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**Evil Phil** · 18-09-2009, 11:19

Found something useful, then let us know.

**Evil Phil** · 18-09-2009, 11:36

Here's some of my toolkit

Edit Plus
http://www.typetester.com/ - font sizing utility
Winrar
Eclipse (I've recently returned to Java development)
Visual Studio

Some good online resources

nuttz · 18-09-2009, 11:38

jarFinder
solve classpath problems quickly
http://www.jarfinder.com/

**Sparks** · 18-09-2009, 15:39

Vim and particularly gVim with a half-dozen addons. That's my primary work environment, right there.
Gcc is my main compiler for C programming.
Make is, well, make
Artistic Style is a nice filter to run code through to ensure consistent formatting. It's a small thing, but small things count. And it can be fired from vim as well.
Boxes, also fired from vim, is handy for formatting some comments and other stuff.
Trac is my current ticket-tracking software. I've also tried (and bugfixed) Mantis and Bugzilla, but Trac is just more user-friendly, especially on smaller projects.
Mercurial for version control.
PgAdmin3 for working with Postgresql
MySQL Query Browser for most of my MySQL work (though MySQL Admin gets used a fair bit too)
PEAR and PECL for PHP libraries
XDebug for LAMP-stack debug work and DDD for debugging C/C++

**satchmo** · 19-09-2009, 02:20

Some resources more oriented towards graphics & game developers....

Real-Time Rendering - one of the best books out there, and a great resource for up-to-date rendering-related links. Their blog is regularly updated with good stuff too.
GameDevelopers.ie - a community for Irish game developers in Ireland and around the world.
A good graphing applet that I often use for plotting various functions.
nVidia's developer zone - full of good stuff, including full online copies of GPU Gems 1, 2 and 3. Their Photoshop DDS plugin is especially useful.
AMD developer central - similarly good resources, but for AMD chips and ATI GPUs. Home of handy tools like RenderMonkey and GPU MeshMapper.
Gamasutra - home of Game Developer magazine and various good online articles. The post mortems are always a good read.
GameDev.net - probably the biggest indie game developer community site... the forums are a good resource for finding answers to problems you're having (someone else has probably had the same problem)
DevMaster.net - Similar to GDnet but smaller.
Valve, Insomniac and Crytek all have great pages collecting various presentations and publications given at conferences about their work. Insomniac's is especially good, going above and beyond the usual GDC presentations.
And finally xkcd, just because it's awesome.

**Sparks** · 19-09-2009, 02:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by satchmo

And finally xkcd, just because it's awesome.

Amen to that. I keep about forty-odd webcomics in my bookmarks, because some days, they're all that stand between me, a project manager, and a murder conviction...

Oh, and add in VirtualBox because it's so bloody useful - testing in IE6 from Linux, running sandboxed LAMP servers, the works. Virtualisation (be it VirtualBox, VMware or whatever) is an immensely useful tool.

NeverSayDie · 19-09-2009, 21:59

I've been using the Regex Coach for years as quick little tool to debug/design regex's, very handy;
http://weitz.de/regex-coach/

Post from Scott Hanselman a few months back, listing a bunch of utilities and developer tools he uses, some good stuff in there;
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottH...orWindows.aspx

On a .NET specific note, if you're P/Invoking back to the Win32 and other APIs, this site is very useful for getting calling profiles;
http://pinvoke.net/

Also re MS tech, they have a very handy Web Platform Installer, for getting set up with a Windows development environment in a hurry - Visual Studio, IIS, SQL, ASP.NET or PHP, etc. Also lets you grab various open source apps - wikis, blogs, forums, etc.
http://www.microsoft.com/web/Downloads/platform.aspx

If you want to get started/get further with ASP.NET development, lots of video tutorials and other resources here;
http://www.asp.net/

The MSDN Magazine tends to have some pretty interesting stuff, plus some in-depth material;
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx

Back when I worked with Perl, I used to use a text editor called Context, was simple but good. It's still going, AFAIK;
http://www.contexteditor.org/

These days as a lightweight/backup text editor I've been using Notepad++, pretty nice app. Does code folding, search across files, syntax highlighting and various other handy tricks.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

fasty · 20-09-2009, 23:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by satchmo

Some resources more oriented towards graphics & game developers....

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Real Time Collision Detection - Great book and the author has a pretty amusing blog. His rants about design patterns and C++ are amusing to say the least.

Lockless Programming Considerations for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows

fasty · 20-09-2009, 23:35

LINQPad - Great for testing LINQ like you would SQL.

.Net Reflector - Browse the code in .Net assemblies. Very useful little tool.

Genghiz Cohen · 21-09-2009, 11:39

3rd level student?
Want professional tools?
DreamSpark
Thank you Microsoft.

weiss · 21-09-2009, 15:07

Mingw GNU toolchain for windows - C/C++
JWASM x86 PE/ELF compatible assembler
Codeblocks IDE - free IDE
Qemu - great if you wanna program MIPS, PowerPC, ARM, x64 architectures without hardware
ResEdit - free resource editor

**satchmo** · 21-09-2009, 17:37

Oh and how could I forget RockScroll, one of the best Visual Studio plugins out there. The double-click highlighting is so handy... almost as handy as Visual Assist (sorely-needed intellisense replacement), but free.

amen · 02-10-2009, 22:53

my favourite
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

zynaps · 05-10-2009, 14:52

A little surprised nobody has mentioned AutoIt yet - a ridiculously useful scripting language for Windows which focuses on GUI automation, but is good for lots of other things too - I only wish there was a similar thing for OS X (AppleScript doesn't really suffice). The editor of choice in their release bundles is SciTE, which seems very nice in its own right, but since I'm on a Mac at home I use Aquamacs Emacs (and vi for quickie jobs on the command line).

Process Explorer and... well, actually all of the Sysinternals utility suite.

TortoiseSVN is a nice shell extension for versioning your files with Subversion repositories.

**Sparks** · 05-10-2009, 16:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by zynaps

TortoiseSVN is a nice shell extension for versioning your files with Subversion repositories.

And there's also TortoiseHG which does the same thing for Mercurial repositories.

18-09-2009, 11:19	#1
Evil Phil Moderator Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: West Indies Posts: 7,109 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Development, Outdoor Pursuits	Developer Tools and Resources Found something useful, then let us know.

18-09-2009, 11:36	#2
Evil Phil Moderator Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: West Indies Posts: 7,109 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Development, Outdoor Pursuits	Here's some of my toolkit Edit Plus http://www.typetester.com/ - font sizing utility Winrar Eclipse (I've recently returned to Java development) Visual Studio Some good online resources http://stackoverflow.com/ http://serverfault.com http://thinkvitamin.com/ http://www.w3schools.com/ This forum Last edited by Sparks; 28-05-2011 at 17:16.

18-09-2009, 15:39	#4
Sparks Category Moderator Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 30,710 Adverts \| Friends CMod: Development, Robotics, Servers & Systems, Shooting, Sports, Sports Mods	Vim and particularly gVim with a half-dozen addons. That's my primary work environment, right there. Gcc is my main compiler for C programming. Make is, well, make Artistic Style is a nice filter to run code through to ensure consistent formatting. It's a small thing, but small things count. And it can be fired from vim as well. Boxes, also fired from vim, is handy for formatting some comments and other stuff. Trac is my current ticket-tracking software. I've also tried (and bugfixed) Mantis and Bugzilla, but Trac is just more user-friendly, especially on smaller projects. Mercurial for version control. PgAdmin3 for working with Postgresql MySQL Query Browser for most of my MySQL work (though MySQL Admin gets used a fair bit too) PEAR and PECL for PHP libraries XDebug for LAMP-stack debug work and DDD for debugging C/C++ Last edited by Sparks; 18-09-2009 at 15:43.

19-09-2009, 02:20	#5
satchmo Moderator Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,411 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Jazz & Blues	Some resources more oriented towards graphics & game developers.... Real-Time Rendering - one of the best books out there, and a great resource for up-to-date rendering-related links. Their blog is regularly updated with good stuff too. GameDevelopers.ie - a community for Irish game developers in Ireland and around the world. A good graphing applet that I often use for plotting various functions. nVidia's developer zone - full of good stuff, including full online copies of GPU Gems 1, 2 and 3. Their Photoshop DDS plugin is especially useful. AMD developer central - similarly good resources, but for AMD chips and ATI GPUs. Home of handy tools like RenderMonkey and GPU MeshMapper. Gamasutra - home of Game Developer magazine and various good online articles. The post mortems are always a good read. GameDev.net - probably the biggest indie game developer community site... the forums are a good resource for finding answers to problems you're having (someone else has probably had the same problem) DevMaster.net - Similar to GDnet but smaller. Valve, Insomniac and Crytek all have great pages collecting various presentations and publications given at conferences about their work. Insomniac's is especially good, going above and beyond the usual GDC presentations. And finally xkcd, just because it's awesome.

21-09-2009, 15:07	#11
weiss Banned Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 246 Adverts \| Friends	Mingw GNU toolchain for windows - C/C++ JWASM x86 PE/ELF compatible assembler Codeblocks IDE - free IDE Qemu - great if you wanna program MIPS, PowerPC, ARM, x64 architectures without hardware ResEdit - free resource editor Last edited by weiss; 21-09-2009 at 21:13.

18-09-2009, 11:38	#3
nuttz Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 389 Adverts \| Friends	jarFinder solve classpath problems quickly http://www.jarfinder.com/

19-09-2009, 21:59	#7
NeverSayDie Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 401 Adverts \| Friends	I've been using the Regex Coach for years as quick little tool to debug/design regex's, very handy; http://weitz.de/regex-coach/ Post from Scott Hanselman a few months back, listing a bunch of utilities and developer tools he uses, some good stuff in there; http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottH...orWindows.aspx On a .NET specific note, if you're P/Invoking back to the Win32 and other APIs, this site is very useful for getting calling profiles; http://pinvoke.net/ Also re MS tech, they have a very handy Web Platform Installer, for getting set up with a Windows development environment in a hurry - Visual Studio, IIS, SQL, ASP.NET or PHP, etc. Also lets you grab various open source apps - wikis, blogs, forums, etc. http://www.microsoft.com/web/Downloads/platform.aspx If you want to get started/get further with ASP.NET development, lots of video tutorials and other resources here; http://www.asp.net/ The MSDN Magazine tends to have some pretty interesting stuff, plus some in-depth material; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx Back when I worked with Perl, I used to use a text editor called Context, was simple but good. It's still going, AFAIK; http://www.contexteditor.org/ These days as a lightweight/backup text editor I've been using Notepad++, pretty nice app. Does code folding, search across files, syntax highlighting and various other handy tricks. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

20-09-2009, 23:35	#9
fasty Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 979 Adverts \| Friends	LINQPad - Great for testing LINQ like you would SQL. .Net Reflector - Browse the code in .Net assemblies. Very useful little tool.

21-09-2009, 11:39	#10
Genghiz Cohen Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: A Room With a Moose Posts: 5,596 Adverts \| Friends	3rd level student? Want professional tools? DreamSpark Thank you Microsoft.

21-09-2009, 17:37	#12
satchmo Moderator Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Montreal Posts: 1,411 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Jazz & Blues	Oh and how could I forget RockScroll, one of the best Visual Studio plugins out there. The double-click highlighting is so handy... almost as handy as Visual Assist (sorely-needed intellisense replacement), but free.

02-10-2009, 22:53	#13
amen Registered User Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Galway Posts: 2,181 Adverts \| Friends	my favourite http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

05-10-2009, 14:52	#14
zynaps Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Killester Posts: 1,383 Adverts \| Friends	A little surprised nobody has mentioned AutoIt yet - a ridiculously useful scripting language for Windows which focuses on GUI automation, but is good for lots of other things too - I only wish there was a similar thing for OS X (AppleScript doesn't really suffice). The editor of choice in their release bundles is SciTE, which seems very nice in its own right, but since I'm on a Mac at home I use Aquamacs Emacs (and vi for quickie jobs on the command line). Process Explorer and... well, actually all of the Sysinternals utility suite. TortoiseSVN is a nice shell extension for versioning your files with Subversion repositories.

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