Ultimate Developer Laptop Apps (Wintel)

[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'?

 

[doodab]

gvim
cygwin
WinSCP
Putty

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

 

[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.

 

[2BIT]

WinSCP
Putty

have you used filezilla? if so why do feel WinSCP is superior (or is because filezilla only does FTP?)

out of interest what do you use telnet for? i've only ever used it to debug network probs - just interested is all

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.

yeah will only have one at a time, SQL Server is easy enough to stand up but definitely want oracle installed and ready to go so I can switch it on and just use it

what do you use git or mercurial/subversion or something else?

 

[thunderlizard]

Microsoft TFS for my source code control, but before that I was using perforce.

 

[doodab]

have you used filezilla? if so why do feel WinSCP is superior (or is because filezilla only does FTP?)

out of interest what do you use telnet for? i've only ever used it to debug network probs - just interested is all

In some environments e.g. my current one, ftp is simply banned as it's considered insecure. SCP works over SSH, which means you don't have to run ftpd on the server.

PuTTY is used for connecting to unix machines via SSH.

If given truly free reign e.g. using my own hardware, I sometimes use a linux VM on my laptop which has all these sorts of tools available on the command line. Of course their utility depends somewhat on whether the client environment is Unix / Linux or Windows.

 

[mudskipper]

SQL Developer is free and does most of what Toad does.

 

[2BIT]

In some environments e.g. my current one, ftp is simply banned as it's considered insecure. SCP works over SSH, which means you don't have to run ftpd on the server.

PuTTY is used for connecting to unix machines via SSH.

right, gotcha.

PuTTY gets mentioned a lot and I may have to work with unix boxes in the future so it's worth a look

 

[2BIT]

SQL Developer is free and does most of what Toad does.

yeah I've recently got this on my clients machine but haven't used it much yet, toad is OK it is not as good as I thought it might be, I prefer the Microsoft SQL IDE, well 2005 upwards. I may try and get on with just this and drop toad

 

[Spacecadet]

Just bought me a nice new laptop purely for work

Nice, what spec?

Win XP Pro 32-bit
Office 2003
SQL Server 2008 express

If you're serious about the Microsoft BI stack then you really need:
Windows 7
Office 2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition

The way you're going you seem to want to become obsolete.

VMWare is very handy for quickly creating dev environments