Introduction
Even Chris created his article of Useful Reference Books ages ago I just bumped into it, and after adding my bit I thought to do something similar in the field of development tools.
So feel free and add tools you found useful in your career - and check back to see what others are using.
No spam, no advertising, no commercial stuff. Feel free to add closed-source Tools, as long as they are available for free.
Contents
- Code Editors
- IDEs
- Web Servers
- Version Control
- Real Time Application Info
- .Net (Sub) Frameworks
- JavaScript Frameworks
- Diff / Merge
- Regular Expressions
- Diagramming Tools
- Documenting
- Testing
- Online Playgrounds
- LINQ Tools
- Front-end Frameworks
- Disassemblers / decompilers / inspectors
- XAML / WPF
- SQL databases
- NOSQL databases
- Database related tools
- Continuous build process / Build tools
- Diagnostics
- Continuous Integration
Code Editors
Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Eclipse Primarily for Java
- NetBeans Primarily for Java. Can also be used for PHP, C/C++, and HTML5
- Android Developer Tools, Windows 64bit
- Android Developer Tools, Windows 32bit
- Android Developer Tools, Mac OS 64bit
- Android Developer Tools, Linux 64bit
- Visual Studio for .NET Desktop/Web/Mobile Development
- EmEditor
- SharpDevelop
- MonoDevelop
- Android Studio
- Bluefish Editor
Web Servers
Version Control
Real Time Application Info
.NET (Sub) Frameworks
JavaScript Frameworks
- jQuery
- AngularJS
- knockoutJS
- three.js (library for creating 3D graphics)
Diff/Merge
- Araxis Merge
- Beyond Compare
- Wimerge
- DiffUtils (useful for scripting diff; combine with this script to get HTML output)
Regular Expressions
Diagramming Tools
Documenting
Testing
Online Playgrounds
LINQ Tools
Front-end Frameworks
Disassemblers / decompilers / inspectors
XAML / WPF
SQL databases
- MariaDB
- MySQL
- Firebird
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server Express Edition
- Oracle Database Express Edition 11g Release 2
NOSQL databases
General
Document store
Database related tools
- Toad for SQL Server Freeware
- Toad for Oracle Freeware
- Toad for MySQL Freeware
- Toad for Sybase Freeware
- More Toad...
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
- SQLTools for Oracle