I think I’ve found a setup that’s both fun, and maximizes my own productivity. I’ve almost duplicated this setup on Ubuntu as well.

The left side is Sublime Text Editor 2 (and yes, I still have to buy it. It’s totally worth the money.) On the right, I usually have tests running in the top right corner, but I’m just doing static web page design for my resume, so it’s just showing the log output from the server (and reminding me that I should remove my favicon tag). The bottom right has my custom terminal theme, which gives me my git branch and status, my current ruby version from RVM, my folder location, and the username and machine that I’m logged into on the far right side. This has become a lot more useful when duplicating my shell across all of my development/remote machines.

This screen is on the monitor beside me if I have an extra one (and I really need to get a permanent 2nd screen now), and if I don’t have an extra one, it’s one “space” over on Mac OS X. I prefer to do all of my development on the latest stable version of Chrome. I also test on firefox and opera on the Mac, and Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 6-10 on my windows machine.

My terminal setup is a mix of Hashrocket’s “Dotmatrix”, Robby Russell’s “Oh My Zsh”, and some custom theming on my own. You can grab it here.