My developers toolbelt 2016
I cought a tweet a few days ago asking for your developers toolbelt, specifically on windows. And I gave a very short answer and mentioned I would blog about this:
@modocache @devlead vs code & Atom. Cmder. Outlook. Actually, wait a bit and I’ll blog my toolbelt ;)
— Sebastian PR Gingter (@PhoenixHawk) December 8, 2016
So, this is a more elaborate answer to the developers toolbelt question. My default windows developer installation contains the following:
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Windows 10 Professional (fully updated)
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.NET Frameworks active
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IIS Installed
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Dev-Mode enabled
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Linux Subsystem installed
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Windows Defender as Antivirus solution & default Firewall
(no external security software)
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IE, Edge, Chrome, Firefox (for testing, yes, I do quite a bit web dev :) )
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Git for Windows for commandline usage
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SourceTree as my graphical git client*
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Beyond Compare as my diff tool
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Cmder as my console of choice
(my previous blog post is about using the Linux bash on Windows in Cmder)
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Node Version Manager nvm for Windows, and as such a lot of node versions
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Primary IDE: Visual Studio 2015 (with ReSharper Ultimate)
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Secondary IDE: WebStorm
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.NET Sourcepad: LinqPad
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Primary Database: SQL Server 2016 Express
other DBMS as required by projects.
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Office 365
- OneNote for collaboration
- PowerPoint for presentations
- Outlook for e-mail comms
- Word for occasional paperwork
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Slack and TeamViewer for other comms / collab
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VSCode as my main text editor
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Atom as secondary text editor (i.e. large markdown files, where VSCode crashes)
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Genymotion android emulator (quite a bit faster than the normal one)
In the list above, except for ReSharper, I am not listing additional addons / extensions to the other listed tools.
- I also tried GitKraken, Tower for Windows and the GitHub client, but they are - in my opinion - not as usable as SourceTree. Especially Tower wastes too much screen estate.