This is a short list, but it will take a few days to get through the entire thing, assuming nothing goes wrong (something will go wrong)
Other required tools: Slack, dropbox, outlook, https://is.oregonstate.edu/microsoft, jamf?
Download browsers
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Firefox Dev
- any others you think you'll want for testing (Opera, etc)
Start with a bit of house cleaning
House cleaning link. (There are a lot of good general development settings and tools in this guide, though it won't show you how to set up a drupal environment, but bookmark it for reference.)
- Start with System Preferences section
- Homebrew section.
- iTerm section and just the zsh section
- Vim section (may as well)
- VSCode section, but only grab the javascript, sql, and vs code icons extensions. (we'll get plenty of others later)
- Show hidden files https://techstacker.com/how-to-always-show-hidden-files-finder-macos/ (careful with this one. you might not want to do it on your personal computer)
Side note – Dracula is a nice cohesive set of themes for your environments, but there's lots of others. https://draculatheme.com/ I use vscode with the niteowl theme.
Get git
Configure git and install it, if you haven't already installed it. (what is git and how do I use it)
- brew install git
- global git ignore (Git documentation. The section you want is about half way down.)
- global name/email (the errors should walk you through this)
Add Keys to Github
Install vpn
https://is.oregonstate.edu/vpn
Add K8s and K9s
/wiki/spaces/LTD/pages/54875904 (this is just for your local environment, written by Ryan and Christa)
Docker
Non-docker projects
https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-monterey-apache-multiple-php-versions
for each version of php, you'll have a php.ini file. set the
memory_limit = 256M or 512M
You may also need to raise the file size upload.
upload_max_filesize = 10Mpost_max_size = 10M
Make sure to add the 'sites' folder to your finder sidebar