My Development Tools

Operating System & Local Dev

Code editor: Sublime Text 3 » Atom » PhpStorm
Command-line interface (CLI)
The browser inspector (Mozilla 3D View)
CSS preprocessors: Sass (or Less)
CSS preprocessor helper library: Compass
CSS code style helper: CSSComb
(I wrote something about it)
Drupal to Backdrop patch merge: git mergetool –tool=meld (a diff viewer)
Database inspection: phpMyAdmin
Online regular expression editor: Rubular
What vars, arrays or objects and values we got during code execution? Devel e.g. dpm(get_defined_vars());
Where to ~~hack~~ override that HTML output?: Devel Themer
Drupal for Firebug (on Chrome)

Without the obvious. Applications that extend CLI commands are needed (Git, Drush, etc.).

Reverse an applied patch: git apply -R path/file.patch
Jump straight to a directory: j scss
Turn a makefile into a working Drupal codebase:
drush make build-example.make ~/www/yoursite
Drupal coding standard compliance helper: drush dcs
Patch helper: drush iq-diff > example.patch
Show differences between patches: interdiff old.patch new.patch > interdiff.txt
Create release notes: drush rn 7.x-1.0 7.x-1.1
What permissions are active in the project?: drush perl
Make moved projects being recognized: drush rr
Recipe for rebuilding your project: drush sql-sync
Document patches in a project: drush patch-status
Create a CREDITS.txt table:
git fame (I wrote something about it)

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