He sounds interested to me. To be fair nobody needs 8-10 tools for regexes alone. Except maybe Jeffrey Friedl. Recommending one or two would be plenty.
Agreed, at some point with some categories I admit in the post that I'm just collecting and reviewing tools, RegEx ones are a good example, for fun. Other times two or three tools exist because there is a specific gap in one filled by another.
It's a nice, comprehensive list. If you (or anyone else) feels inclined it'd be nice to have a heavily biased list of tools that in your opinion are the cream of the crop. A honed version of this bigger list.
If you're a windows dev, if you've not got much time just scan through and look at the green items, the new additions.
It's nice, for example, to see Scott mention 7zip and curl, which I now use on windows too. It kinda makes you feel a little less of a traitor. Bins looks great and I also forgot about Console2 too, stupid cmd window not resizing.
>all these gewgaws. There's work to be done, don't get too wrapped up in your tools.
poor Windows people need all these exactly to get work done. (my current job is a windows shop, any simple *nix operation like find/grep/diff and the likes is an epic story scrum style (of course we have that too). Time to make a Xmas gift to myself and move back to a shop where Linux is allowed (that includes no "must-use" Outlook :)
