Tools

RSS - Really Simple Syndication. It's been a staple of my learning since the early 2000s, even before Google Reader. I was an early user of RSS Bandit before I moved to Google Reader. After Google Reader was shut down, I moved to Feedly and then, recently, to Newsblur. For most of the last 10 years, I've been a user of Reeder. I love RSS.

If your career is anything like mine, you've dealt with a wide array of various code bases across multiple technologies. Some web, some client, etc. With varying technologies, the tools change, the languages change, everything changes. A few things have remained relatively constant, though, such as a command line.

A review of NDepend

ZoomIt, a tool from Sysinternals that lets you zoom in a particular part of your screen.

Hawkeye, which lets you attach to any running .NET process and inspect .NET controls.

WinSnap: a nice Windows screenshot tool