWidgets). Personally, I hardly ever use the GUI tool (the exception is explaining really big query plans) because the command line psql client…
When I need to pick apart a query plan, I paste it into http://explain.depesz.com.
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Another great way is via the json ruby gem, which installs a prettifier which can be used from the command line, like this: curl 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitter&include_rts=1 | prettify_json.rb| less
Another way to do it without having to install anything extra: curl " http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_... | python -m json.tool | pbcopy
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Awww come on, windows isn't that bad, I find VS2008 or 2010 + Kiln to be a pretty good combo.
I can't stand Windows. I don't hate it out of some fanboy fetish as that's not fair. With Linux and Mac is can do pretty much anything without jumping through any hoops. As a web developer you're basically dealing with Linux on the server in most cases and most open source tools are built with Limix in mind as the final destination. Setting up a development environment with just about anything is very consistent and…
I agree Sequel Pro is awesome, hands down best MySql client I have used on any platform. I also love Textmate, great text editor. For CSS - CSS Edit can't be beat however the developer is no longer offering it as a standalone app. :(
If anyone's looking for something like Sequel Pro but for SQLite, I recommend Base. Sadly, not free. I only wish I could find a good Mac client for Postgres. pgAdmin III is awful.
I haven't, but they have a full suite of tools.