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A question for those who spend more time doing front-end web development: What do all of these much-touted Firefox development plugins like Firebug do that Chrome developer tools doesn't do?
Nice list! I see a few things I already have, and a bunch more that I'll check out. A question for those who spend more time doing front-end web development: What do all of these much-touted Firefox development plugins like Firebug do that Chrome developer tools doesn't do?
Disappointed that clink [1] didn't make it onto this list. :( Clink brings Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe! 1: http://code.google.com/p/clink/
SSH Tunnel Manager (open source). I don't really like managing tunnels via cmd so here's a GUI to do just that. https://code.google.com/p/ssh-tunnel-manager/
CryptSync (open source). This keeps a folder in sync with another one but encrypts the content of the destination folder. It's extremely useful to use with Dropbox where I keep everything encrypted. http://stefanstools.sourceforge.net/CryptSync.html
Greenshot (open source). I use this to get screenshots of a particular area of the screen like I would do on OSX with CTRL+SHIFT+4. http://getgreenshot.org/
Prepos App. A generic preprocessor for everything web (js, css, etc). http://alphapixels.com/prepros/
SPlayer (open source). I have no idea with I enjoy this video player more than VLC but I do. http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html
VistaSwitcher. It's an ALT+TAB replacement. http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html
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.
Disappointed that clink [1] didn't make it onto this list. :( Clink brings Bash's powerful command line editing to Microsoft Windows' cmd.exe! 1: http://code.google.com/p/clink/
I think it's in Cmder but I will update to include it because I know I use it.
A word of warning about TerraCopy- it can cause annoying errors when copying. I transferred many gigs of data from one computer to another over a LAN, some files transferred fine, others looked like they copied ok, but were actually 0kb in size on closer look. I'm not sure if it was a bug in that particular version or with the setup being used, but once I uninstalled TerraCopy the errors ceased.
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.
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Well, it's very-very fast in 8.1. I don't know why it does not find the document you want - it works quite well for me, YMMV obviously.
Have you used Everything? It is instant file name search. I guess recent Windows could have improved file name searching, but it has classically been pretty bad.
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…
Do the JetBrains IDEs have any fix like this? When I've used them, I have to go back and re-wrap my comments when they change...
file > settings > general > (uncheck "wrap when typing reaches margin")