Stop Looking For The ‘Perfect’ Tools

I'm not sure you can compare a pen with a programming language or framework. Changing pen has a very low opportunity cost.

I think most of us here love trying new things and if it helps us enjoy what we do even more then I think that's a great thing! I like the first comment: "For the rest of us: http://thetoolbox.cc/

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Ha! I was just thinking this today.

This strikes me as short and repetitive and nearly meaningless if you don't know what lizard brain is. And, "Start. And Just Do."?

I'm with SwearWord, I've tired of these commanding holier-than-thou recommendations. I've spent a lot of time sampling tools. I was literally just today remarking at how my choices of: OS, Text Editor, server OS, language and database has made it incredibly easy for me to develop, run tests, deploy to test and production machines, and do it from a powerful, comfortable and reproduceable environment. Consistently.

These things and low barrier of entry for others to hop into development and deployment because of those choices was well worth it.

If I had "Started. And Just Done.", I'd have wound up with some PHP or PHP framework derivative, or something akin to what I see elsewhere with hacked config scripts and an environment that takes hours of guessing to re-establish.

Besides, what's with the implication that this search is all encompassing or a barrier to doing real work? I have what I use now, and I still resample other tools every once in a while. And I still get a lot done, and every once in a while I get a better tool.

Stop telling me what to do HN!