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 |