It is back and better than ever (or the same right now): my current development setup! This will get updated periodically as my setup changes and evolves, so keep checking back often.

Development Machine

I carry a 13″ MacBook Pro (Early 2011) with an Intel Core i7 at 2.7Ghz processor, 8 GB of RAM, a 500 GB hard drive and loaded with OS X Lion to round it all out. Fantastic little machine. I hook it up to a 23” Dell ST2310 monitor, Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad and Apple Magic Mouse at home and a 24″ Viewsonic VA2431wm monitor, same keyboard and Apple Magic Trackpad at work (right now the laptop is at home while I test the machine below). I’m still looking for a decent SSD to drop into the machine and a better solution for Time Machine backups.

Fantastic little development machine.

Tablet Device

I used a first-generation 16 GB iPad for a while as my main mobile device, but my wife took control of it and now it stays at home as the living-area computer. I spend a lot of time in Instapaper and Twitterific for iPad (and iPhone and Mac as well).

Cellular Phone

The one device I always have with me is my 16 GB iPhone 4S. It is my ever-present traveling companion and keeps me constantly connected with the people and information I need to keep on top of. It also serves as my music device and camera when I need one. Simply a fantastic device.

Editor of Choice (1st Place)

Still TextMate. I’ve tried to get into the whole Vim vibe going around the Ruby community at the moment, but I am just wired to continue to use TextMate. Even after all of this time, simply the best.

As an update, TextMate 2.0 Alpha has been released and is under active development. I’m using it as my main editor on both of my machines from this point forward.

Editor of Choice (2nd Place)

I have to add Vim here. Vim is everywhere and used by every sysadmin that I have ever met (that might be an overstatement, but stick with me). It is small, fast and infinitely customizable to the point of pain. I’m going to learn Vim, just watch me!

Editor of Choice (3rd Place)

Of course, I have to give a shout out to Xcode as well. I’m getting into it more and more and I hope to dive in, waist deep, in the future. It is something different for me as I’m more accustomed to simple text editors and not full-blown IDEs.