My Local Habitat
Wed, Jun 3, 2009 by Scott
I'm interested in hearing about other peoples local environments - developer or designers! What applications do you use the most and how do you use them together to streamline your workflow and achieve maximum efficiency? I like to think I have it down, but I guess what it all boils down to is what you are comfortable with. Still, I long for less keystrokes, if only one.
Lately I've been growing irritated with my text editor - TextMate for the mac. Some negative things about it are really becoming quite apparant to me, one thing in particular is the searching capabilities, especially when dealing with a really large project. It takes at least 3 - 4 minutes for me to find something (on this one particular project) and lately it's just been hanging. Maybe the answer here is a re-install, but another answer would be to try something else. Any suggestions (other than Coda)?
Probably the most useful application I use on my Mac is Quicksilver. It's awesome for moving Drupal modules into their appropriate places. It puts all of your tools right at your fingertips, like Art Directors Toolkit (rulers, color pallets, color sampling, hex values). What an unbelievable combination...it's like Crosby and Malkin on the powerplay.
James posted on June 3, 2009 7:00 pm
I'd be happy to! Give this a try:
- Select the module you just downloaded (after unzipping of course)
- With it selected, invoke quicksilver and press command-g. You should see your module in the left window.
- press tab, and type 'move'. Press tab again and navigate to your sites contrib folder. Once you have the contrib folder, don't go into it - just press enter and it is moved!
This is so much easier than dragging folders through the finder once you get used to it. There are plenty of great tutorials on the Quicksilver site. Also google 'quicksilver tutorials'.
Hope that helps
Steve posted on June 3, 2009 5:18 pm
I'm curious about your reference to Quicksilver. I'm new to the Mac (MacBook Pro, in my case), so I'm still learning how to use the UI. I use Quicksilver for searching, but I didn't know it could be used for moving things around. That sounds very useful. Can you give me some instructions or point me to some instructions on how to do that?
Thanks.
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