Monthly Archive

Being an IT Slug, I find myself using a lot of different tools.  Many tools are ‘first installs’ when starting to use a new box.  Since I have been thinking about changing jobs, which means a full forklift of my toolbox to a new machine, I decided to start writing down what I have installed, sitting in the tools folder, etc.  I was about to put the list in my regular notes system, Google Docs, but decided to put them in the  blog instead. There are boat-loads of tool lists out there, so why shouldn’t I have my own?  🙂

The list is in no particular order, just as I found them in my head or on my system.  Perhaps I will organize them some day…

• Notepad++
  • http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• 7Zip
  • http://www.7-zip.org/
• bdfilehash (My tool!  (: )
  • http://bdfilehash.codeplex.com/
• fiddler
  • http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
• nmap
  • http://nmap.org/
• puTTY
  • http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
• cURL
  • http://curl.haxx.se/
• SSLScan
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslscan/
• iperf
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/
• baretail
  • http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
• sysinternals (okay, not all of them all the time…)
  • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals
• fping and/or hping
  • http://www.kwakkelflap.com/fping.html
  • http://www.hping.org
• Just Decompile (your still not paying Neil Davidson, for his, “it will always be free”, software,  are you?)
  • http://www.telerik.com/justdecompile.aspx
• SQL Compare (If the company will flip the bill)
  • http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-compare/
• SQL Delta (When SQL Compare is too expensive for the bean counters)
  • http://www.sqldelta.com/
• tortoiseSVN
  • http://tortoisesvn.net/
• tortoiseHg
  • http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/
• FileZilla
  • http://filezilla-project.org/
• LinqPad
  • http://www.linqpad.net/
• Screenpresso
  • http://www.screenpresso.com/
• Visual Studio
  • http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/
• Management Studio
  • http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver
• Chrome
  • http://www.google.com/chrome/
• Paint.net
  • http://www.getpaint.net

It just didn’t look complete without the links to the products.  Not that its hard to get these days with the efficiency of Google search.

Add a link to your toolbox in the comments!