Must have Apps for developers on Windows

Writing by shivdev on Friday, 10 of September , 2010 at 10:37 pm

I just got a new Dell E6510 with Win-XP (yeah its 2010!).  Win-XP is almost 10 years old and it’s still kicking! I wanted Windows 7, but our IT Department didn’t have an image yet. So an ancient rock-solid OS is what I got. Believe it or not Win-XP is still the most popular OS. Yes folks, please stop bashing Microsoft.

OK – My Dev box is Linux and my home laptop is a MacBook Pro. Yet, I still feel most productive on Windows. So, as a developer, I must have at least these apps:

• Web/Net-Apps
  • Mozilla Firefox plus plugins
  • Google Chrome plus plugins
  • WinSCP
  • Putty
  • FileZilla
  • No Machine NX Client
  • VNC Viewer
  • TCP View
  • Skype
  • Synergy
• Development
  • Apache Ant
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Araxis Merge
  • Eclipse plus plugins
  • JDK 6
  • MKS Toolkit (or some Unix type environment)
  • Notepad++
  • Perforce (or equivalent VCS)
  • SnagIt (screen capture)
  • PDF Creator
• Microsoft Office 2007
  • Outlook
  • Excel
  • Word
  • PPT
• Media
  • VMWare Player
  • VLC Media Player
  • Bit Torrent
  • DVD Shrink
  • iTunes
• Other
  • WinZip, 7-Zip or any archiving utility
  • Google Desktop
  • AutoHotkey

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