My Monkey Do

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October 10, 2022

After 9 years, I thought I’d update this list of tools. Only a few passed the test of time:

  • Forklift – (paid) I forgot why I stopped using FileZilla. I think it was just becoming an eyesore.
  • Local WP – Easy setup, easy install, easy to manage WordPress sites.
  • SourceTree – to push/pull your code so it stays in synch with other environments you may have or other teammates.
  • Visual Studio Code – THE editor being used today. Extensions, open source, supported by a big company (Microsoft).  
  • Slack – Still the top chat program.  Crazy, I don’t remember the name “HipChat”. I just remember there was a chat program between AIM and Slack that I used.
  • ImageOptim – To optimize images, taking up less disk space and load faster.
  • Webpack – This is a bundler that has a very steep learning curve. But once set up, it’s not bad.

Virtual Box is still used occasionally, but tools like BrowserStack is enough and IE not being used (finally) helps too.

Dropbox is still worthy to use, but Google Drive is much easier to use. Although it’s not in the list because I don’t use it much.

October 25, 2013

This week I had to temporarily work on a new laptop so I had to set up my dev environment from scratch.  Of course, I wanted the same tools and apps I had on my permanent environment.  I find that these tools and apps stick with you for some time so below is a list of apps that I needed to install on my new development environment.

  • Dropbox – to easily share files between computers both locally and over the web.
  • FileZilla – to upload files to the servers
  • MAMP – to test your code locally before uploading to the live servers
    • See MAMP Optimizations to start MAMP on startup without the GUI.
    • Remember to set the <Directory> override to AllowOverride All if you want your WordPress or other sites to use .htaccess.
  • SourceTree – to push/pull your code so it stays in synch with other environments you may have or other teammates.
    • Set up your SSH keys using BitBucket’s tutorial.
  • Sublime Text 2  – to edit your files.
  • WordPress – not so much a tool, but it is part of the testing environment.
  • Slack or HipChat -or whatever trending chat program.  to communicate to others
  • Virtual Box – To run those pesky versions of Internet Explorer.
    • Then head on to get free VMs from Microsoft so you can get all the lovely versions of IE.
  • ImageOptim – To optimize images, taking up less disk space and load faster.