I wasn't impressed by this list. There were no hidden gems. Most of this stuff is extremely basic for any Mac developer, there were also glaring holes in the list.<p>Examples about how to get things like Bazaar VCS installed from Macports would have been a lot more interesting for people I think.
> For those Mac users who think BBEdit is better than Textmate, it’s usually because BBEdit is a Cocoa application, and TextMate is a Unix application.<p>False. TextMate is a Cocoa app and BBEdit is Carbon.
::sarcasm:: This blog is a goldmine of lists--just what we love on HN!<p><pre><code> 23 Essential Tools For Web Development on a Mac
15 Quick Ways to Shrink Page Load Times
12 Ways to Design For the Fickle Web User</code></pre>
A list for those just who haven't found Eclipse and it's plugins: SQL Explorer, Subclipse, PHPEclipse,CFEclipse, EPIC. and Firefox and it's plugins: Web developer, Firebug, FireFTP I'm sure there are many more that I have forgotten.
cocoamysql and phpmyadmin can easily be replaced by navicat or navicat lite (free), which is available for linux, osx, and windows. ive found it pretty handy.