Last night we hosted the latest Bay Area Web Freelancers’ Meetup, where we shared tools of our trade. Everyone who had something to share just plugged into the projector and showed off the stuff they like. We already have better productivity, less eye strain, safer WordPress sites and an overall better outlook.
Below are the tools that were shared, and thanks to Luke McCormick for making the list!
Alfred
http://www.alfredapp.com/
Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.
MacVim
https://code.google.com/p/macvim/
MacVim is the text editor Vim for Mac OS X.
Moom
http://manytricks.com/moom/
Tool to easily arrange windows on Mac using your keyboard
Bug Herd
http://www.bugherd.com/
Allows you to bug track by placing pins on your website where issues exist and assigning those issues to teammates
Trello
https://trello.com/
Collaborative organizing tool. Similar to Asana or Eventbrite?
Push Pin Planner
http://pushpinplanner.com/
For resource planning
helpful in managing the time allocation of a team
Blog Vault
http://blogvault.net/
Wordpress website backups
Web Flow
https://webflow.com/
New responsive web design tool no one has tried yet. Similar to Adobe Edge Reflow?
Node JS
http://nodejs.org/
For building scalable network applications in JavaScript.
Yeoman
http://yeoman.io/
Comprised of three tools for improving your productivity and satisfaction when building a web app: yo (the scaffolding tool), grunt (the build tool) and bower (for package management).
Yo
https://github.com/yeoman/yo
CLI tool for scaffolding out Yeoman projects.
Grunt
http://gruntjs.com/
An automated JavaScript task runner.
Bower
http://bower.io/
Package manager by Twitter.
Phabricator
http://phabricator.org/
Bug tracker from Facebook. Includes code review, wiki and more.
WorkFlowy
https://workflowy.com/
Way to organize your brain into nested lists.
Sublime Text
http://www.sublimetext.com/
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
Emmet
http://emmet.io/
Sublime plugin to improve html/css workflow.
Sublime SFTP
http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp
Adds direct SFTP access to Sublime.
Underscore.js
http://underscorejs.org/
A JavaScript utility library.
Lo-Dash
http://lodash.com/
A low level utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, and extra features.
D3
http://d3js.org/
A JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data using HTML, SVG and CSS.
JS Bin
http://jsbin.com/welcome/1/edit
JS Bin is a JavaScript, HTML and CSS playground.
JS Fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/
JavaScript and CSS testing interface.
Bit Bucket
https://bitbucket.org/
Like Github, but private and free, from the Jira people.
Font Awesome
http://fontawesome.github.io/Fo…
Font-based icons.
Chrometa
https://app.chrometa.com
Automatically track of your time, especially billable time.
Flux
http://justgetflux.com/
Automatically adjust your computer’s brightness and color palette based on time of day to ease eye strain.
One Tab
https://chrome.google.com/websto…
Collect Chome tabs into a drop down menu to simplify your interface and save memory.
Digital Ocean
https://www.digitalocean.com/
Scalable SSD cloud virtual servers.
Amazon Web Services
http://aws.amazon.com/
Scalable computing platform (hosting).