Archive for August, 2007

Developer tools I can’t live without

A list of the stuff that makes my life as a developer much easier.

Clear Context : Ok not really a developers tool but I can’t live without this. Why should I spend my valuable time filing & managing emails when Clear Context can do it for you & with great ease. Anyone (everyone) that has MS Outlook should consider using this (or at least check out the free tiral).

Diagram Designer by MeeSoft : forget Visio, this is so easy to use, much faster than visio & free.

Iron Speed Designer : Rapidly generate asp.net website with ease.

MyGeneration : Where would any good developer be without a raipd code generator & ORM

Notepad++ : Text editor with syntax highlighting & packed with other great features.

OnTime : Excellent Bug tracking software with built in help desk & project management, the best part is it has a free single user license :D

Paint.Net : Excellent MS Paint replacement, its free & packed with greate features.

StudioTools : This is an excellent & very helpful add-in to Visual studio that (among many other features) allows the floating of a code window so you can put it on your second monitor for those that have multiple monitor setups (added 21-July-08).

SubSonic : The Zero Code DAL (generates a Rails like ORM for .net applications)

The ALl-Seeing Eye : Ok not really a development tool but excellent for gamming after a hard days work :P

Toad for SQL Server : Replace ment for the Sql Ent Manager / Studio (with many enhancements)

vDbCompare : Yes this is our own software but we really like it & it gets good usage.

Visual Assist X : Visual Studio Add-in that provides better auto type suggestion & improved syntax hilighting .

xSql Object : the BEST (I’m not joking) database schema & data compare tool I have ever seen, simply beautiful & free for small databases, greate work xSql Software!

This is just a small list of stuff I can not live without, enjoy!