Tech Toolbox
These are a few of my favorite things…
Below are some of the tech tools that I find to be essential on various platforms, for Windows, Linux, and cross-platform.
Windows Software
| Notepad++ | ||
| Altova XML Spy | ||
| Putty SSH Client | ||
| WinSCP | ||
| Cygwin | Put a UNIX layer on Windows! Use all of your favorite unix command line tools. | |
| Beyond Compare | Visual comparison and multi-way merging capabilities are very powerful | |
| Screen capture | Snagit | Amazing for screenshots, presentations, documentation, and making tutorials |
| Screen Capture | Greenshot | |
| SSH | Putty | SSH Client for Windows http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html |
| SSH | WinSCP | File transfer via SFTP / SCP http://winscp.net/eng/download.php |
| Virtual Machine | VirtualBox | |
Linux Software
| Software | Description |
| ssh | |
| sshfs | |
| vi | |
| gedit | |
| Grep | |
| Distributions |
Cross-platform
| Software | Description |
| Eclipse IDE | Preferred IDE for Java development |
| Tomcat | |
| Pentaho Data Integration (PDI / Kettle) | Open Source, Commercially-supported Data Integration and ETL tool |
| Skype | Video/Audio conferencing |
| Google Hangout | Video/Audio conferencing |
| Pinboard.in | |
| KeePass2 | Password-Encrypted, User Account and Password database |