Introduce several tools and utilities for programming
The best and the de-facto.
The true and tested. Over 30 years in active development. A pleasure to use after you learn how!
You can take a look at my ever growing and changing _vimrc if you want. That file will always contain imaps for DocBook XML. I have also made two color templates (also changing from time to time) called stamina and earthling.
The best for Java
The best for PHP
The best for designing WPF with XAML
The best editor for XML, hands down
Quick and easy programmers notepad. This site is written in it.
A genious package for LAMP development on Windows
Get as many as you can, minimum is Chrome and Firefox with Firebug
Searches file names like a champ. Wondering if you've got multiple versions of ThatAnnoying.dll? Just search for it and see!
A great tool if you do code reviews on code with poor or no style, or if you simply want to convert the style on a codebase.
Here is my favorite configuration: -s2 -a -C -S -K -N -L -w -f -p -H -x -j -J -O -c -k3 -Z -z2
For VIM users, here is a map for triggering astyle on the current file:
map ,asa :! astyle -s2 -a -C -S -K -N -L -w -f -p -H -x -j -J -O -c -k3 -Z -z2 %
For maintaining versions and revisions of your code base
The old
The new
May be THE best tool while developing
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