Thursday, November 02, 2006

Yesterday my new MacBook Pro 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo arrived and tonight I'm going to try and sort it out so I can start developing on it at work. The beauty of starting from scratch is that I can update my applications and maybe switch to something which fits my work profile better. To start with I'm going to buy skEdit for all my html/php/css editing I've had a play with the demo and I think its well worth the money ($24.95) and has one thing over Textmate which is the code completion for html and css, something I have found a massive timesaver in Dreamweaver.

Next up I'm going to need an ftp client, none come more highly recommended at my work than Transmit, again at a bargain price of $29.95 you can't go wrong, but if you are a real tightarse there is Cyberduck which is free but lacks quite a few features of Transmit.

I'm definitely going to need a GUI for MySQL and while I really like phpMyAdmin there is a better solution, CocoaMySQL, it's free and doesn't have the obvious associated delays with an online interface and if you're impatient like me you'll really appreciate that!

Another bit of software I found yesterday is XTorrent, I haven't used it yet but it looks promising!

I'm sure I will have more to post on this subject once I start using it!

Jon 4:13 PM Permalink