Links

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

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

.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

Development Tools

• Fiddler - web debugging proxy tool, useful for testing APIs
• ILSpy - open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler
• Prefix - code profiler by Stackify

Editors

• Notepad++ - best text editor by far…and it’s free
• Visual Studio Code - best code editor by far…and it’s free
• https://jsonformatter.org/ - online JSON formatter

Hardware

• PCPartPicker - use this site to build your PC from scratch

jQuery

• Reveal - very nice modal dialog implementation

Management

• The Engineering Manager

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

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

Source Control

• 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

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