Tools/Sites

SearchMe - Still in beta and I was able to get an account easily. Check out the screenshot of their search results Not only are the results categorized but I loved the visual search results that don’t require me to open the page in another window to further filter interesting results.

Here are some of the tools that I currently have installed on my dev machine. Most of them are freeware or have free versions available. IDEs Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 - The essential IDE for any professional windows developer, I only have C# and C++ installed btw to keep resource usage to a minimum.

After re-reading Essential COM and ATL internals yet again, I decided to use a knowledge management tool to store all the little pieces of information that’ll help me remember and keep track of all this information easily.

Patrick has released version 2.0 of his absolutely cool code analyzer NDepend .The VisualNDepend tool is looking slick and Code Query Lanaguage looks damn interesting. Also be sure to take a look at the metrics that are generated by NDepend, very nice.

I usually connect to two networks, one at home and one at work, both networks have different static IP addresses etc. thus switching between then was a pain. Some research showed that I can use netsh command line utility to quickly configure network settings for various networks.