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1. Κατ’ αρχήν να σε συγχαρώ για το switch. Όσοι χρήστες έφυγαν από pc και πήγαν σε mac δεν ξαναγύρισαν ποτέ. Κατάλαβαν αμέσως πόσο διαφορετική έγινε η ζωή τους :)

   Εγώ είμαι ένας πολύ παλιός χρήστης mac (από το 1985 με MacPlus) και παρ’ όλο που υποχρεωτικά λόγω δουλειάς χρησιμοποιώ και pc, δεν αλλάζω τα mac με τίποτα.

   Να συμπληρώσω λοιπόν στη χρήσιμη λίστα προγραμμάτων τα παρακάτω:

   – Transmit. Μακράν το καλύτερο FTP
   – Coda. (πολύ σωστά το προτείνεις!) είναι o best Code editor.
   – NewsFire και Vienna. Καλύτεροι RSS Readers
   – Caffeine για να μην “κοιμάται” ο mac…
   – AppCleaner για ολική απεγκατάσταση προγραμμάτων μαζί με settings κλπ
   – Wallet ή 1password για αποθήκευση passwords
   – RipIt για DVD rips
   – iWork και πετάς για πάντα office κλπ
   – Clips. Φοβερός clipboard manager
   – Little Snitch. Απαραίτητο! Software firewall με rules για να ξέρεις πότε και ποιό λογισμικό συνδέεται πού (και αν θέλεις του το απαγορεύεις)
   – Transmission. Ο καλύτερος bittorrent client

2. Ωραία λίστα, Ether. Θα δοκιμάσω το Vienna, Caffeine, AppCleaner και το Little Snitch. Thanks.

3. I agree on all points except the code editor. Also, there’s one VITAL app that I could never live without that’s not mentioned, Quicksilver.

   Seriously, give Quicksilver a spin NOW: http://github.com/tiennou/blacktree-alchemy

   Regarding Coda, it’s kind of nice for quickly editing remote files. But for serious programming, TextMate seriously wins and is lightyears ahead of Coda. Both Coda and Espresso were made to combat TextMate and it’s lack of built-in FTP/SFTP support. But in all honesty, even without it, TextMate wins… lol

   And personally, I’ve shifted away from editing remote files. I have everything locally, checked into a Git repo, and depending on the project, I deploy either with Capistrano, or a simple set of rake tasks that just calls rsync. And I do that even for plain HTML sites.

4. So, Jimeh, I think I have to digg on TextMate you said and compare them. I don’t do that much of coding; only editing some css, html and in rare occasions the php of wordpress plugins — all editing is done for this blog. Also, I don’t use Coda for the buil-tin FTP. I didn’t like it; prefer the Cyberduck app.

   Gee, I have to tinker with Git, too. I don’t even know what Capistrano is. So, when I find me some time I’ll digg on Git, Capistrano and how you deploy your files from these services.

   Thanks — really — mate! keep rocking!

5. I do prefer Cyberduck myself too actually now a days, haven’t used Coda for about 6-8 months now that I think about it… lol

   Capistrano is an extremely powerful deployment system written in Ruby, mainly for Rails applications. But you can also use it for PHP projects or whatever. For Rails projects, I always use it.

   For my site however, which is basically a set of HTML/CSS/JS files, I use home-grown rake tasks. So to deploy, I just run “rake deploy” in a terminal, and it uses rsync to push all changes.

   The Rakefile for my own site/blog is a bit complex, as I have tasks to generate the plain HTML/CSS from the Jekyll project I’m using. But pay particular attention to the deploy tasks:
   http://github.com/jimeh/jimeh.me/blob/master/Rakefile

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