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I develop on my Mac, When I start working, I have to open a number of programs to get ready. I use Spaces to organize my work areas, my screen doesn't get cluttered that way. I set up 4 screens for work, references (pdfs), IDE, Support stuff (mail, gitx, adium), iTunes.

Starting and organizing my work area when I start used to take a few minutes, and seemed like busywork.

I set up osx to start the programs in their proper space when I issue the command 'gotowork' from the terminal.

Here's how:

1. open /Applications/Spaces
2. open your /Application folder in finder
3. drag your programs you use to the appropriate space in the spaces pref pane.
4. Add an alias to your /etc/bashrc file.

I added this alias to the /etc/bashrc file:

alias gotowork='cd /Applications; open "Mail.app"; open "GitX.app";open "Firefox.app"; open "Adium.app"; open "iTunes.app";open "/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.9.app"; sudo /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysqld_safe &'

It starts:

• Mail
• GitX (version control, I set it to open the last repo worked with)
• Firefox
• Adium
• iTunes
• NetBeans
• MySQL

I also found a way to launch alot of apps using automator http://mysteriousflame.com/automator-qs/

I was had some issues with starting netbeans this way, JAVA_HOME needed to be commented out of my bashrc file, I know this will mess up other stuff, like my amazon ec2 connections, but I'm not using those right now.