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.
- If you want to open files via the terminal, follow this updated tutorial.
- 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.
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