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 Friday, June 23, 2006

The worst part about changing jobs is having to setup a new dev machine with all the tools I like.  So, to help me remember, here’s a list of all the stuff I’m currently using and where to get it.  You may also find some of these useful.

Free Stuff 

Base4
BlogLines Notifier – For my blog reading
CopySourceAsHTML – VS05 addin to copy source code to the clip board as HTML
Cropper – Fantastic screen capture tool
Daemon Tools – Virtual CD mounter thingy
DebugView - Great for capturing trace (Ta Nic)
DPack – a big bunch of addins for VS 05
IIS6 Manager for XP
ieSpell – Spell checker for IE 6
Paint.Net – More than adequate image manipulation for my level or artistic ability.
PowerShell
Reflector - Dont use it often but when I do I love it (Ta again Nic)
Ruby On Rails – Ha, ha.  Just kidding Tim :]
Snippy – Useful for creating Snippets.
Spike – Network clipboard
SQLPrompt – RedGate’s Intellisence type thingy for SQL.  This is only free for a limited time so remember to backup a copy.
Synergy – Mouse & Keyboard sharing for multiple machine setups
XP Power Toys – Command Prompt Here, Alt-Tab Replacement, Image Resizer and others

Team System Goodness

Admin Tool – Manage users across all 3 servers.
SideKick’s – Handy utils for MSBuild, Workspaces & Status.
Team Edition for DB Pro’s  - CTP

Plus all the WinFx – sorry, .Net 3 stuff – have this on disk though

Not Free Stuff 

SQL Bundle – RedGate Tools – ESSENTIAL

I’m sure there’s more but that’s all I can find at present.

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