I got a new (2015 Model) MacBookPro laptop at work. The thing flies compared to my old work laptop. I love having an Solid State Drive! Getting it setup for development was a snap since I’m pretty much doing IOS development these days. Some awesome dev tools I recommend:

• SwiftLint – Great tool to help enforce code formatting standards.
• Charles Web Proxy – Great tool for mocking and manipulating service responses in development.
• GitKraken – My fav Git GUI client. Great tools to streamline workflow and visualize merges.
• Meld – My fav visual diff tool.
• MAMP – Great simple tool to spin up LAMP stacks on your  local. (XAMP is good to )

And of course XCODE is pretty much the only IDE for Swift. The API documentation integration is a life saver. I’m so lucky to have a MAc as my dev machine at work!

My work challenge for  today is throwing together a nice 4 column fixed width layout using  just css. I’ve found a pretty spiffy wiki article with a  nice collection of  CSS layout examples. CSS Layouts learning toward s using the  float  methodology. Plenty of 3 column layouts. But multi columns can get tricky. If I come up with anything brilliant I will happily post it!