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by billturner 6006 days ago
Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.
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The same, but with emacs and magit standing in for Textmate and Gitx.

The only reason to depart from these tools is if you need a PHP debugger -- Ruby has a perfectly fine command-line debugger, but PHP's debuggers are an incredible pain in the ass by comparison. Most of the pro PHP coders I know use Komodo or NuSphere PHPed for debugging (although only a percentage of them use such IDEs for actual coding). I despise IDEs and use debuggers too rarely to feel like spending the money on those tools; on the rare occasions that I need a PHP debugger I use XDebug with MacGDBp and pray that it doesn't crash. It seems to be working better, based on the last time I tried it, sometime last month.

All of that, but replace Terminal.app with iTerm.app -- it's 2010 and Apple still hasn't released a terminal emulator that supports 256 colors.
+1. And I use VIM too.
+another1 CSSEdit which is great.