Following on from my post on the Top 10 Mac Productivity Apps, I’m now going to share what I feel, are the top 10 web development apps.
Now, obviously my choices will not suite many programmers. For this reason, please bear in mind that I’m a PHP developer, and my choices focus on PHP/HTML/CSS development. There are going to be a few repeated apps, simply because there’s a fine line between the two subjects.
Ok, lets get started! (more…)
I’ve recently been working on modifying my workspace to allow for greater productivity. This includes my physical desk setup as well as my desktop and apps. This is going to be the first in a series of posts on Mac productivity, and where better to start than with the Apps!
I do a lot of web development on my Mac’s. My current setup is to have my iMac as my ‘main’ display. To my far right I have my new MacBook Pro that I purchased on the day they came out (yes…I’m a fanatic). The MBP has a second display connected which sits in between the iMac and MBP. I’ve got FireFox running on that display, showing phpMyAdmin, Terminal and DirectAdmin. The main MBP display just runs Skype and iTunes. I then use my iPhone to control iTunes remotely to save having to turn around to keep skipping those naff songs that I’ve not gotten round to removing from my library!
On the iMac I do all the coding and design. I also have a (more…)
As the entire computing world continues to move further and further onto Internet based applications, many have tried to come up with a way to allow all these fantastic applications to be used as one, much like your computers user account.
OpenID is the only project that seems to have succeeded at taking a step into providing an online identity. If you’ve not used OpenID before, it basically allows you to have 1 account to use across thousands of websites.
I’ve now integrated OpenID support into RickyMills.com through the use of a great wordpress plugin by Will Norris. Additionally, I created my own OpenID realm so I can login with “RickyMills.com”! This was possible through the use of a great little PHP script called phpMyID. I recommend it to anyone wanting to create an OpenID based on their own website address!
Anyone interested in OpenID should take a look at http://www.openid.net for all the details!
