I have a machine running a couple of vagrant VM. The problem I have is that sometimes I forget to shutdown those VM before I shutdown or reboot my machine.

Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system. With a single command, you can have IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, IE11 and MSEdge running in separate virtual machines.

Paw is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native OS X interface to compose requests, inspect server responses and generate client code out-of-the-box.

certainlyakey starred niceandserious/crafty-vagrant

Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.

eyeglass is a node-sass (github) extension manager built on top of npm. Using eyeglass, you can bring the power of node modules to your Sass files. [Allows to do a global import sass files in a folder]

EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily readable and they work nicely with version control systems.

Ideally, we should all be developing our code in our own little space on our own little local server. This allows us to easily make changes without messing up production code or stepping over other's work. This is usually cost prohibitive so we're "forced" to use virtual machines to make this a reality.

The problem we face is that each developer needs to have a virtual machine that is setup exactly (or nearly exactly) like our production server. This requires a long list of configuration changes that need to be made on every machine. For example, install the apache package, update this configuration file, setup MySQL so you can access the databases remotely. Then we run into more problems when additional changes are needed because the developer has to take time out of their schedule to make them on each machine. There are also passwords that have to be remembered and /etc/host changes that need to be made. You'll be in even worse shape if the deployment consists of multiple VMs.

A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for Web development.

Ansible allows to control what's gonna be installed inside the VM (webserver, database, PHP, Drupal etc.).

Drupal VM is A VM for local Drupal development, built with Vagrant + Ansible.
This project aims to make spinning up a simple local Drupal test/development environment incredibly quick and easy, and to introduce new developers to the wonderful world of Drupal development on local virtual machines (instead of crufty old MAMP/WAMP-based development).