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... really? All I use is Sublime, Terminal, and Google Chrome.
Exactly. An editor, a shell and a browser is all you need. I feel sorry for all MS devs who have to use so many platform-specific tools.
It largely depends on the domain in which they are working, and their own preferences to the tools the use.
- Sublime Text 2
- Gtalk+Google Hangout
- Gmail
- Decent Operating system with decent package management and shell (for example ubuntu + apt-get + bash)
- Git
- Google Chrome
- Cloud
- HackerNews
All of a sudden it occurs to me that two people can be called 'programmer' and do radically different things. Surely the typical programmer's toolbox is: an editor, a compiler/interpreter/magic lisp box/whatever, and possibly a debugger.
- 3Dconnexion 3DxSoftware (3D mouse driver)
- 7-Zip
- ActiveState Komodo IDE
- Araxis Merge
- AutoHotkey_L
- Camtasia Studio
- Corel PaintShop Pro X5
- Evernote
- Everything (fast disk search)
- Eye-One Match (display calibrator)
- Fiddler (debugging proxy server)
- FolderSizes 6
- Git and various git clients (none I'm crazy about)
- Google App Engine
- Google Chrome (and Canary)
- Google Earth
- GraphicsMagick
- HM NIS Edit
- iDisplay (use Android device as extra display)
- ImageMagick
- IntelliJ IDEA
- JetBrains ReSharper
- JKLmouse (my keyboard home row mouse control program)
- Manifold System (GIS)
- MarkdownPad
- Microsoft Office 2010
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
- Mozilla Firefox
- Nullsoft Install System
- PaymoPlus (automatic time tracking)
- pdfsam (PDF split and merge)
- PostGIS
- PostgreSQL
- PuTTY (just for Pageant to use with git)
- Python (several versions)
- Quantum GIS
- Ruby
- Safari
- SciTE4AutoHotkey
- StorageCraft ShadowProtect
- Sublime Text 2
- Take Command
- TortoiseGit
- TortoiseHg
- TypeScript
- UEStudio
- UltraMon
- VanDyke Software SecureCRT and SecureFX
- VistaSwitcher (better Alt+Tab menu)
- VMware Workstation
- WebDrive
- XML Marker 2.1 (great editor for JSON as well as XML)
- Zeus for Windows (Go IDE)
... really? All I use is Sublime, Terminal, and Google Chrome.
... really? All I use is Sublime, Terminal, and Google Chrome.
Exactly. An editor, a shell and a browser is all you need. I feel sorry for all MS devs who have to use so many platform-specific tools.
That's great that those are all you need, but they aren't all I need. I wouldn't be able to do the work I do with only those tools. And you wouldn't be able to do the work I do with only those tools either. :-)
Not comparing the value of my work or yours or our skills in selecting and using tools, just saying that the work we do is quite different, and requires different tools, even though we may both be called programmers.
> I feel sorry for all MS devs who have to use so many platform-specific tools.
Don't feel sorry. I'm not even an MS dev these days and I have a very lengthy list of tools I use routinely. (See elsewhere on this page.) And I like it that way: I'm happy that there are so many great tools available to me.