Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List

Scott Hanselman presents his list of Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for 2005

There are some utils in his list that I will start using right away. I plan on going through this list in more detail and add some of these to my utils directory.

Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here’s mine. Each has a distinct purpose, and I probably touch each at least a few times a week. For me, util means utilitarian and it means don’t clutter my tray. If it saves me time, and seamlessly integrates with my life, it’s the bomb.

He has sorted his list into the following categories:

• The Big Ten Life and Work-Changing Utilities
• A Developer’s Life
• The Angle Bracket Tax (XML/HTML Stuff)
• Regular Expressions
• Stuff I Just Dig
• Low-Level Utilities
• Websites and Bookmarklets (that change the way you work)
• Smart People and their Pages for Utils They Wrote
• Browser Add-Ins
• Things Windows Forgot
• Ultimate Registry Tweaks
• Windows Explorer Integration (and other Integrity things)
• Continuous Integration
• TabletPC Indispensables
• ASP.NET Must Haves
• Visual Studio.NET Add-Ins

Go check out the whole list