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copied!<p>Let me be general [then specific]:</p> <ol> <li>Your IDE of choice [<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Express/" rel="noreferrer">VS 2008</a> here]</li> <li>Your debugger [It is usually part of your IDE, but sometimes <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx" rel="noreferrer">WinDbg</a> is needed]</li> <li>Its plugins for refactoring and source control [<a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/" rel="noreferrer">Resharper 4+</a> and <a href="http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/" rel="noreferrer">Ankh SVN 2+</a>]</li> <li>Your OS's addons for source control [<a href="http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/" rel="noreferrer">Tortoise SVN</a>]</li> <li>A better Diff and Merge Tool to plug into the above SCM tools [<a href="http://winmerge.org/" rel="noreferrer">WinMerge</a>]</li> <li>A fast loading text editor for when your IDE is too much [<a href="http://www.vim.org/" rel="noreferrer">vim</a>, <a href="http://notepad-plus.sf.net/" rel="noreferrer">Notepad++</a>]</li> <li>If you're doing web development, get tools for that [<a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/" rel="noreferrer">Firefox 3</a> with Add-ons: <a href="http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/" rel="noreferrer">Web Developer</a>, <a href="http://getfirebug.com/" rel="noreferrer">Firebug</a>, <a href="http://tamperdata.mozdev.org" rel="noreferrer">TamperData</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/poster-extension/" rel="noreferrer">Poster</a>, <a href="http://www.janodvarko.cz/firecookie" rel="noreferrer">Firecookie</a>, <a href="http://fireftp.mozdev.org/" rel="noreferrer">FireFTP</a>, <a href="http://www.firephp.org/" rel="noreferrer">FirePHP</a>, <a href="http://xrefresh.com/rainbow" rel="noreferrer">Rainbow</a> for Firebug, <a href="http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/" rel="noreferrer">ReloadEvery</a>, <a href="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/" rel="noreferrer">Selenium IDE</a>]</li> <li>Requisite tools for working with text [<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/textutils/textutils.html" rel="noreferrer">GNU TextUtils</a>, via <a href="http://cygwin.org/" rel="noreferrer">cygwin</a> or <a href="http://gnuwin32.sf.net" rel="noreferrer">gnuwin32.sf.net</a>]</li> <li>Scripting tools [<a href="http://www.perl.org/" rel="noreferrer">Perl</a>, <a href="http://python.org/" rel="noreferrer">Python</a>, <a href="http://www.zsh.org/" rel="noreferrer">zsh</a>, all those <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/" rel="noreferrer">GNU base packages</a> in cygwin]</li> <li>A Regular Expression testing tool for when your eyes hurt [<a href="http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm" rel="noreferrer">Expresso</a>, <a href="http://www.regexbuddy.com/" rel="noreferrer">RegexBuddy</a>]</li> </ol> <p>For Java I swap out 1 and 3 with <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/" rel="noreferrer">Eclipse</a>, and its plugins for <a href="http://maven.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer">Maven</a> and <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/" rel="noreferrer">SVN</a>, I haven't found a refactoring plug in... you'd think I'd use <a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/" rel="noreferrer">IntelliJ IDEA</a> but I never started using it.</p>

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