Josh Finnie Uses This (Old already… I will update this soon.)

What I use to get stuff done..

What hardware are you using?

My main computer is a mid-2011 Apple iMac. Once they were updated to the quad-core i5 chips, I knew it was time to buy. My fiancee made me pick up the Magic Trackpad along with the computer, and I have to admit I haven’t looked back since. The trackpad is everything one needs in a mouse and more; I haven’t been able to look at a regular mouse since.

For work, I have a corporate-issued HP EliteBook 8440p, which is hooked up to a 19" HP monitor. I don’t do much other than work on this computer. It still runs Windows XP with IE6; with that software, there’s not much I could do with it.

I also have an original 10" EEE PC. I use this mostly for coding while on the go, and it runs the most up-to-date Ubuntu operating system.

And for hosing, I currently use Webfaction and prgmr. Webfaction is where I house all my Flask applications since they have super easy mod_wsgi setup. prgmr is where I play around with system administration; for $5 a month, it is nice to have a sandbox to try new things out.

And what software?

For software, I use Google Chrome along with their suite of products (GMail, Google Docs, G+). I also try to stay as much as I can inside the browser and use TweetDeck’s Chrome app for all my Twitter and Facebook needs.

For coding, I have always been a VIM person, so when I purchased the mac I immediately found MacVIM. MacVIM is great and with the addition of Janus it is top notch.

I have recently been testing out Sublime Text 2 and have to say that I am liking what I am seeing. Sublime seems to just give me a little more than I have with MacVIM allowing me to write code just that much faster. I am still hoping for a VIM key binding plug-in for Sublime; once that comes I will probably use Sublime for life.

Other programs I use on a regular basis are:

• Spotify & Grooveshark for music
• Filezilla for FTP
• QGIS for a awesome open source GIS suite
• Pixelmator for image manipulation
• VirtualBox for keeping Ubuntu even on my mac

What would be your dream setup?

My dream setup would be a MacBook Air that is wirelessly connected to a MacPro, giving me the form factor of the MacBook Air, but the power of the MacPro. They would be always synced (since they are the same computer), yet when I need to be on-the-go, I can have the awesome MacBook Air. And when I am at my desk, I would have the MacBook Air screen, plus two additional screens tied directly to the MacPro.

I would also love the bandwidth and capabilities to host my own stuff; that would definitely be included in my dream setup of the MacPro.