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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 gus_massa »

Two additional utilities y like:

* 7+ Taskbar Tweaker ( http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker ): allows you to configure various aspects of the Windows taskbar, for example reorder and regroup the programs in the taskbar.

* Network Activity Indicator (http://www.itsamples.com/network-activity-indicator.html ): displays the old 'two monitors' icon in Windows 7 that flashed blue to show network activity. (Well, this don’t belong to the OP list because the only purpouse is to clutter the systray, but I like it.)

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by gabrielrdz »

sz4kerto wrote: post #77
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.

no way windows search will ever replace Everything. Windows search is slow and it will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by jebblue »

noinsight wrote: post #62
Havoc wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TC occasionally bombs out if you queue too much stuff - i.e. it just closes ... and thus looks like its done when really its not. Maybe thats why you got 0kb files. Win7 + copying is decent enough for most non-lan purposes though. Speaking on copying failing - I stopped using TotalCommander for that reason. It just says disk full (not true) out of the blue. Messaged the author & got some bullshit response.

> Win7 + copying is decent enough for most non-lan purposes though. It's not. If a single file fails on Win7 it cancels the whole operation (how is that possible on an OS released in 2009?! Fixed in Win8 though, that will never be used in corporations though), it fails if the path becomes longer than 255 characters etc. Robocopy works but I'd much rather use rsync which is not available on Windows unless you use hack…

>> unless you use hacked up versions with cygwin

I use standard Cygwin and rsync and ssh when I have to use Windows and use them to backup Windows to a Linux box and it works great.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by wrongc0ntinent »

AutoHotkey is a great way to get your kids coding. Not sure if there's anything like it for what kids use most nowadays, iOS and Android tablets, but having them make macros and letting them manipulate their favorite piece of software in ways they didn't think possible is usually an eye opener.

Edit: I'd add SpaceSniffer to this list.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by corresation »

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.

That's very dismissive of a very real problem. When you add friction to comments, people either

a) Don't write them in the first place. b) Don't keep them up to date (as to3m mentioned, it is utterly ridiculous when you need to update a comment and then need to reflow every following sentence. Many developers will simply not do it).

Additionally another counterpoint seems to be "my comments are short anyways", which would make me question why comment in the first place? In most cases where I've seen short comments, they were completely unnecessary redundant restating of exactly what the code already tells you.

The comments that really add real value don't try to pseudo-code the code, but instead tell you the why of the code. It is extremely hard to describe why in 80 characters or less.

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