What are the tools you just can't live without.

[rnbergren]

I was just discussing with a new programmer and I always install the following. Virtual Clone Drive 7-zip System Internals WinDirStat What do you use? That might be good for him. I am so used to these they are just my stand by utilities on any windows machine. http://rnbergren.blogspot.com

[M dHatter]

charlie sheen? :laugh:

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain

[gavindon]

rnbergren wrote:

7-zip

I use winrar, since I have had it for some time and simply do not wish to change something that still works.

rnbergren wrote:

Virtual Clone Drive

I use magic disk for this one. works quite well. I also like to use notepad++ for quick viewing of code or comparisons when I do not wish to fire up the full IDE. Notepad++ will color the code similar to an IDE and lets you open multiple tabs etc etc. Also has a lot of plugins and stuff supposedly that I have not even touched yet.

Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning.

[realJSOP]

Visual Studio SQL Server Manager Various platform tools/toolkits A hammer

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

[Nagy Vilmos]

Hammer and duct tape.

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Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

[moon_stick]

What about WD40??!

Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

[Nagy Vilmos]

moon_stick wrote:

WD40

Liquid hammer.

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Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

[M dHatter]

Dont forget lotion ;)

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain

[Marc A Brown]

No firearms in your list? For shame. For shame! :laugh:

[Henry Minute]

A large rubber mallet. A stick of chalk. A peanut. Some petroleum jelly.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

[Maximilien]

Visual Assist.

Watched code never compiles.

[realJSOP]

It's hard to categorize firearms. They cool be tools, toys, sporting equipment, or even sexual aids. :)

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

[Dalek Dave]

That is not work, that is a lifestyle choice.

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[thrakazog]

You forgot the jar of mayonnaise and a rake.

[wizardzz]

Any decompiler. I would have lost my previous job if it had not been for a decompiler...

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[S Houghtelin]

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

or even sexual aids.

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease don't elaborate!!! :wtf:

It was broke, so I fixed it.

[Gary Wheeler]

Bazooka. There, I said it :laugh:.

Software Zen: delete this;

[Dalek Dave]

I am a Rake, I take the magazine[^]

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[JOAT MON]

Marc A. Brown wrote:

No firearms in your list?

I am pretty sure that is what he referred to as a "hammer". :-D

Jack of all trades ~ Master of none.

[Lost User]

For duct tape errors?

Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP