Tools
Laravel
PHP frameworks have been around for a long time. Laravel is a game changer and not only provides a great framework, but so many other tools that make development much easier.
Read More...Slack
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.
Read More...VVV
Need a quick and easy WordPress development environment? VVV’s got you covered. You can be developin’ in minutes.
Read More...Vagrant
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.
Read More...VirtualBox
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.
Read More...Shutter
Programmers frequently need an easy way to do various screen shots. Shutter is an easy way to do various screen shots on Linux.
Read More...Git
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.
Read More...Beaver Builder
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.
Read More...MySQL
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.
Read More...WordPress
More than 25% of all web sites are powered through WordPress, which is written in PHP. That includes this site.
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