Creating an efficient development environment for Ubuntu 14.04

Software that should be installed from software center

Terminator
Better terminal app.

Gnome-do
Gnome-do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web and perform useful actions on those items. Equivalent to osx spot light. ( doesn’t have that much functionality though)

Guak terminal
Guake is a drop-down terminal for Ubuntu desktop environment. Like similar terminals. it is invoked with a single keystroke, and hidden by pressing the same keystroke again.

Shutter
Shutter for screen capture

Software that are not on Software center

Ubuntu Tweak
Can be used to tweak ubuntu . Add workspaces. Change login screen. Screen corner choices.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Java

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

Chrome

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Sublime 3

A better text editor

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y sublime-text-installer