Web Browser Brand Roles Primer Tutorial
With a job, the day to day organization can be important, and is likely to be crucial to achieving goals.
We spend a lot of time around web browser applications, being into I.T. and creating web applications, in particular.
We’ve organized macOS MacBook Air usage mainly, around one major disk folder and four brands of web browser, the folder being, for us is …
/Applications/MAMP/htdocs
Huh?! Well, being into PHP as our “all things server” programming language, and having installed (many versions) of MAMP, as our Apache/PHP/MySql local web server brand of choice, and by default /Applications/MAMP/htdocs is MAMP’s Document Root (and defaulting to port 8888) corresponding to URL …
http://localhost:8888
Even with compiling language work, we’ll often use subfolders off /Applications/MAMP/htdocs … working to a KISS principle!
Turning to web browsers, the four we tabulate below are all very good products, and can all work well for you, especially on macOS, but a consideration to do with how you organize work, there is the consideration of what work life will be like if you have to, say, clear all web browser cookies and data, for instance. As such, in the list below, we’ve organized Google Chrome and/or Firefox as the two web browsers we can tolerate that with (but prefer to just clear Last Hour or Last 15 Minutes or Last 24 Hours usually), in our (web browser) Organization Table below …
| Opera |
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| Safari |
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| Firefox |
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| Google Chrome |
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When there are jobs requiring command line needing to be seen next to a web browser rendition, macOS Terminal application windows can easily be arranged to not overlap any web browser brand window from the list above.
Screenshots on macOS have moved on from good ol’ Grab with the very easy keyboard shortcut …
control-command-shift-3
… working really well with good ol’ macOS version of PaintBrush‘s File->New from Clipboard functionality. Preview is good for PDF creation and compilation functionality. Gimp is good for blurring and other filtering requirements.
More and more we’ll use AirDrop to transfer from iPad or iPhone to the macOS MacBook Air, or use that iOS device’s Mail sharing option to download to the macOS MacBook Air Downloads folder usually, and then, usually, this will be copied to good ol’ /Applications/MAMP/htdocs (or a subfolder off this, especially if what is copied is a *.zip file (extracted)).
Crontab on the macOS MacBook Air has an “every minute” check of good ol’ /Applications/MAMP/htdocs changed (within last minute) *.png (primarily coming out of Paintbrush File->Save As… functionality) or *.[Hh][Ee][Ii][Cc] (off iPhone or iPad Camera app usage) ready for (PHP calling of) ImageMagick‘s convertion to versions of *.[Jj][Pp]*[Gg] images.
Uploads to (and downloads from) the RJM Programming domain are all conducted via sftp connections using the FileZilla macOS desktop application.
TextWrangler is our favourite text editor by a very large margin!
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