What Are You Using?
We spend a lot of time following the thought leaders in web development, in many cases using the tools and libraries they’ve built, reading the posts they’ve written, articulating cool techniques they’ve learned, and in some cases, attending the defining conference for a specific language. But wouldn’t it be great to learn what they focus on and what they use to build such awesomeness?
I reached out to a group of some of the best and brightest developers in web development to answer those very questions. These are developers that have made strong contributions to the web development community, are highly regarded by their peers for their technical abilities, and continue to help push web development forward via content, code, and leadership. You can check out their bios, below, for more details about them.
These folks are incredibly busy, so I narrowed my questions down to four simple ones:
- What’s your primary development focus?
- What hardware are you using for development?
- Which editor or IDE do you use?
- What software can you not live without on a daily basis?
Below, you’ll find the answers they gave and hopefully discover some tools that could make your development much easier. You’ll definitely find common themes (Sublime) and a few nuggets that are new, at least to me.
Scott Gonzalez
Bio: I'm a full-stack web application developer, with a focus on JavaScript. I've been contributing to jQuery since 2007 and I’m currently the Project Lead for jQuery UI. I'm active in the Node.js, WHATWG, and W3C communities as well.
Q What’s your primary development focus?
Web development, mostly client-side JS and Node.js.