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8 Useful Applications for Software Developers

Mark Hing · Dec 26, 2019 ·

When developing software, in addition to the environment-specific tools, it’s useful to have a set of general applications installed. I currently use the following:

  • Visual Studio Code (An Editor for developing JavaScript, Smallworld and other applications. It can be transformed into a full-blown IDE via extensions. It also has basic Git functionality built-in).
  • 7Zip (an archive/unarchive utility that’s also good for accessing .iso files).
  • Agent Ransack (a powerful and fast file search tool).
  • Notepad++ (a flexible text editor).
  • Postman (an application that allows you to easily develop and test APIs — such as HTTP/REST).
  • WinMerge (a diff/merge tool).
  • SOAPUI (a client to test web services).
  • TortoiseHg (a GUI for the Mercurial source code control system).

These industrial-strength applications are all available at no charge and can be downloaded from the Web.

Bonus: JSONView for Chrome (a Chrome browser extension that formats and validates JSON so you don’t have to read through ugly text representations of JSON data).

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Mark Hing, a Value Investing and Smallworld GIS specialist, created the Automatic Investor software and is the author of "The Pragmatic Investor" book.

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As President of Aptus Communications Inc., he builds cutting-edge FinTech applications for individual investors. He has also used his software expertise to architect, develop and implement solutions for IBM, GE, B.C. Hydro, Fortis BC, ComEd and many others.

When not taking photographs or dabbling in music and woodworking, he can be found on the ice playing hockey -- the ultimate sport of sports.

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