Django.
Makes me way more productive, and the guys who wrote it know a lot more about web dev than me. It has taught me a lot and made me a better coder as well as improving my productivity. Docs are good as well.
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#602awk, grep, sed, and these days I add jq to my standard tool belt. I also really enjoy fish as my shell language of choice. Languages, runtimes, etc come and go but these programs remain as useful as they were 19 years ago when I first learned about them.
Oh I can't remember the time before `jq`. It should be part of the standard linux toolset.
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#603Postgresql. Such a marvel of reliability and good design. All features just logically and consistently work with each other.
From the perspective of a GIS professional, I would add the PostGIS extension for PostgreSQL. The depth of spatial analysis options in PostGIS combined with the reliability and performance of PostgreSQL make a great combination. Throw in the cost savings compared to running MS SQL Server/Oracle + ESRI ArcGIS Server and I'm not sure why more GIS shops don't make the switch (Fear of FOSS, the command line, or having to…
I'm not sure why more GIS shops don't make the switch
As another GIS professional I've found that the answer to this question in roughly 100% of the cases is that they have some important application (either third party or in house) that doesn't trivially talk with PostGIS and they don't see the cost saving once they've factored in all the migration costs. So vendor lock-in basically.
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#604Nobody has mentioned screen. This is unacceptable! screen is extremely reliable and useful. I'd like to say emacs, but it's not really that "reliable" in that it often goes crazy and eats up a CPU, and I must maintain separate .emacs files for slightly different computers and vintages of emacs. It does work very well though.
Byobu too is a great tool (that builds on top of screen and tmux)
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#605Emacs. Does what I need, is versatile and fast.
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#606FME (www.safe.com)
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#607Emacs, git, GIMP, postgres, SBCL, Winamp, uTorrent (old version), PuTTY, Dropbox, 7zip, IrfanView
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#608Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, Brief. I used it, years ago. Very fast [1] and good text editor [2]. A few years back, in Boston, I was introduced to the person who wrote it. [1] It had all kinds of shortcuts for speed. I think I remember one where, if you pressed an arrow key for a short while, it would move the cursor (up/down/left/right) at some speed. If you held the key down for longer, it would guess that you wanted to move longer distan…
So cool you've met him! I believe he also authored SuperDuper on the Mac, another excellent piece of software I've used in the past. And yes, the speed and the quality of Brief. Especially the fact it didn't try to malloc the whole size of the file, rare nowadays. Opening a 40MB file on my Win98 PC with 8MB of RAM was, essentially, an instantaneous op. Fast forward to last week and one of the IDE's praised elsewhere…
Ha, good points ...
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#609On Windows: Everything - simple and quick file search tool Ditto - clipboard history Nokia PC Suite - I still use Nokia 808 PW as my primary device, and the PC Suite is one of the reasons Puush - quick screenshot/file sharing tool KVIrc - IRC client Pidgin - multi-protocol IM client Opera 12 - living with this thing is becoming increasingly difficult, but I don't want to imagine living without it WinDirStat - storage…
Can you integrate Pidgin with Google Hangouts?
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#610From the desktop, most of my development toolkit: bash, vim, git, etc. On the server side of things: nginx, haproxy, redis, memcached, cron, logrotate, Linux And controversially (probably since I've learned their quirks): MySQL, Nagios. They all just... work. I use these tools to set up a server, and after configured, the VM usually goes down before they do. On the flip side of things, tools I have to use and highly…
I'd say give MariaDB a try. It does everything MySQL does, fully compatibly without the guilt of supporting Oracle.
Using MySQL does not support Oracle, unless you buy their support packages. If anything, it's a cost center to them.
That said, I do prefer the PerconaDB packages myself, but that's because they are a pure superset of the core MySQL, and improvements to MySQL are improvements to PerconaDB.