Ultimate Developer Laptop Apps (Wintel)

[thunderlizard]

SQL Server 2008 express
Oracle 11g enterprise edition

That's going to slow things down, unless you have at least one of them turned off by default.
I'd have
some kind of source code control repository
otherwise I think you've got everything covered.

[doodab]

gvim
cygwin
WinSCP
Putty

Plus eclipse or springsource tool suite as I am (mostly) doing Java these days.

[2BIT]

Hi All,

Just bought me a nice new laptop purely for work (Win XP Pro 32-bit) and am filling it with all the tools I need (preferrably free where I can get them), I thought I'd try and get together a good list of definitive apps and tools for general dev so please add suggestions or improvements. I work in BI so don't tend to need the heavy heavy dev tools.


Office 2003
SQL Server 2008 express
Oracle 11g enterprise edition
Toad for Oracle
Filezilla (client and server)
LDAP Browser
Visual Studio Express
Apache Tomcat
vmware workstation
7zip
cutepdf
google chrome
firefox
Notepad ++
WinMerge
Replacem
Agent Ransack
Paint.net
Hypersnap
Process Explorer
TcpView
FileMon
duplicate cleaner
threatfire
spybot
cccleaner
anti-malware

I'm sure there are lots of things I may have missed but may find useful, so if you were in my position which apps would you be putting on a new laptop as 'must haves'?