New Mac Dev Box Software Checklist

May 27, 2009 – 1:53 pm

When I get a new Mac, I go through the same steps every time. Yes I use a Mac as a dev box.

Software

Xcode
Adium
Launchbar
iTerm – change defaults to black background. (edit bookmarks, default, background)
Apache HTTP Server (source)
MySQL (source)
PHP (source)
Eclipse PDT
Omnigraffle
Fluid
BBEdit
SubEthaEdit
Git
SVN
Memcached

Tweaks

Remove everything from Dock.

Fix the look of the dock.

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

/etc/bashrc tweaks

alias v=”ls -lahG”
alias vi=”vim”

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