Monday, October 10, 2011

Favorite Free Development Utilities

Here is a list of software that I've found helpful for various development tasks. Best of all, they are all free.

Text Editor: Notepad++ - if you are still using Window's default Notepad or Wordpad, you have got to get this. Text formatting and tabbed documents are two of the many features.

File Compare: ExamDiff - does a better job than WinMerge when comparing two files.

Folder Compare: WinMerge - good for comparing folder tree structure, seems to generate a lot of false hits when just comparing two files.

Screen Capture: PrintScreen by Gadwin - drag a rectangle around anything on your screen, press enter and it's on your clipboard

Quick image editing: Paint.NET - especially good if you are relying on Window's default Paint.

Load Testing: JMeter - basic web load testing

Web Service Testing: soapUI - create test XML, send it to a SOAP web service, see the XML response

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