Agile
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE - great, short video on Agile product ownership
- https://glenngillen.com/thoughts/quickstart-guide-to-agile - excellent opinion article on agile software development
- https://wheelofnames.com/ - the wheel of names!
- https://retrotool.io/ - run remote retros
Architecture
- NetArchTest - use this to enforce architectural patterns in your code
- Azure Architecture Icons - you can download icon sets here to create Azure architecture diagrams
Artificial Intelligence
- There’s an AI For That
- Gamma - create beautiful presentations
- Tripnotes - this isn’t working yet, but it’s a great idea! Notes on where to go when visiting a country/city….
- Microsoft Designer - use AI to generate images and logos
- CustomGPT.ai - create custom GPT with your own business content
- Replicate - provides access to trained AI models via API
- Napkin - generate visuals from text
- Mistral - open-weight LLMs, as well as more sophisticated models via API (multiple clients available)
Careers
Development Tools
- Fiddler - web debugging proxy tool, useful for testing APIs
- ILSpy - open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler
- Prefix - code profiler by Stackify
- MiniProfiler - free profiler tool for .NET, Ruby, Go, and Node.js
- jsonformatter.org - online JSON formatter
- PHPrex - online visual regex tester
- Postman - the ultimate API development platform
.NET Libraries
- HangFire - background processing in .NET
- Humanizer - library for turning values into human-readable strings
- Polly - resilience and transient-fault-handling library, including Retry, Rate Limits, etc
- Quartz.NET - scheduler library
- MiniProfiler - a free, very useful profiling tool for .NET and .NET Core
Editors
- Notepad++ - best text editor by far…and it’s free
- Visual Studio Code - best code editor by far…and it’s free
Financial
Hardware
- PCPartPicker - use this site to build your PC from scratch
Learning
- freecodecamp.org - free online courses and certification
jQuery
- Reveal - very nice modal dialog implementation
MongoDb
- Robo 3T - free, open source GUI for MongoDB
Multimedia
- http://www.favicon.cc/ - create your own icons
- PNGOUT – this is a FREE tool that reduces the size of PNG files by 5 – 30%. Running this on all images for presentations, blog posts and web sites is a pretty good idea!
- Paint.NET - free image editing software
- MediaInfo - inspect video/audio media info
- Greenshot - screen capture with easy obfuscation, highlighting and editing
- Draw.io - free diagrams/charts desktop tool
- https://excalidraw.com/ - an amazing scratch tool that can turn words into charts
Podcasts
- Hanselminutes - Scott Hanselman’s podcast
- Rework - a great podcast by 37Signals
- What the Dev?
- Merge Conflict
Security
- https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/password-guidance-simplifying-your-approach - don’t take my word for it: password guidance from the NCSC
- Google - good old Google can be used to query sites looking for login information
- Wayback Machine - can be used to look at previous versions of your site to see what files are changing, and can be used nefariously to try exploit old code
- Shodan - can be used to search and reveal sensitive certificate information about your domain
- Web Check - can be used to pull security information about your sites
- DNS Dumpster - can be used to get a list of host records for a particular domain
- Dehashed - public breaches, search e.g. domain:iua.co.za
- ’;–have i been pwned? - free tool for monitoring your email addresses appearing in data breaches
- BuiltWith - analyse technology profile of a site
- Wappalyzer - browser extension technology profiler for a web site
- Netcraft - browser extension that will analyze the tech stack and also warns users of potential attacks
- OWASP Dependency-Check - free dependency checker
- OWASP Secure Coding Practices - technology-agnostic list of things to look out for!
Source Control
- Freecodecamp Git Cheat Sheet
- Git Extensions - best Git source control UI (second to the command line)
Technical Blogs
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/AyendeRahien
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/JonSkeetCodingBlog
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/OdeToCode
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/RickStrahl
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/wekeroad/EeKc
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/TroyHunt
- http://feeds.haacked.com/haacked
- https://samwho.dev/blog/
Utilities for Windows
- ConsoleZ - tabbed consoles for those who like to DOS
- Teracopy – I love this tool. It also queues copying requests so you don’t end up with a hard drive going back and forth like a scratch record.
- 7-Zip - the king of zipping tools
- Agent Ransack - free file search tool
- mRemoteNG - tabbed interface for remote connections
- TreeSize Free - free disk space manager
Virtualisation Tools
- Virtual Box - free virtualization
- Windows Virtual Machines