The Hardware

8GB RAM

i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz × 4

170GB SSD harddrive

9 cell battery

external display? check!

The Usage Scenario

map design

ETL (extract, transform, load) tasks

geodata acquisition

geostatistical analysis

webmap production

coding

GUI design

general design

hosting

database work

The Application List

QGIS– for my major GIS work. Supports nearly anything with its Python backend

PostgreSQL with postGIS extension – data mart for my daily tasks and webmapping projects

RStudio – a GUI for the statistical, functional language R with syntax highlighting, package support, embedded pictures and visual log to do analysis on my spatial data

with syntax highlighting, package support, embedded pictures and visual log to do analysis on my spatial data Filezilla – a FTP client to connect with ftp data providers and to the digital-geography.com servers

Inkscape – an editor for vector graphics. Useful in final level map production as well as marker/pin designs

Gimp – always good for image enhancement and maybe broader image related work

Libre Office – a good office package. For simple forms/graphics I use Libre Office Impress a lot!

Knime – for automated tasks when it comes to geocoding addresses from a file or reprojecting coordinates in a xls file

Sublime3 – I love a good editor which supports any coding style

Virtualbox – to host my Windows installations and my portable servers

Tilemill – to create my own tiles for stunning webmaps

QT designer – to create GUIs for QGIS plugins

GIT – our favourite collaboration tool at Geolicious

Sublime3 – once again: a great editor!!!

Deepin Terminal – an enhanced terminal for Ubuntu

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Once again I switched from Windows back to Ubuntu as I only needed Win for my granted ESRI license but hated to be “interrupted” by automatic updates, missing dll libraries and crashing flash container plugins on Firefox. So now I am building my personal computational slave once again based on Ubuntu and wanted to share with you my list of applications that I need for my daily work with geodata, matrices, graphics, cartographic outputs and statistical analysis.I am running on a 3 year old Thinkpad X230 I am using it mostly in a non-desktop way: in the train, on the airport/airplane, shared desks and so on.I am mostly working with geodata:My second major work is related to programming:Looking at this short list you might get an idea about my software stack. So let’s check your thoughts:So this was probably more GIS/every day applications. As we are working on qgis2leaf and some other software I also need something for development:So now it’s your turn! What is useful for your daily work? What did I miss?