Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows • Hacker News Board

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by sergiotapia » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 2:46 PM UTC

cowkingdeluxe wrote: post #47

I agree having Paint.NET on this list, it is pretty good. I used paint shop pro 6 (yes, the one made in 1999) and switched to Paint.NET last year. It has really expanded my capabilities with regard to art for game development. To get the most out of Paint.NET check out their plugins ( http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/forum/7-plugins-publis... ). It seems like there is a plugin for anything you can think of.

Another vote of confidence for Paint.NET from me. It's gotten to a point where I know the shortcuts by heart and can cut, resize, apply tweaks to images very very quickly and it integrates perfectly with windows.

It doesn't look horrible like GIMP. Please donate if you can, even $5 helps!

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by thearn4 » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 2:51 PM UTC

For python development, I'd also add Python(x,y) and/or Anaconda distributions for windows. They're binary installers that give you cpython interpreters + the kitchen sink when it comes to third party libraries and development tools.

Also, I have to disagree with the author about recommending µTorrent. It's become more and more adware ridden with each new update. Deluge is pretty good though.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by oliwary » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 2:55 PM UTC

My favorite tool on the list is Everything search, which instantly finds all files. It has completely changed the way I use the file system, to the point where I will rarely even open the Windows Explorer.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by sandGorgon » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

suhair wrote: post #27

Cmder[ http://bliker.github.io/cmder/ ] from that list changed how i view a windows commandline. My best windows tool discovery in 2013.

How would you compare git-shell for someone developing actively on windows.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by aktau » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

Even though I barely touch windows these days, when I do, I invariably use "everything" (http://www.voidtools.com/) to find where everything is. So fast, so minimalistic. It's like locate on crack (because it shows you stuff as you type and it automatically updatedb's).

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by michael_fine » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

Does anyone know of a list similar in scale and scope for Mac users?

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by cpbotha » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 3:01 PM UTC

eps wrote: post #45

cpbotha wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FastCopy does everything TeraCopy does, but faster and better: http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en (this is the only tool I miss when working on Linux)

On XP - perhaps, but on Windows 7 and up FastCopy and TeraCopy are both slower than or marginally comparable to robocopy, which is a built-in bulk copying tool. Microsoft did an amazing job with it in W7, robocopy is really damn fast.

Are you sure about that?

It's hard to find benchmarks, but things seem to point in the direction of fastcopy still being faster.

See e.g. http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2011/05/17/fastcopy-free-file-c... (robocopy comparison at the end)

Would be great to see benchmarks of course! :)

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by mistermann » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 3:04 PM UTC

JackMorgan wrote: post #20

nhebb wrote: post #8

> "NimbleText - Regular Expressions are hard and I'm not very smart. NimbleText lets me do crazy stuff with large amounts of text with it hurting so much [sic]." In case it's unclear from the description, NimbleText is a simple code generator. It's saved me a ton of time and keystrokes. Well worth the $20.

> "NimbleText - Regular Expressions are hard and I'm not very smart. NimbleText lets me do crazy stuff with large amounts of text with it hurting so much [sic]." I couldn't even read this part without laughing, all I hear is: "I'm too lazy to spend a few hours learning the free, extremely powerful tools available to me, so I'll use this weaker substitute instead. And it's only 20 bucks!" I overcame my eye rolling, an…

If buying a tool for $20 gets the job done just as well and saves the "few hours" of learning how to do it so-called "properly", it seems like the correct decision to me.

Based purely on this one single comment (which isn't much to go on to be fair) I wouldn't be giving someone like you too much broad authority on a project because you lack wise judgement skills in my opinion.

Since you mention laughing at people, you may not be aware of it, or care, but people ("idiot" managers and "idiot" users) might very well laugh at you behind their backs as well. If you lack perspective, the ability to consider issues from the point of view of different stakeholders, you're going to see a lot of idiots around you.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by Shizka » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 3:05 PM UTC

suhair wrote: post #27

Cmder[ http://bliker.github.io/cmder/ ] from that list changed how i view a windows commandline. My best windows tool discovery in 2013.

Oh that looks nice! I've been looking for something like this and I have been using MobaXterm, but it's a bit clunky from time to time. Will definitely check it out! Thanks.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by gchucky » Sat, Dec 21, 2013, 3:07 PM UTC

A great list overall. One alternative I'd offer: he recommends Github for Windows and Tortoise as Git clients. I've been using SourceTree for Windows (http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) and it's excellent. They've done a great job maintaining and keeping it up to date.