### First things first...

* Swap Control and Caps Lock in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys
* Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome/
* iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/
* Oh my zsh https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/
* XCode (from the mac app store)
* XCode command line tools (run XCode, go to Preferences -> Downloads -> Command Line Tools)
* Homebrew https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation

### Fire up your database

* Edit /etc/paths to put /usr/local/bin on top, so that lion's psql doesnt win

Install postgres and init the db
```
brew install postgres
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
```

Add aliases to your shell for spinning postgres up/down (and while we're at it, put brew's python packages on the path so we can run mapnik later and tell zsh not to autocorrect a couple things)
```
alias postgresup='pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start'
alias postgresdown='pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -s -m fast'
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH
alias mvim='nocorrect mvim'
alias rbenv='nocorrect rbenv'
```

Okay, now install the GIS fun after postgres is happy
```
brew install gdal --with-postgres
brew install postgis
```
(creating geo databases got easier, no need to install the templates, see http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-2.0/postgis_installation.html#create_new_db_extensions)

### Higher-level GIS tools

Tap the homebrew/science repo and build QGIS
```
brew install libspatialite
brew tap homebrew/science
brew install qgis --with-grass --with-postgis
```
Follow the instructions to make it a pretty bundle...

Build mapnik
```
brew install mapnik
```

### And of course, you must have virtualenv
Get pip, if you haven't already, then vitrualenv. And then virtualenvwrapper (http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/) cuz its awesome. (Adding the setup to the end of my .zshrc, use .bash_profile or whatever if you like.)
```
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
echo 'source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh' >> ~/.zshrc
```

### Doing ruby?

Get rbenv (https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv).

Note, I'm modifying my .zshrc cuz I do zsh. You'd do your .bash_profile if you're normal.
```
brew install rbenv
brew install ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc
```
You'll want to open a new shell to get that stuff we just put on your path. Here's how you see what fancy new ruby versions you can install, and how to get one w/ rbenv:
```
rbenv install
rbenv install 1.9.3-p194
```

### Other tools I love
* TileMill http://mapbox.com/tilemill/
* macvim (Trying vim. We'll see how this goes.) http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
* iStat Menus http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
* The Unarchiver http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver
* CrashPlan http://www.crashplan.com/
* Divvy http://mizage.com/
* BusySync http://www.busymac.com/busysync/ (Not necessary for dev, but necessary for keeping Google Calendar and Exchange in sync.)
* Skype (direct download link) http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/macosx/post-download/