Author’s note

This post was recovered from my old blog via the Wayback Machine. It’s been fun going back through these posts, I can see how much I’ve grown in these 10-15 years. At the time I wrote this, I was leading a small team of developers at a web design agency. Reading this one made me miss working in Basecamp again, I should find a reason to use that product again. I’d also forgotten about Panic - what a company. Coda was a brilliant product when it came out, it was the first beautiful IDE and broke the ground for IDEs like Visual Studio Code.

@jbnunn

25-Sept 2022

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My workflow - Sept 24 2009

I’ve been working with a new workflow for the past month, and it’s really beefed up not only my production but also my efficiency. Here is what I currently use to get the job done:

1) Store all details (passwords, instructions, tasks, to-do’s, client requests, etc) in Basecamp. I can’t say enough good things about Basecamp. I know there are other tools I could use for this job, but I’m a sucker for a great design and interface.

2) Create a Slickmap based off the layout of the site. At the very least it gives me a broad overview of what the site will be doing.

3) Use Balsamiq Mockups to create rough wireframes based off the slickmap. I really can’t say enough good things about this product.

4) Use iStockPhoto for icons and graphics, create comps, and slice them up in Photoshop.

5) Put it all together with Panic Coda.

6) Use Blinksale for invoicing.

I’m probably missing a few things–a good bug tracker for sure. I’ve tried Mantis and 16bugs – Mantis gets the job done but is horribly ugly and counter-intuitive. 16bugs is pretty good – anyone have a better alternative? I’m also just now using Git for version control, even though I’m very tempted by Versions (which uses Subversion), I just don’t want to fork over another $60 right now. Anyone else have something they use that I might find useful?

- @jbnunn