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What Do Ninjas Use For Development?

Posted on October 7, 2008 by black ninja

We’re a team of developers that care about the tools that we use. People often ask us what our development environments look like. You asked, we answered:

When we’re ready to get paid, we use freshbooks.

We use Google Apps for business for email, information sharing and security.

Blogging is important to us, so we use wordpress.

We update often. Twitter helps us in that department.

Google Analytics helps us check up on how we’re doing.

Our business would never get out there without a domain.

To help us keep in touch with one another, we yammer what we’re currently working on.

We use telerik web controls for all our ASP.NET development to make our pages look pretty.

Git version control keeps our code safe.
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We’re so busy working on everyone else’s infrastructure, we don’t have time to manage our own, so Rackspace takes care of that for us.

Redgate makes it possible to tune our code so we produce the best performing pages possible.

For all our UI mockup and design, we absolutely love using Balsamiq Mockups For Desktop!

Pivotal Tracker helps us keep organized and manages our morning scrums!
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And last but not least, we’d be lost without our MacBook’s, iMac’s, iPhones and Apple TV!

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