Nearing the end of my second week on the job at Terracotta. I’m going to try to document here the software that I use, much of which I had to install. Hopefully this will streamline things for the next newbie. If you’re like me and are making the transition from a PC, you may find my handy-dandy Mac transition guide useful.

Terracotta

• Terracotta.org is where the main software can be downloaded, including source code. Terracotta has been open source since December of ‘06.
• The Terracotta Forge is, among other things, a Maven repository of Terracotta-related projects such as Terracotta Integration Modules (TIMs)

General

• Firefox (download)
• Eclipse Java IDE
• Adium for IM (supports Yahoo, GTalk, etc)
• Skype for video chat
• Eyebeam soft phone (this is the non-free version of the free X-Lite soft phone, apparently with Leopard we must use this. You’ll need to get a download URL and license from the Terracotta help desk.)
• TextWrangler text editor
• TextMate not free but great text editor
• NetNewsWire feed reader
• Growl (download) system alerts, integrates with Adium, NetNewsWire, Elluminate and other Mac software
• NeoOffice (download) free OpenOffice for Mac (was preinstalled on my MacBook)
• iWork office suite, not free
• iStat menu bar meters for cpu, etc.
• Terminal (preinstalled) which as of Leopard is now tabbed
• Quicksilver
• OmniGraffle – graphics editor du jour
• Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client (preinstalled)

Java

• Jad (download) is a Java byte code decompiler

Eclipse Plugins (all of these were installed via Eclipse’s Update Manager)

• Terracotta Plugin (URL for update manager) – eases integrating Terracotta into a project
• ASM (URL) – you’ll want to install the ASM Framework and Bytecode Outline
• Groovy (URL) – syntax highlighting and whatnot
• Subclipse (URL) – Subversion support
• Maven (URL) – needed to resolve Eclipse inter-project dependencies using Maven pom.xml’s rather than Eclipse .classpath or .plugin files. (Not to be confused with Maven Eclipse plugin, a Maven plugin for generating Eclipse project files.)
• FindBugs (URL)
• QuickREx (URL) – regex
• Implementors (URL) – quickly navigate between interfaces and implementations, or super and sub classes

Firefox Plugins

• DZone plugin (download)