Coders/Programmers - What's in your toolbox?

[Rob N]

Looking to compile a list and to try the tools/sites/extensions/programs/social media/blogs that are essential to you, as a coder/programmer.

Here are one or two I have come across so far and examples:

Applications - Notepad++, Winmerge
Chrome/Firefox Extensions - What Font, Eye Dropper
Learning Resources - Lynda.com, Udemy, CodeSchool
Forums - warriorforum/programming
Websites/Blogs - Mashable

Will hopefully be a good resource for new tools to try for coders and newbies alike.

Please list your favourites

 

[fisicx]

Forums - warriorforum/programming

Really?

Try these instead:
http://stackexchange.com/
http://www.dreamincode.net/

 

[Squantrill]

Vim
Gcc
Python

Kalidascope
Cornerstone (Svn)

Web browser


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[Alan]

Atom

 

[Paul Murray]

Sublime text
MAMP
This Chrome extension (great for checking media queries)
Every browser, phone and OS I can get my hands on for testing

That's all I need for basic HTML, PHP, JS and CSS sites. For the more technical stuff I let my dev guys worry about that.

 

[Cameron Ziafat]

Hmm...

For design we use photoshop - I'm thinking about using invision for apps as well.
The devs use Sublime / PHPStorm, MAMP, Bitbucket, Tower & Sequel Pro.
I use Aha.io, JIRA and Harvest to manage our projects. Slack for team communication.
For testing my favorite Chrome plugin is EditThisCookie.

 

[DesignForge]

NetBeans - IDE (I use it for PHP but there are versions for other languages too)
Git - for version control
Filezilla - for (S)FTP
WinSCP - for (S)FTP
Putty - for SSH access
Navicat - GUI for database management (I use it for MySQL but there are other versions too)
MySQL Workbench - for database schema creation
Notepad++ - for lightweight coding


Chrome Extensions:
- SEOQuake
- Web Developer
- YSlow
- User Agent Switcher
- Responsive Web Design Tester

 

[FSIvan]

My day job is as an Android developer so for that I use the Androi Studio ide.
All of the apps I make connect to some sort of web service and I find Postman -> https://www.getpostman.com/ to be an invaluable tool for testing how different endpoints respond. It's available as a standalone desktop app as well as a Chrome plugin. You can also create collections within the app and sync/share which is useful when working with others.

I play about with web development in the evenings/weekends and mostly use Sublime text for that although I've yet to get to grips with its full potential and really learn how to make it work for me.

As for online resources, well I'm not ashamed to say that I owe my career to Stackoverflow and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

 

[Formations Factory]

Sites

• Stack Overflow
• Hacker News

IDEs / editors:

• WebStorm
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Atom (quite recently replaced Sublime)

Things that make my life easier:

• JSBeautifier
• Pastebin
• Text Mechanic
• Postman
• Invisio

Comms:

• Slack

 

[antropy]

Interesting thread

Sites

• Google

IDEs

• Kate

Other Software

• Firefox (with Firebug, Web Dev Toolbar)
• Chrome
• WHM/cPanel

 

[Formations Factory]

Haha Google - that pretty much sums up how development done these days.

"GDD" - Google Driven Development.

Interesting thread

Sites

• Google

IDEs

• Kate

Other Software

• Firefox (with Firebug, Web Dev Toolbar)
• Chrome
• WHM/cPanel

 

[antropy]

Haha Google - that pretty much sums up how development done these days.

Certainly does! I won't answer technical questions from any other developers here unless they've Googled the error message first!

 

[Formations Factory]

Fair enough! At the end of the day, they should really be asking technical questions on Stack Overflow

 

[ryedale]

PHP Designer for coding
Firefox /Firebug for development testing
Filezilla for ftp
Photoshop / Illustrator for graphics
Product EEV for project management
Balsamiq for mock ups

 

[Martin Gallagher]

OS: Linux preferred (Mac for day job)
Google Go / Golang, Rust, C/C++, HTML etc: Sublime Text
PHP: PHPStorm, NetBeans, ST
Java: NetBeans
Source control: open source contributions on GitHub, BitBucket for private projects and job
DB: PostgreSQL (pgAdmin), MySQL (MySQL WB), Cassandra cqlsh
GFX: Inkscape, Gimp
Learning: normally Google Groups #golang-nuts #golang-dev - investigating code on GitHub etc.
News: HN, reddit/r/programming /r/golang/ /r/rust (so on)

 

[MarcusCornelius]

It depends on what programmer do. For example, I do native development for iOS, Mac OS X and Android and my main tools are XCode IDE and Android Studio. The main source of information is Stack Overflow but Google sometimes refers to other sites with answers to my programming questions.