The tools – odd I’m the one writing this, I’m still inextricably linked to Textpad and Google when the stuff hits the fan. But I figured I’d give a rough lowdown on the building blocks the whole team uses here at Bezurk. Let’s see, Ruby on Rails (king for internal applications, soon to be enterprise as well!), Java, MyEclipse, MySQL, a variety of messaging queues (which are a troublesome lot and prone to replacement depending on which one is stable at any given time), there’s the aforementioned Ubuntu running in our office “reading room”, which is shortly going to become our standard server environment, some various flavors of Red Hat/Fedora – really old and not fun to find binaries for unless you like ‘em from 2003, ummm… Apache, JBoss, drips and drabs of PHP, Subversion (absolutely a requirement for source control), and then Photoshop, Dreamweaver and GIMP (my kingdom for a better interface, god love ‘em).

Anyway, that’s the short list. Hopefully in the next weeks and months we can give some more details on what works, what doesn’t, which way we’re going and random musings on whatever strikes us. Until then, back to Warcraft…err.. work.