Favourite Development Toolz

phobos

Right,

I have been watching the ppl that frequent this board for the past while and I like their attitude towards SD. The whole open sourcing of the Boards is one influence amongst others. Since there are such a collection of generous and helpful ppl here, I though it would be a good idea to recommend what tools you would think every programmer should have in his box. Or even good sites!

My Contribution
Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise suite
MSDN
Dreamweaver 4.0
Flash 5.0
Paint shop pro 7.0

But the problem with what I've given is that they are the popular ones. Has anyone found anything that is not well known that should get some attention! Lettuce know

;-phobos-)

Chaos-Engine

Yes
I use Dreamweaver too... its my fav but before i had it I used this FREEWARE:

Evrsoft's "1st Page 2000"

it is an excellent HTML/CSS/XML/JScript Editing app.... I found it excellent. It even comes w/ sample Java to use... and Lots of freee JScript.It even has 4 different options of menu use...beginnner, intermediate, Expert and HArdcore

go check it out
I use it along side Dreamweaver

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Enygma

Homesite's a great editor for HTML and the like. It's the one used in Dreamweaver 4.
I'm starting to think every programmer should use Emacs too.
I'm not really one for IDE's y'see.

Evil Phil

Microsoft Java Software Development Kit 4.0
EditPlus v 2 (text/code editor)
COM Explorer

and of all things:
Batch (*.bat) files
The Command Prompt

The Corinthian

EditPlus 2
Interdev/VB6
Oracle JDeveloper
XML Spy
Nokia WAP Toolkit

...and DOS/the command prompt too

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Enygma

Forgot to mention Ant. Excellent tool for builds.
http://jakarta.apache.org/ant

kayos

Hmmm lets see

all types of work
the one the only command prompt theres so much you can do with it.....

Normal DB Work (MS SQL)
Visual InterDev
Query Analyzer
I Never Ever use SQL Enterprise manager since SQL 7 since its gone to the MMC version its the biggest pile of ****e ever.

Development Work
VS6/VS.NET (I'm a vb muppet)

Web Work
Notepad
UltraDev/InterDev
MS XSL Debugger

OLAP Work
MS DTS
InterDev
OLAP/Analysis Services
ProClairty 3/4 (mainly a client tool but generates some good base MDX to work on)

kayos

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finn_mac_cool

I've used the KAWA IDE for Java for years now, through various different versions, I'm using 5.0 now. It has a lot to offer in terms of fitting in between hardcore feature rich IDEs like JBuilder etc. and your basic text editor. Simple interface, not too much auto coding (which I hate) going on. Also, it doesn't highjack you code and put it's name all over the place.

The program used to be owed by a small company called tek-tools, but they sold it to Allaire, this has meant that it is integrated/supports some of their other products such as JRun.

Another useful feature is the ability to use various different JDK's and classpath setups without having to reconfigure the whole program.

Since the sale to Allaire, KAWA has moved somewhat closer to the JBuilder, big boy kinda IDE with loads of bells and whistle and a little bit away from the "simple but powerful" ideal that used to be their catchphrase. That said, it is much less propritory than a lot of other IDEs and in my opinion has the best learning curve for someone that just wants to get some code written.

Incidentally, it is easy to download the full featured program. Key-gens aren't too hard to find if you feel you need a little longer than the eval period to dscide ;-)