Eventually every mac blogger has to list his favourite apps, it’s what we do. (I didn’t include the usual, Adium, Colloquy, etc. but felt they needed a mention). So here I go.

TextMate

Any of you who know me, know I never shut up about TextMate. Why? There’s nothing like it. No other editor is able to offer so many features yet stay so easy-to-use and lightweight. The power of TextMate is in the bundles. TextMate ships with bundles and language definitions for every language you could think of.

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For a long time I’ve hosted my sites on a MediaTemple VPS or Virtual Private Server. For a pricey $50 a month you get a pretty nice package and 24/7 support but recently I was turned onto Slicehost. They offer great plans for very reasonable prices and great support too (always important).

They also offer a choice of operating systems, not forcing me to use my now least favourite operating system: centOS. I chose ubuntu and following on from last weeks post about project management, I will talk about how to install and configure a subversion server running on Ubuntu 8.0.4.

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Managing projects is hard. I’ve come to learn this over the last year. [poor] Project management is also without a doubt one of the factors why Hippstr has been delayed for almost a year now. So I’m going to share with you a few of the tools, services and practices that have helped improve my productivity and my team’s.

Those who are around me often will know I never shut up about how great basecamp is. And it really is.

“Basecamp is the smarter, easier, more elegant way to collaborate on your internal and client projects.”
37signals

Basecamp is a really simple and easy-to-use project management system. With great to-do management, a forum like “messages” section and milestones (There’s more but this is the important sutff). Read More …