Dev tools worth buying for myself?
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@Jaloopa said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@Vaire said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Copy Path To Clipboard
Like shift+right click, copy as path?
@Vaire said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Extends your taskbar to both screens. MOVES the icon for the applications running, to whichever screen the application is ACTUALLY on
Like Windows 8+?
Oh, I can tell you're trying to be cute. That's fun.
I don't feel like rising to the bait. But to answer your unspoken question, we are still on Win7 at work, and I got the Copy Path To Clipboard when XP reigned supreme
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@Vaire said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Oh, I can tell you're trying to be cute. That's fun.
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@BaconBits said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
I've got the Android Hyper-V installed, but it errors when it starts. Apparently the old VMWare
Hyper-V and VMware are incompatible.
In an admin command window:
To use Hyper-V: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
To use VMware: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
then reboot.
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@Vaire said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@Jaloopa said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@Vaire said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Copy Path To Clipboard
Like shift+right click, copy as path?
@Vaire said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Extends your taskbar to both screens. MOVES the icon for the applications running, to whichever screen the application is ACTUALLY on
Like Windows 8+?
Oh, I can tell you're trying to be cute. That's fun.
I don't feel like rising to the bait. But to answer your unspoken question, we are still on Win7 at work, and I got the Copy Path To Clipboard when XP reigned supremeThat used to be a Power Toy: "Send To X"
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@swayde said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
It still sucks for you? I currently have no problems, they disappeared a while ago. In hindsight that may be that I've been conditioned to scroll differently
First time I tried mobile. Safari. Fuck mobile. Fuck it hard. I don't need to be "retrained" how to scroll.
I hate mobile. Hate typing on it, reading on it, scrolling on it, navigating on it. Fuck it.
AND WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS THE PREVIEW WINDOW IS SHOWING BUT UNDERNEATH NOT SIDE-BY-SIDE AND THERE'S NO WAY TO DISMISS IT FUCK!
Had to hard refresh, since "submit" also didn't work. ajaxonepageappsreinventthewheel
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Oh yeah, if you are an idiot, or your IT departments are idiots-- and have upgraded you to Win8 or above-- Classic Shell to restore a sane start menu.
Especially if those idiots also upgraded to SERVER OS with Metro Crayon interface.
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@Lorne-Kates Lorne Kates wants a pause button on his timepod.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Classic Shell to restore a sane start menu.
And then, if you're smart, you go right on to Win10 and get the improved Start menu. Which was recently improved even more.
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@FrostCat said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Classic Shell to restore a sane start menu.
And then, if you're smart, you go right on to Win10 and get the improved Start menu. Which was recently improved even more.
Can I type WIN - iis - enter and get iis manager?
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@blakeyrat said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@Lorne-Kates Lorne Kates wants a pause button on his timepod.
Lorne Kates doesn't want a halfbaked touch-screen tablet interface on a server.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Can I type WIN - iis - enter and get iis manager?
Of course. It's still the Start menu, it's just better.
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@FrostCat So by "better" you mean flat-as-shit design plus tattles on me to Bing? And yay, I can add "IIS" to my music playlist.
Fuck that.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@FrostCat So by "better" you mean flat-as-shit design plus tattles on me to Bing? And yay, I can add "IIS" to my music playlist.
Fuck that.
Which you can turn off (a little large - 250% screen clip)
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@dcon said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Which you can turn off (a little large - 250% screen clip)
Which is on by default.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
So by "better" you mean flat-as-shit design plus tattles on me to Bing?
Nope--Cortana's turned off.
@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
And yay, I can add "IIS" to my music playlist.
Are you going to wrestle @boomzilla for a ? You can do a web search instead of a local programs search, is all that means. Which you could do before, but it didn't separate different kinds of results out. The row of icons on the top let you narrow the search down, to just email, pictures, etc.
@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
flat-as-shit design
. I mean, I'm not fond of it myself, but I've got better things to do with my time than maintain an incandescent rage about this.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Which is on by default.
No. It asks you whether you want to turn it on or off, the first time you use it.
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@FrostCat said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Are you going to wrestle @boomzilla for a ?
for everybody! You're all suckers.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Can I type WIN - iis - enter and get iis manager?
You can on 8 and 10
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@blakeyrat said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@Lorne-Kates Lorne Kates wants a pause button on his timepod.
I want one too.
Edit: actually, I want 10's start menu with 95/98's window title bars and XP's scrollbars and buttons.
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@Zecc Windows Generations?
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I used to have a personal license for ViEmu for VisualStudio before VsVim existed. Most other paid-for software is stuff that I use myself primarily, and just occasionally for work (Sketchbook being one example).
At my last work-place I used my own laptop frequently for stuff like presentations(*), so I ended getting my own license of Powerpoint, for the times when Beamer was overkill.
I tend to bring my own keyboard, mostly because I learned touch typing with a non-english layout, CBA to relearn what's basically muscle memory, and in most places they can only get you english and local-language keyboards. This also avoids cheap-ass places that give you a disgusting old keyboard that's been through N other employees.
(*) Apple-only place. Screw keynote. And MacOS. And the heavy huge-ass Apple laptops that this place had for this kind of occasions.
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@aliceif said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
This is still pretty dang cool.
It's a freaking amazing tool. I can't fathom how a .NET developer could live without it.
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@kt_ said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
It's a freaking amazing tool. I can't fathom how a .NET developer could live without it.
By installing vs2015 and using C# Interactive?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@FrostCat said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@Lorne-Kates said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
Classic Shell to restore a sane start menu.
And then, if you're smart, you go right on to Win10 and get the improved Start menu. Which was recently improved even more.
Can I type WIN - iis - enter and get iis manager?
Yep.
Yeah that is one really annoying about the 8 (?) and Server 2012 search - it separates out "Settings", " Apps", and "Files"
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If you are doing .NET Resharper. A lot of the more obvious features are part of VS2015 community edition, but the JS intellisense is worth it if you do ASP.NET.
If you work with C# / Java or anything else that is compiled it is worth investing in an SSD. On larger projects the compile times are significantly decreased.
TBH These days I seem to get away with just sublime text, git, kdiff3 and browser.
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@lucas1 said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
If you work with C# / Java or anything else that is compiled it is worth investing in an SSD. On larger projects the compile times are significantly decreased.
It's really worth having an SSD. Even ignoring the compile times (which shouldn't be too long for C# or Java; their compilers will chew through thousands of classes a second no problem) it's thoroughly awesome to have systems that fast.
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@dcon said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@BaconBits said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
I've got the Android Hyper-V installed, but it errors when it starts. Apparently the old VMWare
Hyper-V and VMware are incompatible.
In an admin command window:
To use Hyper-V: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
To use VMware: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
then reboot.Yes, I tried that. Or, well, I've already got boot settings that boot with that setting off or on auto. I think I used this blog. It didn't change anything. I'm just guessing that the error is caused by VMWare; I Googled the error I got from the log, tried this with no luck, then the next sane recommendation was ripping everything out and starting over. I should anyways because I so rarely use VMWare Workstation anymore. The log for Visual Studio for Android wasn't particularly helpful.
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Oh, I forgot this one. Not really a dev tool, and it's free, but I use it a ton and really miss it when it's gone.
Oh, also GrepWin
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Scott Hanselman said that compiles on a rebuild project were much shorter. But yes everything works better with an SSD.
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@rad131304 said in Dev tools worth buying for myself?:
@xaade If you're a USian, you can claim the purchase on your taxes as an unreimbursed expense ... assuming you itemize.
What all can be itemized there? If I rebuild my computer and use it to develop code (or hook my work laptop to it to work from home), can I deduct it? What about books for keeping up to date/learn new skills?