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

Post by techosaurus » Thu, Dec 22, 2011, 8:37 AM UTC

cjensen wrote: post #120

CJefferson wrote: post #57

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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 co…

Post by uggedal » Fri, Dec 23, 2011, 11:06 AM UTC

davidjairala wrote: post #110

uggedal wrote: post #102

My 11" Macbook Air setup is a bit unconventional: * Debian Wheezy (I haven't been able to create a customized and focused OS X setup) * Puppet (For managing the installation and configuration of all the following applications) * ssh * zsh (beats bash in my book) * ufw (best alternative I've found on Linux to BSDs pf) * tmux (obsoleted screen for me) * vim * ack (intelligent recursive file search) * git * rsync * curl…

What kind of battery time do you get? I've been thinking of installing Debian on my MBA 11" for a while, the only thing holding me back has been battery time.

Post by duggan » Mon, Dec 26, 2011, 1:51 AM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #116

duggan wrote: post #114

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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.