Since a number of people that come to this little blog of mine are looking for WordPress plugins, I thought it might be somewhat interesting to post the tools I use to create such plugins and web sites in general. I know there’s probably stuff I haven’t heard of, so if you’ve got something you use that’s not listed here, feel free to post it in the comments.

Hardware:

• MacBook Pro — primary development machine
• Dell server running Linux for hosting and testing

My Software Toolbox:

• Textmate — favourite text editor for code. Tons of useful bundles.
• Firefox + Firebug — essential for debugging CSS and JavaScript
• MAMP — local Apache / MySQL / PHP stack for Mac
• Sequel Pro (formerly CocoaMySQL) — MySQL GUI client for Mac
• Transmit — FTP/SFTP client for Mac
• Terminal — for everything else (SSH, git, command-line tools)
• Safari — cross-browser testing
• Photoshop — for any graphics work

If you have recommendations for tools not listed here, add them in the comments below!

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