It would have been more helpful if you said what kind of development you were trying to do. I'll assume you are talking about web development... Others have men

It would have been more helpful if you said what kind of development you were trying to do. I'll assume you are talking about web development... Others have mentioned good editors and the such. For FTP I would say Forklift over Transmit, but most of those tools are just preference. Find one that you like. However, the ABSOLUTE BEST DEVELOPMENT TOOL for OS X has to be Sequel Pro [1]. I have not found a single other program like it on any operating system. I'm serious, I use a Mac at work solely for Sequel Pro, and my Linux box for everything else. If you are doing a lot of MySQL administration it is an invaluable tool. It gives you an extremely powerful GUI along with direct console access. Better yet its free! [1]: http://www.sequelpro.com/ http://www.sequelpro.com/ On a side note, if anybody knows of anything even close to as good as Sequel Pro for Linux, I will literally send you 1 Bitcoin right now. EDIT: Don't say Workbench or Emma, because I've used them and they don't come close.