Comments on: Tool List 2008

By: Chris Brandsma

Chris Brandsma — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:15:23 +0000

@Eric,

CSS Vista works for XP and Vista. Very little software only works for Vista these days.

By: Erik Cox

Erik Cox — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:52:48 +0000

Hi!
I just read your post and find it most interesting and useful (I used your list to try some of the software you listed)…the Free Download Manager is truly great i just tried it out ..and also I was just wondering ..i see you mentioned CSS Vista here ..so I was just wondering …do you know is there something similar for Microsoft XP users..cause I am guessing this only works on Vista

By: Jason Hinsperger

Jason Hinsperger — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:26:28 +0000

Hey Chris, as one of the product managers for SQL Anywhere I’d love to hear from you on any feedback you have regarding the iAnywhere tools (I assume you are using SQL Anywhere).
Feel free to drop me a line.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:35:42 +0000

My List is very similar to chris

Teamviewer — connect to any computer

By: Iain Holder

Iain Holder — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:27:49 +0000

“Code Generators are cool.”

I respectfully disagree. Objects should be generated, not code.

By: Helge Schneider

Helge Schneider — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:01:55 +0000

You should take a look at these:

- Altap Salamander (NC-like file manager)
- SmartSVN (excellent SVN client, much better than TortoiseSVN)

Helge

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:46:14 +0000

You should also check out Gist (www.gist.com). It works with Outlook as well as Gmail and any other web-based information source (LinkedIn, etc.) combining your contacts with news about them.

Robert
Gist, Inc.

By: Steve Py

Steve Py — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:57:07 +0000

For me it’s a mix of WinForm & Web, not so much WPF yet.

I do tend to be using regular expressions from time to time so I like to have a copy of Expresso handy.

For Mocking I used to use Rhino, now I use Moq.

By: Chris Brandsma

Chris Brandsma — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:27:48 +0000

@Don, I’ll have to look into the Daemon Tools thing.

@Hadi, good list. Some of those just come down to preference.
About HTTPFox, FireBug actually comes with a nice traffic piece in the console tab. That usually works for me. But I’ll look into that one.

By: Hadi Hariri

Hadi Hariri — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:21:31 +0000

Surprisingly similar to mine

Beyond Compare – Diff/Merge tool
Launchy – Launch tool
TextPad
SnagIT

and try the HTTPFox traffic monitor add-on for Firefox (Fiddler for FF)