Here’s an update to my Essential Tool list that I published last year. I highlighted all of the additions and changes in red.
I’m in JP‘s Nothin’ But NET course this week, so I’m guessing that I’ll have many new ones to add shortly. However, I’ll probably also be so worn out from the class that I won’t be able to publish it for a while. The prep work alone almost did me in…:-)
As always, any new suggestions are welcome.
Development
- Day Job Programming Language & RDBMS: C# & SQL Server 2005
- Current Night Time Programming Environment: Ruby on Rails & MySQL
- Unit Testing Framework: MbUnit
- Mock Framework: Rhino.Mocks
- Unit Test Runner: TestDriven.NET
- Automated Web Testing: WatiN
- Web Framework: ASP.NET MVC
- ORM: NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate (mapping), and LINQ to NHibernate (querying)
- IoC Container: Castle’s Windsor
- Refactoring Tool: ReSharper
- Visual Studio Plugin: GhostDoc
- Powershell Editor: PowerGUI
- Light-Weight Editor: Notepad2, SCiTE
- Light-Weight Query Analyzer: Query Express
- Regex: Espresso
Code Analysis
Development Lifecycle
- Source Control: VisualSVN Server & TortoiseSVN
- Source Control Search: Fisheye
- Build: Nant, Visual Build
- Continuous Integration: Team City
- Issue Tracking: JIRA
- Document Management: Confluence
- Visual Mockups: Balsamiq
Debugging
- Dissasembly: Reflector
- Javascript: Firebug
- Web Performance: YSlow
- Locked Files: Unlocker
- HTTP Request: Firebug
- Registry and File Access: ProcessMonitor
- Open Ports: CPorts
- Slow Windows Start-Up Time: AutoRuns
- Assembly Binding: Fusion Log Viewer
Utility
- Application Launcher: Launchy
- Custom Hotkeys: AutoHotkey
- Compression: 7Zip
- PDF: Foxit Reader
- FTP: FileZilla
- Desktop Search: Everything
- Password Management: KeePass
- Terminal Sessions: RoyalTS
- Merge & Diff: Beyond Compare
- Screen Capture: Snag-It
- Disk Space Analysis: WinDirStat
- Monitor Management: UltraMon
- Password Recovery: SIW
- Mounting ISO Images: Virtual Clone Drive
- Bulk File Copy: RoboCopy
MISC
- Command Shell: PowerShell
- Graphics: Paint.NET
- Virtualization: Virtual PC
- Browser: Firefox
- Favorite FireFox Plugin: Gestures
- Blogging Client: LiveWriter
- Blogging Engine: WordPress
- Notes: OneNote
Essential WebSites
- RSS Reader: Google Reader
- Task Management: RememberTheMilk
- Bookmarking: Del.ic.ious
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