Well I figured since everybody else is doing it, why not hop on the bandwagon.
These are my tools of the trade:
Hardware
- 2009 Apple MacBook Pro 13" running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I got this not too long ago, and it completed my operating system trilogy.
- Dell Inspiron 6400 running Ubuntu 9.04. My lifeblood in university and still a solid laptop.
- Custom Intel Core 2 Quad desktop w/ 8 GB DDR2 RAM and EVGA nVIDIA 295 GTX video card running Windows 7 RC. My gaming machine, but also for Windows related development.
- Das Keyboards - There is no better keyboard.
Software
The software bits I use are pretty straightforward
- TextMate. Great editor.
- Emacs. Another great editor.
- Git. Best. SCM. Ever.
- Safari. Fast and integrated.
- Firefox. Letting me down lately, but still a solid development platform.
- Chrome. Best. Browser. Ever.
- LaunchBar. I removed everything from and hid the dock. I much prefer to be able to use the keyboard to start things that searching through menus and what not.
- Visutal Studio 2008. For those .NET Windows things.
- Eclipse. For Java stuff.
- The gnu toolchain. For *NIX C hacking.
- Balsamiq. For when I have to do mockups.
- DropBox. When I was in university, I would finish an assignment and print it out to hand it in (the ones I had to hand in a hardcopy for anyway). I would also put it in my DropBox, so that if I forgot to grab the assignment from the printer for whatever reason, it would be in my DropBox without me thinking and I could print it at school. Awesome software.
- Transmit For transferring files in a GUI. Great for Amazon S3 stuff.
- Pixlr Online graphics editing with layer support? Sign me up!
Other things
- Heroku. Best. Ruby Hosting. Ever.
- Google Apps. Who really wants to deal with email and crap? Just Let Google Do It.™