So, I've only been with VHX for a week but I've already been immersed into a ton of new technologies that I've been meaning to check out for forever. No better way to learn than to just be thrown into the deep end, right? Here's some handy tools that I've encountered:

• Pow - I assume anyone working within the Rails environment already knows about Pow but it's been a huge help for localized development - removing the guesswork with starting the rails server and remembering exactly what localhost port it's running on. Beyond handy.
• TotalTerminal - I think this used to be called "Visor" but it's an incredibly convenient way to globally access your Terminal for pushing / pulling git updates. Much better than having a window floating around somewhere.
• SaSS - Yea, this has obviously been around for awhile but I was shocked that it actually does make writing CSS enjoyable, as opposed to somewhat of a chore from time to time. Loving it.