NewsFire I’ve tried many feed readers in the past. Online readers like Google Reader and Bloglines, and native software (of which I strange enough can not remember a single one). NewsFire isn’t special in the RSS reader space, and that’s what I like about it. It does one thing, and it does that well: It…
When I first got a MacBook Pro when I started at Ibuildings, I asked around which apps I would really need in my day to day work. One of the suggestions I got was Textmate, which was definitely a good choice. Another suggestion I got was Quicksilver, a launcher app. For years I used Quicksilver,…
Wunderlist is a free TODO system built by 6Wunderkinder. In essence it is very simple: You can have multiple lists, and each list can have multiple TODO items. There are some additional features, such as “starring” an item, which then gets a higher priority (is put on the top of the specified list), the option…
Git When I started with PHP and version control, CVS was the main VCS to use. Not just because it was the best (this is actually not a fact), but mostly because all the hosting services out there supported it, most specifically, SourceForge did. It worked in terms of version control, but it was not…
The web interface Google’s web interface is already really useful. It allows me to have a quick overview of my week or even month. What I really like about this is that I can also have external public calendars added to that view. For me, these would be things like Dutch holidays (since I have…
Textmate Using a Mac, Textmate was probably one of the first apps I’ve ever purchased. And a great purchase it was. With the Textmate bundles you can extend the editor to be an editor for just about any language you want. It can also do cool stuff such as colorcoding diffs or converting a Markdown…
The first piece of software I want to describe is my IDE. The IDE is without a doubt the heart of my workday (even though my Wakoopa profile seems to disagree), as I spend a lot of my working time writing code. In the past, I’ve used many different IDEs. I started with Eclipse, moved…