WordPress Mac OS X Sample Toolsets - BKJackson/BKJackson_Wiki GitHub Wiki

Circa Aug-2010 Here is my essential toolset for Mac OS X (always looking for better.) Note i tried NetBeans and gave up on it. Too sluggish and too few features.

  • PhpStorm+XDEBUG - Debugging IDE (Nothing better on the MAC)
  • VirtualHostX - Manages Apache Virtual Hosts Locally (I LOVE this)
  • FileZilla - FTP Client
  • Firefox Firebug - jQuery Debugging
  • Navicat for MySQL - Commercial MySQL client
  • Unfuddle.com - SVN Repository and Task Management for client projects
  • HTTP Scoop - Reasonable HTTP debugger
  • Fraise - Lightweight Text Editor (Fork of Smultron)

Circa Aug-2010 I have a personal subversion repository on my server (Mediatemple dv)

  • A local PHPXref running out of a constantly updated svn checkout of trunk
  • XAMPP
  • Firebug
  • Coda for text editor, SVN, and SSH CLI
  • Transmit for FTP (again, I usually just use SVN) Parallels w/ Windows XP for cross-browser testing
  • Terminal for SVN (sometimes)

Circa Apr-2011

  • FileZilla - FTP Client
  • Firefox Firebug - jQuery Debugging
  • Navicat for MySQL - Commercial MySQL client
  • Unfuddle.com - SVN Repository and Task Management for client projects
  • PhpStorm+Zend Debugger - Debugging IDE (Nothing better on the MAC)
  • VirtualHostX - Manages Apache Virtual Hosts Locally (I LOVE this)
  • Transmit FTP Client w/synchronization
  • Terminal for SVN (sometimes)
  • Fraise - Lightweight Text Editor (Fork of Smultron)
  • Espresso - Text Editor w/great visual regex search & replace
  • Safari 5 + Glims - For inspecting HTML+CSS + Safari Enhancements
  • HTTP Scoop - Reasonable HTTP debugger\
  • Acorn - Image Editor
  • Skitch - Image Annotator and Uploader
  • Balsamiq - Mockups and Wireframes
  • Cinch - Easy Full Screens (OS X should do this but it doesn't)
  • DropBox - Automated core file backup and file synchronizer across computers
  • Paparazzi! - Batchable screen-shot tool
  • TotalFinder - Tabs Finder

For plug-in development, I use Eclipse for PHP development.