![]() ![]() SlickRun (free) – This powerful application launcher is one of the first GUI programs I ever built, and it’s now old enough to drink. (I still play with Delphi XE4 once in a while to remind myself how bad things could have gotten.) Visual Studio 2013 (commercial) – While I gripe about Visual Studio a fair bit, I can’t imagine using anything else. Internet Explorer (free) – I use Internet Explorer because it works well with most of the sites I visit, it’s familiar (muscle memory built over a decade), and it supports TPLs, making for a more pleasant browsing experience. ![]() I’m less pleased with Chrome than I hoped to be (their add-ons site is a cesspool of bugs and malware, just like IE’s) but the browser itself is great, and it’s clear that most web developers are building in Chrome first and only later testing in everything else. After years of suffering daily crashes in Internet Explorer (known to the IE team, but unfixed), I got tired of waiting for relief. Current boot count: 13,689.Ĭhrome (free) – I recently changed my default browser to Chrome on most of my computers. What I’m usingįiddler (free) – For someone who doesn’t really build or test web applications for a living, I still find myriad uses for Fiddler, and I’m always adding more. In some cases, I’ve simply written my own software (usually uglier and with fewer features) because I’m not willing to compromise on this principle. There’s a lot of great software out there that’s ruined by side-effects, including security problems, performance problems, advertising, and anything else that makes my computer worse for having it installed. ![]() The #1 criteria for any software I use is first, do no harm. ![]()
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