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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by noselasd »

TheAnimus wrote: post #30
to3m wrote: post #15

I don't know why people have such a blind spot in this regard, but Visual Studio's non-support for word-wrapping comments is obviously shameful. It's utterly ridiculous that you have to press Return while writing comments, and then more ridiculous yet that you have to go back and re-wrap them by hand when they change! - and the end result of course is that people usually don't bother, with the wrapping becoming stead…

To be honest it's not a problem I have, I like to keep my comments short and punchy. If I'm writing war and peace, it will only ever be for the class comment at the top, for some reason I manually do my own line breaks then as I feel it can be used to break up thought and provide emphasis. However, I'm also a GhostDoc fan: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx So I appreciate some people consider me to be inheren…

Even if it's a problem you'd have, you really have a luxury problem if having to press enter when writing comments is the thngs you worry about when delivering code.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by pessimizer »

noselasd wrote: post #71
TheAnimus wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be honest it's not a problem I have, I like to keep my comments short and punchy. If I'm writing war and peace, it will only ever be for the class comment at the top, for some reason I manually do my own line breaks then as I feel it can be used to break up thought and provide emphasis. However, I'm also a GhostDoc fan: http://submain.com/products/ghostdoc.aspx So I appreciate some people consider me to be inheren…

Even if it's a problem you'd have, you really have a luxury problem if having to press enter when writing comments is the thngs you worry about when delivering code.

Not if you kill yourself after the 9000th time you've had to do it. Death is a real hardship for people of all income levels.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by 6cxs2hd6 »

justinmk wrote: post #37
brudgers wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're missing something, perhaps it is the use of literary license. The article is written for an audience not as a therapeutic journal. Sure regular expressions can be learned as quickly as one can type del *.* but a few hours of study isn't going to make much of their syntax stick two weeks later, and two weeks between uses is a lot more frequent than most computer users use them. Everyone ain't a programmer.

> Sure regular expressions can be learned as quickly as one can type del *.* That is not a regex, it's a glob/wildcard pattern.

Well it's also a regexp: It's "del" followed by zero or more spaces followed by zero or more of any char. :)

Although I feel competent with moderately complex regexps, I'm not sure I'd want to use them instead of globs while slinging my valuable files at the command line.

Which I think goes back to the ancestor point -- is it crazy to use a GUI to make regexps for you? Although I too can get snooty about that, I think it's smart for someone who doesn't use regexps frequently in their work -- but on the rare occasions they need to, they need to get it right.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by PavlovsCat »

gchucky wrote: post #60

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.

SmartGit is also nice: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by adamors »

gchucky wrote: post #60

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.

SourceTree is such a great program. It's also very intuitive and nooby friendly, as opposed to Github for Windows which never seized to confuse me and I've been using Git for years.

With SourceTree, people completely new to Git and version control can get things done.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by sz4kerto »

aktau wrote: post #55

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).

Windows 8.1 built-in search kind of makes this redundant.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by zackboe »

morganherlocker wrote: post #69
hobs wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you like windows snipping tool, http://getgreenshot.org/ is an open source software that does all the things that snipper does, and more (like a snagit replacement). Window, region, freeform windows. Uploads to various services. Configuration to allow automatic save locations and types. I use it every day!

I second this one. I have used it for years as my default snipper.

I've been a huge fan of ShareX (previously ZScreen) for quite awhile. I believe it incorporates Greenshot.

http://getsharex.com

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by eps »

cpbotha wrote: post #57
eps wrote: post #45

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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! :)

Yeah, positive. Just ran a quick test copying 3GB .iso from local HDD to USB3 drive.

  fastcopy - 152 sec (average of 3 fastest runs out of 4)
  robocopy - 65 sec
Incidentaly, tried the same with my backup program and it's 62 seconds, faster than both.
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