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The tools I use.
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Tools we use for PM for project management and communication

  • LaTeX for company proposals, converted via custom script to google docs
  • git for code and structured docs
  • dropbox for screenshots and file sharing
  • markdown (in github) and textile (in redmine)
  • markdown for blog posts and presentations
  • Vim for code and text editing

Communication:

  • slack, google hangouts, skype for communication
  • Gmail
  • Antidote, Google Translate

Project management:

  • Basecamp (client communications, email tracking)
  • Google docs + google spreadsheets + google calendar
  • gist.github.com for easily sharing code or document snippets

Technical infrastructure:

  • github + gitlab for repositories management
  • Pingdom for monitoring
  • BrowserStack and Litmus for browser testing
  • CircleCI for continuous integration
  • Cloudflare for DNS, SSL, and CDN
  • Digital Ocean + docker for quick VMs
  • Proxmox / docker on OVH for our company's hosting infrastructure
  • Pfsense as router distro
  • Asterisk + voip.ms for voip, PhoneTag for voicemail transcription

Biz:

  • EventBrite for training
  • Boomerang
  • LinkedIn Pro
  • Mailchimp
  • Print100 global and Staples.ca for printing
  • godaddy.com for domains
  • Google Analytics
  • Twitter
  • Facebook groups

Web:

  • Drupal for our corporate site
  • Jekyll for mini-sites like babelfrog.com
  • Chrome Extensions: uBlock, OneTab (for archiving my 150 open tabs), LastPass

Custom stuff:

  • BabelFrog - Chrome extension for running selected translation via Google Translate
  • Puppy Paste - tool to paste formatted content (eg HTML) and convert to markdown
  • drupalsun - nice UI on Drupal Planet RSS feeds
  • dropbox-screenshots: seamless embeddable screenshots uploading to Dropbox
  • dozen redmine plugins, including redmine-git-remote
  • sitediff for QA of migrations and updates
  • screengif for making animated GIFs from quicktime screen captures
  • restructuredText to LaTeX for training handbooks
  • pdf-straighten
  • md2prez.sh
  • BOOKMARKLETS galore

OSX utilities:

  • clipmenu, alfred, caffeine, disksweeper, karabiner
  • homebrew

Command line:

  • make for documenting project-specific bash snippets
  • homebrew for OSX package management
  • pandoc for converting between markdown and textile
  • vagrant (with VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion)
  • ngrok, socat

Visual

  • Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Photo Mechanic
  • Omnigraffle
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