Tools

Ok, so everyone has their favourite tools right?.. You know when you get a new machine and there''s that nice long list of tools you install on it with all the latest versions. Well this is my lists. Some are development tools, others just general utility tools that make general day to day working easier. I''m sure many of you will have differing experiences and additions to the list but this is my list, making my day to day working a little easier. Most are open source / free utilities but a few are not free but usually worth the premium.

General

• Cmder - Decent Terminal on windows.
• Windows Terminal
• Paint .Net - A free paint and photo editing tool.
• 7Zip - 7Zip for compressing and decompressing archeives.
• Process Explorer - A better Task Manager.
• f.lux - F.lux is a utility to remove blues from your screen after sunset.

Source Control

• Git - Git version control system.
• Tortoise Git - Port of tortoise svn for git.

Automation and Platform tools

• PowerShell Core
• PSake
• Chocolatey - Package manager for Windows
• SonarQube - Static code analysis tool.
• Docker
• Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Ansible

.Net development

• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio
• ReSharper - Brings Visual Studio to life.
• SonarScanner for MSBuild - Publish .net projects to SonarQube.
• dotCover
• dotPeak

Monitoring

• ElasticSearch
• Kibana
• Log Stash
• Beats