So its been about two weeks since I moved my machine over to the Mac OS and I wrote a post about my issues with it, well I’ve been using it a bit more so its time to update you.I came to the realisation last week that I wasn’t giving the operating system a fair chance, I was carrying around 2 laptops and if I had any real work to do I did it on the phillips, I mostly watched video and posted online on the Macbook.
All that changed last week as I decided to format the phillips and force myself to use the macbook.. It was 2 days before I installed parallels (and I’m about to install VMWare)
The main thing I do on the laptop is write documents and develop PHP, I really am missing PSPad with its integrated FTP editor and tortoisesvn with its shell integration.
I’m still not into the whole “why press 2 keys when 4 is fine” to get a character and I’ve still no idea where the # key is but its still being used and I’m giving it a chance!
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Ah, the above comment shows you share the same font (sic) of knowledge as myself! Over the years I found shouting a Mac question upstairs usually solved the problem (bit disconcerting when the cursor was controlled remotely though ;o) Luckily I bumble on without need for many keystroke shortcuts ……
Happy continued Mac-ing, the Help menus are quite useful for basics too.
Check out Textmate (yes, it costs, but it’s worth it), CyberDuck (which integrates with Textmate amongst others), and Textmate also has SVN integration in there.
There are some truly awesome tools out there, you just need to dig around and find them.
I second the TextMate recommendation. It’s easily worth the money.
I also thoroughly recommend TextMate.
Ciarán Walsh’s excellent ProjectPlus plugin to makes the folder icons show their status within version control (just like TortoiseSVN in Windows Explorer).