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Developer Tools

Developer Tools

Tools I find invaluable in my day-to-day work.

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Sublime Text 3 is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose.

Sublime Text

choco install sublimetext3

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Visual Studio Code

choco install visualstudiocode

In a former life at MathWorks I would give a lot of talks/presentations. Almost without fail somebody would ask me afterwards how I was zooming and drawing while showing my desktop. ZoomIt keeps out of your way until, with a quick keyboard shortcut, you need to focus the audience's attention on a particular detail.

Shotty takes screenshot including aero glass frame transparency and shadow.

Fast scriptable desktop automation with hotkeys.

For example, make the current window stay always on top.

^SPACE::  Winset, Alwaysontop, , A
choco install autohotkey

Simple, effective to-do lists.

Trello

Convert files from one markup format to another, e.g. Markdown to Word.

Customizable Windows console emulator with tabs.

choco install conemu

Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout. Looking sexy from the start.

cmder

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Process Explorer Process Explorer

choco install sysinternals

Curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP.

choco install curl

Simple collaboration from your desktop

GitHub Desktop

choco install githubdesktop

ReSharper makes Microsoft Visual Studio a much better IDE. .NET developers worldwide wonder how they've ever lived without ReSharper's code inspections, refactorings and navigation.

ReSharper

choco install resharper

The free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform.

choco install fiddler4

Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.

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