All of a sudden it occurs to me that two people can be called 'programmer' and do radically different things. Surely the typical programmer's toolbox is: an editor, a compiler/interpreter/magic lisp box/whatever, and possibly a debugger.
I think the title should be "A typical .NET/Microsoft programmers toolbox", as most of the tools listed are useable by MS devs. Case in point, I'm a web developer and I don't have/need most of these in my working laptop (an mba11).
OK, here's my list, just the things I use frequently in my programming work and not all the other apps I have installed:<p>- 3Dconnexion 3DxSoftware (3D mouse driver)<p>- 7-Zip<p>- ActiveState Komodo IDE<p>- Araxis Merge<p>- AutoHotkey_L<p>- Camtasia Studio<p>- Corel PaintShop Pro X5<p>- Evernote<p>- Everything (fast disk search)<p>- Eye-One Match (display calibrator)<p>- Fiddler (debugging proxy server)<p>- FolderSizes 6<p>- Git and various git clients (none I'm crazy about)<p>- Google App Engine<p>- Google Chrome (and Canary)<p>- Google Earth<p>- GraphicsMagick<p>- HM NIS Edit<p>- iDisplay (use Android device as extra display)<p>- ImageMagick<p>- IntelliJ IDEA<p>- JetBrains ReSharper<p>- JKLmouse (my keyboard home row mouse control program)<p>- Manifold System (GIS)<p>- MarkdownPad<p>- Microsoft Office 2010<p>- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012<p>- Mozilla Firefox<p>- Nullsoft Install System<p>- PaymoPlus (automatic time tracking)<p>- pdfsam (PDF split and merge)<p>- PostGIS<p>- PostgreSQL<p>- PuTTY (just for Pageant to use with git)<p>- Python (several versions)<p>- Quantum GIS<p>- Ruby<p>- Safari<p>- SciTE4AutoHotkey<p>- StorageCraft ShadowProtect<p>- Sublime Text 2<p>- Take Command<p>- TortoiseGit<p>- TortoiseHg<p>- TypeScript<p>- UEStudio<p>- UltraMon<p>- VanDyke Software SecureCRT and SecureFX<p>- VistaSwitcher (better Alt+Tab menu)<p>- VMware Workstation<p>- WebDrive<p>- XML Marker 2.1 (great editor for JSON as well as XML)<p>- Zeus for Windows (Go IDE)
I find there's very little that is typical about programmers other than in an abstract way. Compilers/editors/etc.<p>It largely depends on the domain in which they are working, and their own preferences to the tools the use.
Seems more like "A typical Jeremy Morgan Toolbox". Most of that would be superfluous for being <i>typical</i> in the general sense of a text editor, a reader of some sort, and an execution environment.
This should be renamed to "My typical programming toolbox"<p>Except for Skype (I'm moving to google talk very soon tho) I don't use any of these tools. And I highly doubt anyone on HN use any of it as well :P
- Google.com (and stackoverflow.com that's mostly reached via google search queries)<p>- Sublime Text 2<p>- Gtalk+Google Hangout<p>- Gmail<p>- Decent Operating system with decent package management and shell (for example ubuntu + apt-get + bash)<p>- Git<p>- Google Chrome<p>- Cloud<p>- HackerNews