Shame on me for neglecting to write anything for such a long time. The problem is that in the last months I have been so busy graduating, enjoying some free time at the seaside, learning for the masters degree exam(which I failed) and working on a new top secret project, that I had nor the time nor the inclination to blog.
Since I’ve been so busy working and developing my skills I would like to enumerate some tools I started using this summer.
That’s foolish. You pick the one right tool. - Anton Chigurh
Nevermind what I wrote earlier. When you know you have a problem, it is foolish not to solve it and you need the right tool for the job. So the secret project I was talking about is build with RoR and it’s taking a longer time for I have to learn my way through. The resource that helped me pass the first hiccups was the learning rails podcast—and I definitely recommend it. Being familiar with MVC really eased my first steps.
I would also like to recommend Stack Overflow for all your programming questions. Some very good answers come in matters of minutes. The only drawback is that there are a lot of questions for the .NET crowd. Kudos to Jeff and Joel for making this happen.
Things is the dream to-do list manager on any platform, period. As this week the Cultured Code guys announced they would be releasing the 1.0 version at MacWorld Expo 2009, I can’t wait to give them my money—they truly deserve it. Note: I haven’t tried the iPhone version of Things yet as I have trouble creating an iTunes account, but I hope to solve that problem soon.
I was looking for a long time for an easy to use time tracking app. I even wanted to build one myself to satisfy my own needs. Thankfully, I found Harvest. It may not be everything I want, but it satisfies my needs decently enough so I don’t have to use pen and paper anymore. Oh, I’ve been there. The plus, is the iPhone optimized page that helps me track time on the go. The killer feature for me, though, is the dashboard widget—can’t live without it now.
CSS Edit I always thought I can code my CSS without the aid of any visual help. I thought that was the only way to keep quality under control. A combination of a decent text editor, Firefox and Firebug was enough for me. Looking to improve my productivity—I wanted a more refined solution. As I took the trial version of CSS Edit out for a spin, I found bliss. Milestones, the selector management, X-Ray and Live preview are the cherries on top of a very delicious cake. The code will be at my standards and with a boot in productivity. I will definitely purchase it soon. Also Mr. Rabbit will pull out of the hat a new, complete, editing software Espresso that will compete with Panic’s Coda. Though Coda is really, really good, especially now that it has a Subversion client, I still miss the power of Textmate’s editing(Coda hasn’t even got a code folding mechanism, as far as I know). I hope Espresso will fulfill all my needs as one can extend it as one likes through Sugars.
I hope you found something here worth using yourself. This summer I have made some decisions about my lifestyle and my work life. New goals. But that will be revealed in future posts. So, what is better than a busy summer? A busier autumn.
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