Chris Mospaw

Slack

February 5, 2018 |

Slack goes way beyond being a “chat” client. It’s a full-on communications platform that is infinitely extendable. Paying for Slack is possible, but the free version is quite useful as well.

VVV

February 5, 2018 |

Need a quick and easy WordPress development environment? VVV’s got you covered. You can be developin’ in minutes.

Vagrant

February 5, 2018 |

Virtual machines can be a lot of work and tricky to set up. Vagrant takes out the guess work and gives you a consistent VM any time, anywhere.

VirtualBox

February 5, 2018 |

Sometimes you need another computer (or six) within your computer. VirtualBox is my go-to virtual machine manager. It’s free and easy to set up, with support for pretty much any operating system as a guest.

Shutter

February 5, 2018 |

Programmers frequently need an easy way to do various screen shots. Shutter is an easy way to do various screen shots on Linux.

Git

February 5, 2018 |

If you deal with files, especially code, you need a way to track those files when they’re created, changed, and even removed. Git does it better than any VCS out there.

Beaver Builder

February 4, 2018 |

If WordPress makes it a breeze to create the web site you want, Beaver Builder turns it into a Hurricane: more powerful and much faster.

MySQL

February 4, 2018 |

MySQL is the database that makes so many web sites possible. PHP might power the web, but MySQL is usually right behind there providing the data necessary for today’s web sites.

WordPress

February 4, 2018 |

More than 25% of all web sites are powered through WordPress, which is written in PHP. That includes this site.

PHP

February 4, 2018 |

PHP: It started as some C programs for a personal home page more than 20 years ago, and the Internet wouldn’t be the same without it.

Over the years, PHP’s demise has been predicted, but it’s really stronger than ever.