Being in a stereotypical corporate environment, I have to use a Windows machine at work but I've used nothing but Macs at home for years. There is nothing I can't do on my Mac that I can't do on my Windows PC, though as some have mentioned there are some things in a corporate world that are a little more efficiently geared towards Windows. Here are some of the things I use daily on my Mac for development and work-a-day activities:
- Eclipse with Flex Builder, CFEclipse, Adobe's ColdFusion extensions and various other plug-ins. - TextMate (my programmers text editor of choice). BBEdit, TextWrangler (a free editor by the makers of BBEdit), and Smultron are also good. - ColdFusion 8. Since Mac OSX has Apache built-in, I was able to integrate CF with it fairly easily. - Cisco VPN (for connecting to work). I also use Shimo, a fantastic free front-end for Cisco VPN that makes connecting/disconnecting a breeze. - Microsoft Office, in particular Entourage for working with Exchange. - Remote Desktop Connection (Microsoft's RDP client). - Terminal (OSX's command-line). - Safari, Firefox, and Opera for testing. - Aqua Data Studio (I use this versus Microsoft's Enterprise Manager and Oracle's tools) - MySQL (for occasional light-weight projects, otherwise I use SQL Server on our development servers at work) - CSSEdit (a great shareware CSS editor) - Plaxo (a great free service that I have installed on both my Exchange calendars and contacts in sync with my home's Address Book and iCal programs). - X-Mind or Freemind (for the occasional mindmap). - OmniGraffle (similar to Visio, but in my opinion produces nicer looking results). - Snapz Pro X (I mainly use it for making demos). - Yummy FTP (my FTP client of choice, though there are a ton of great FTP clients for OSX). - Adobe Creative Suite. Some of the above is commercial, some shareware, and some freeware. The most expensive items were Microsoft Office, Adobe's Creative Suite, and Aqua Data Studio. Most others are either free or I got through shareware bundles from macheist.com or macupdate.com. Flex Builder 3 licenses are fully cross-platform now, greatly simplifying things there. Hope this helps some. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
