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What tools and services do you now consider part of your daily workflow?

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  • C Chris Maunder

    I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?

    cheers Chris Maunder

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    Jacquers
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    I have to add some more to my list: Time Tracking: Clockify & Jira Collaboration: Jira & Confluence Database: pgAdmin Also Excel as a general utility.

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    • C Chris Maunder

      I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?

      cheers Chris Maunder

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      Jacquers
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      Good old pen and paper for working out ideas and prototyping :)

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      • C Chris Maunder

        I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?

        cheers Chris Maunder

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        Stuart Dootson
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        I do desktop app development - my daily workflow revolves around: * Visual Studio Code - editor & I use the integrated terminal to get stuff done. I prefer to Visual Studio - it's a personal preference thing. * WSL with an Ubuntu 18.04 distro - I use Linux for a) bash (don't like CMD & Powershell so much), b) building and testing and debugging on Linux * Visual Studio C++ tools - I needs MSVC * g++ - primary Linux build toolchain * clang - provides C/C++ formatting (clang-format) and static analysis (clang-tidy & clang static analyser) * CMake - build generator * Ninja - build tool * gdb - Linux debug through VSCode * git, GitKraken - command-line git mostly, but I like GitKraken for preparing commits when I've been bad & done multiple commits worth of work without actually committing... * fd, rg and various other Linux tools - `fd` is a `find` replacement, `rg` is a `grep` replacement. They work so much faster than `find` and `grep` and ignore files in your `.gitignore` - perfect for codebase searches. * 1Password - my favourite password manager * [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/), LaTeX - I prepare my documentation in Markdown & publish to HTML & PDF with [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) & LaTeX. It all uses pre-prepared workflows & is fully automated - Markdown in, nice looking HTML and PDF out!

        Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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        • C Chris Maunder

          I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?

          cheers Chris Maunder

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          ZevSpitz
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          Anyone else using LINQPad?

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            Anyone else using LINQPad?

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            rnbergren
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            not unless you absolutely have to

            To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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            • C Chris Maunder

              I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?

              cheers Chris Maunder

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              rnbergren
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              looking thru most of the answers. I would add. Besides Powershell, VSCode, VS2019, SSMS. MS OneNote - OneNote is the bomb www.systeminternals.com - Sys Int is just needed Agent Ransack - Search utility Color pic http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/   GIMP or Paint.net or photochop - Again take your pic. All do the job. I use Gimp Gsplit for sending large files to someone notepad++

              To err is human to really mess up you need a computer

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              • G Gary R Wheeler

                These are all tools I use daily: 1. Coffee (makes me decide to live another day) 2. Coffee (ensures I let the rest of you live another day) 3. Remote Desktop (working from home) 4. Visual Studio 5. Trace Viewer (an in-house debugging tool) 6. Visual SourceSafe (don't; just don't) 7. Coffee (renews #1 and #2) 8. Chrome, Google, www.codeproject.com :cool: and www.stackoverflow.com :~ 9. Notepad 10. Paint.net 11. Builder (in-house automated build tool) These are as needed: 12. WinMerge 13. SysInternals suite

                Software Zen: delete this;

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                Matt Bond
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                We have VSS and TFS. Management/Corp IT is making us move to 100% TFS, but most of us like VSS better. Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere

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                  We have VSS and TFS. Management/Corp IT is making us move to 100% TFS, but most of us like VSS better. Bond Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere

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                  Gary R Wheeler
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                  I looked at TFS. Even for a small group like ours, it would have required someone maintaining it full time. While git is not terribly intuitive, at least the maintenance is simple.

                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                  • G Gary R Wheeler

                    I looked at TFS. Even for a small group like ours, it would have required someone maintaining it full time. While git is not terribly intuitive, at least the maintenance is simple.

                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                    StarNamer work
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                    What maintenance? We've been using TFS for over 8 years (now also use VSTS and Git).The TFS system "just works". Developers check stuff in and out, merge to test and release branches, run the build tools and don't really think about it. I suppose there's a bit of "maintenance" adding new users or if someone moves to a new project, and, of course, the Systems team backs up the server and its database, but we've found it's generally set it and forget it.

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                    • Z ZevSpitz

                      Anyone else using LINQPad?

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                      Chris Maunder
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                      Matthew uses it, I think

                      cheers Chris Maunder

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                      • C Chris Maunder

                        I was thinking about how my development life has changed a little in the last decade. No longer is it just Visual Studio. It's Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps, and SQL Server management studio, and pgAdmin, and Redis desktop manager, npm and webpack, Chrome and DevTools, CodeProject and SO, remote desktop, PowerShell, and all the ridiculousness around hosting, domain management and DNS. That's a lotta stuff, which I guess I could group roughly as IDEs Build tools Debug tools Data storage management Remote management tools Source code control Library management systems Hosting services and tools (including backups) Community support [also: Office + online Office (MS + Google)] [also: Security apps (password managers / authorisation apps)] [also: Chat / video conference apps] [also: graphic design apps] Coffee Is this normal? Anything else you guys are generally using day to day (or no longer using these days)?

                        cheers Chris Maunder

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                        Sharp Ninja
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                        * Visual Studio 2019 + Re# 2020 * VSCode plus about 5000 extensions * Azure Data Studio plus lots of extensions * Windows 10 20H1 (.net Framework 4.8) * Windows Terminal * WinGet/Chocolatey/Scoop * WSL2 + Pengwin * Docker Desktop (Linux in WSL2) * SQL Server * Azure DevOps (Git, Pipelines) * Azure WebApps * Azure SQL

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                        • G Gary R Wheeler

                          These are all tools I use daily: 1. Coffee (makes me decide to live another day) 2. Coffee (ensures I let the rest of you live another day) 3. Remote Desktop (working from home) 4. Visual Studio 5. Trace Viewer (an in-house debugging tool) 6. Visual SourceSafe (don't; just don't) 7. Coffee (renews #1 and #2) 8. Chrome, Google, www.codeproject.com :cool: and www.stackoverflow.com :~ 9. Notepad 10. Paint.net 11. Builder (in-house automated build tool) These are as needed: 12. WinMerge 13. SysInternals suite

                          Software Zen: delete this;

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                          thewazz
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                          I'll add Diffuse to the 'as needed' section.

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