Toolbox
These are the tools I use to get my jobs complete.
Depending on the requirements these are used in concert with each other. And none of these are sacrosanct, if I find better or am recommended something better, a tool may be relegated to the dust bin as many have in the past.
Frameworks
- Kohana
- PHP framework with very clean and easy to read code.
- Django
- Python Framework with a great built in admin to jump start content input
- JQuery
- JavaScript Framework. It's ubiquitous and makes JS code so much easier to prototype new features.
- JQueryUI
- Lots of great UI components to quickly make admins more user friendly
PHP CMS
- Drupal
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- Display Suite
- Views
- Webform
- WYSIWYG
- Devel
- CTools
- Module Filter
- SilverStripe
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- Addressable
- WordPress
ASP.NET CMS
Icons
Sliders
Gallery
Rich Text
Uploaders
JS Helpers
- jquery-mousewheel
HTML Starting Point
Responsive
Cross Browser Support
Modal
OS
- OS X - Mountain Lion
- This is my main Development Machine, it has most of the awesome apps I use to get my work done and everything looks just a tad nicer.
- Ubuntu Server & Desktop
- Most of the servers I setup are Ubuntu servers including the one hosting this site and my home media centre is run on Ubuntu Desktop.
- Windows Server & Desktop
- I keep a Windows machine close. Any C# development is too heavy to run in a VM for any length of time. Currently on Windows 8. Also have Windows 7 and Windows XP on VMs just in case I need to test them out.
Search Indexing
Desktop Apps
- Skitch
- Skype
- Adobe Masters Suite
- Transmit
- TextMate
- Sublime Text Editor
- This is becoming my TextMate 1 replacement for 90%. It has a VI mode, all the shortcuts I am used to from TextMate and most of the plugins and more.
- Safari
- Firefox
- Chrome Browser
- VMWare Fusion
Command Line Tools
- Brew
- After a while using MacPorts it was a breath of fresh air to use Homebrew, the compiling was way shorter as it didn't compile things that already existed in OSX. And it was colorful:)
- Git
Web Apps
Tools I am keen to learn
These are ones that I am giving serious thoughts to either replace or include it the box.
- Symfony2
- It's getting attention from the Drupal community because components are being included for Drupal 8.
- CodeIgniter
- Similar and fork to Kohana with a large following.
- CoffeeScript
- My friend Colin Olson has been pitching this so I am keeping an eye on it.
- Flask
- The route I would like to take in to the python world.
- Wordpress - Advanced Custom Fields
- Most of the programmers I know who use Wordpress swear by this tool.
Dust Bin
These tools have seen their day, I don't really use them any more in favour of better or possibly just more popular tools.
- YUI2
- This seemed to have promise but didn't get the pickup it deserved. I love their autocomplete flexibility and usability.