New Mac essentials

First

• Xcode via App Store
• Dropbox
• pwSafe

Configure

• generate SSH key, save off passphrase in pwSafe, and configure in github
• git config --global (user.name, user.email, core.excludefile)

Download

• brew
• oh my zsh and update .zshrc for: download theme wedisagree_nadig symlink common files to profile ln -s ~/Dropbox/Development/profile/zshrc .zshrc and any others.
• Google Chrome - sign in to bring over bookmarks, apps (ghostery, clear cache, batarang, js errors notifier).
• Alfred zip and change shortcut to cmd + space after changing Spotlight’s to something else (F5) FAQ

Development

Disable TextEdit’s smartquotes.

Rails

• redis brew install redis
• MySQL & MySQLWorkBench download dmgs from mysql.com. cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/MySQL/Workbench/connections.xml ~/Dropbox/Development/ to save connections for MySQLWB.
• Jetbrains stable: RubyMine, WebStorm I like to periodically export my settings from each of these to my ~/Dropbox/Development folder.
• RVM & bundler gem install bundler.

Mobile

• More Jetbrains goodness: IntelliJ
• Android SDK

Both

• Node brew install node

Non-essential

• JoinMe
• Skype
• TweetDeck, Dash (Docs) from App Store.