(Updated as I go)
Books and websites I reference repeatedly (some links via Safari Tech Books Online):
- Perldoc online
- HTML Entities list
- Perl Best Practices
- Perl Cookbook (ua)
- Windows PowerShell in Action
- Windows PowerShell Cookbook
Scott Hanselman has a great list of useful software tools. He’s a developer, so some of the tools are specific to supporting application development and programming. But a large proportion of the tools he mentions are generally useful.
This is the list of tools I find myself installing soon after a refreshing of my system’s OS.
| Microsoft Office | What can I say |
| keepass | my password safe; ports for Windows Mobile, CrackBerry, and more. I sync my password db to my mobile device, and I always have my passwords with me. Lots of plug-ins, though I haven’t played with them (yet). |
| VIM | Vi IMproved; it’s the text editor I decided to learn |
| Paint.NET | I like Adobe Photoshop Elements, but this is almost as good. I keep meaning to look into Gimp, but only have so many cycles. |
| Perl (ActivePerl) | The Perl distro I use. I did compile Perl from source once, just to say I had. Not something I want to do routinely, though. |
| FileZilla | GUI sftp client |
| Putty | De Facto standard for ssh/scp/sftp |
| Windows Live suite | I’m using Live Writer quite heavily for my blogs. |
| slickrun ( I use the beta) | my favorite launcher; executor is close |
| Sysinternals Tools | Process Explorer, tcpview, accessenum, etc. |
Some more esoteric tools, just right for the job:
| RegEx Coach | nice tool for working out regular expressions |
| DumpSec/DumpACL | save acls/dacls to a file |
| WinDirStat | Nice visual display of directory and file sizes. |
| WinMerge | Open Source tool for file and directory comparisons and merging. |
| File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) | compute MD5 or SHA-1 cryptographic hash values. |