I use this #2

Table of content

• Hardware
• Software
  • The Chocolatey Stuff
  • No Chocolatey

I promised that there would be another post about my windows environment. I keep my word, so here you go.

Hardware ¶

This time I am keeping this part a little shorter. It’s a Core i7 Notebook from Fujitsu with 6 Gigs of RAM and a 128GB SDD. Not very beautiful, but it does the job.

Software ¶

The Chocolatey Stuff ¶

I blogged earlier about chocolatey it is a package manager for windows that works fairly well and a great bunch of the tools I use are available as chocolatey package.

Utilities ¶

• Sysinternals
• Console2 Finally a command-line for windows that doesn’t suck (as much as the built-in). You can also integrate powershell, ipython and pycmd into it.
• WinDirStat Gives you a nice overview on what is taking up your disk space.
• grepWin grep with a GUI.
• LockHunter If something locks some file so you can’t delete it, LockHunter will tell you which application claims the lock.
• 7Zip
• VirtualCloneDrive It is a miracle that Windows can’t mount a ISO file on its own.
• FileZilla
• PuTTY
• UltraMon
• RDCMan - to manage lots of RDP connections.
• Papercut A very lightweight SMTP Server that you can run on your dev machine. (There is also smtp4dev - I am not sure which one is better).

Big Stuff ¶

• SharedView or join.me, TeamViewer, NetViewer, whatever it is.
• VLC
• VirtualBox

Version Control ¶

• msysgit
• GitExtensions
• TortoiseGit

Development Stuff ¶

• Python
• Vim
• Exuberant Ctags
• LINQPad Probably the best solution around (until the Roslyn REPL is finally done) to get an interactive C# experience.
• ILSpy .NET assembly decompiler.
• AutoIT I hardly use it, but sometimes it is useful to automate some GUI stuff.
• Fiddler Debugging HTTP Requests.

No Chocolatey ¶

Development Tools ¶

• Visual Studio 2010 including various plug-ins (VsVim being the most important). Even if you don’t particularly like Microsoft, you have to admit that Visual Studio is a splendid IDE.
• IPython A system without IPython feels kind of crippled to me.
• SQL Management Studio with SqlComplete
• SoapUI To quickly test a webservice. Although lately I have been using python with suds as I found it more convenient.
• Eclipse with Infor BusinessStudio. For Infor ERP LN webservice development. Everything about it is serious and highly confidential (thats at least how Infor thinks about it) so I am not allowed to write about it in more detail.

The obvious ¶

• MS-Office including Outlook
• Firefox including Pentadactyl
• IE9

I almost forgot ¶

• Everything Indexes your harddrive, and does so a lot faster than the built-in search service.
• Workrave It reminds me to take regular breaks.