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Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 11

Jonathan Snook is an internationally-admired web designer and developer based in Ottawa. He has been involved in some innovative applications, including Snitter, My Mile Marker, and Overheard.it.

Jonathan is extremely well known for his excellent blog which shares his front-end work, hardcore server-side challenges, tips, tricks and bookmarks. He has also coauthored two acclaimed books: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries, and the approachable, widely-read The Art and Science of CSS.

I asked Jonathan to take part in the Dock Series to share the applications he relies upon as a designer and developer on a daily basis.

The Intro…

I’m a recent Mac convert. I’ve been a Windows user since Windows 1995 (and a DOS user primarily before that). In fact, the last Apple I had was a ][c. However, when the unibody MacBook Pros came out, it seemed like the perfect time to jump back into the land of Apple and I’m very glad I have. I now have the MBP, the iPhone, the Apple keyboard and Mighty Mouse, with an Apple Display on the way.

As a web developer, it has truly simplified my development by allowing all my work to happen on one machine, instead of the separate Windows, OSX and Ubuntu machines I had before.

The Dock…

Jonathan Snook Dock

Finder – I guess I’m stuck with it there. I usually use spotlight to find the app or file I’m looking for.
iTunes – What would work be without some music?
Firefox – My browser of choice and what I use for development.
Things – The only app that has lasted as a personal organizational tool. The simplicity and iPhone integration are the features I admire most.
Mail – I’ve tried running Gmail in a separate browser and in Fluid but a desktop app still works best for me. All my accounts stream into a single inbox.
Adium – To stay in touch with my peeps.
Contacts and Calendar – Self explanatory, I’m sure.
Textmate – My text editor of choice these days. The Projects+ and svn bundles are key additions.
Terminal – I’m always dropping into terminal for something, most especially to SSH into a remote server and make some configuration edits using vim.
Dreamweaver – I actually use it to do my article writing, whether it’s for my blog or another site. I used to use it a lot more when I did client work with content-heavy web sites but these days, it doesn’t get as much usage.
Safari and Opera – For cross-browser testing.
VMware – I use mostly for IE testing but also have some Windows-only tools that I run. I have snapshots set up for each browser and then just load the snapshot I want.
Tweetie – My current Twitter desktop app.
Preview – This often finds its way into my taskbar from opening some file or another.
Links – I set up a stack to access commonly used links.
Trash – Once again, stuck with it, even if I never use it from here.

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A huge thanks to Jonathan for taking time out to take part in the Dock Series.

As usual if you would like to share your dock, just leave a comment with a brief description of your dock apps and a link to a screenshot of it. Or take to your blog and write up a description of your dock as several others have done.

Other Creatives in the Series:

With more amazing creatives lined up, make sure to check back every Tuesday for the latest Dock Series installment.

Grace Smith is owner of the small but perfectly formed web design studio Postscript5, in Northern Ireland. To keep up to date with the latest designalicious content, then please consider subscribing.