4 posts tagged “geekery”
Netscape development to cease.
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/5192
Most of you will probably not care but as a geek who fell in love with the internet during its days of text based browsers before Netscape was conceived and then became one of the most used browsers before M$ underhandedly killed it, this is pretty sad.
As a follow up to my previous post about tools for .NET devs, here's another list of not-so-.NET-dev-related apps I find essential to be installed on any machine that I work on. :)
Firefox - no explanation needed here
Unlocker - kills locked processes, folders etc. Similar to MS's process explorer
SysInternals- Process explorer is part of this bundle from MS, come with other nifty tools like filemon and ps* commands
TextPad - Some folks like Notepad++, which I do enjoy but I'm kinda stuck on TextPad for some reason
Cygwin - Linux-like emulator. Good for posix work.
SQLScripter - Sweet little open source tool that does data export and bulk scripts for SQL Server
ngrep - great network sniffer that works like your good old grep. it's a useful tool if you're attempting to debug any sort of network protocal interaction
AVG antivirus - free and useful AV that isn't too annoying. Either that it's some version of Norton
Spybot search & destroy - spyware tool
Paint.NET - screw photoshop
Ok, carry on now :)
Your programmer personality type is:
DHTC
You're a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.
You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.
You work best in a Team.
A good group is better than the sum of it's parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.
You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.
phew. validation! ;)
