My name is Edward Tanguay. I'm an American software and web developer living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Tools
 | Reliability and Performance Monitor If you have Vista then you have the Reliability and Performance Monitor which, once you use it, you will never use Task Manager again. Try it out.  |
| Says it is "Autofac is a fresh approach to IoC in .NET that fits well with C# 3.0", can't get enough of these when learning IoC/DI. |
| Says it is "lightning fast dependency injection for .NET", can't get enough of these when learning IoC/DI. |
| This is all done in HTML/Javascript, amazing actually, I tried it out for 5 minutes and it could be useful if you are designing SQLite databases, check it out, free. Try online demo. |
| Browse through, look at demos, see what is available, get ideas before you build your own. |
| Here is a demo of the kind of screencasts you can make the the above mentioned tools  |
| Free, has intellisense, build on WPF, check it out, no code-behind those, for people who use (don't have) blend. |
| Tab Hunter Addon for Firefox Every since I've been on Twitter I tend to have about 100 Firefox tabs open and loose the overview of where things are, the TabHunter addon helps you find things fast.  |
| Quite extensive. |
| Very simple interface to create hotkeys that automatically type out text (e.g. for signatures or XML, HTML, BBCODE tags), you can put the cursor in the middle of your text nice, but seems to be no way to turn off the sound when text is entered (!), useful though. |
| Allows you to create, design or administrate SQLite database files, haven't tried yet. |
| Allows you to create, design or administrate SQLite database files, haven't tried yet. |
| Many more than when I checked in early 2008 last. |
| I use WinMerge to compare whole PHP websites to see what has changed between them, easy and quick.  |
| Nice way to have a menu on the left of the page hidden and then click a link and it slides in. |
| Follow the two-step instructions: download, copy files in, awesome designs for your ASP.NET sites. |
| Classy way to show old-style pictures that have a white frame. |
| Haven't tried it, Scott Hanselman said it was a "joy to use". Free. |
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| Image on left in demo works well, one one right with click is skippy. |
| A photoviewer that makes the pictures pop out but also with next and previous, nice. |
| Would be very useful in forms, e.g. telephone numbers. |
| Article describing why you shouldn't host your own jquery but instead just reference the jquery on Google's servers, speeds things up, I just use the latter simple example, works well. UNCOMFIRMED CAVEAT: I've heard that people who have done this on their personal sites could not access these sites from within their companies since some companies have policies which disallow pulling script from other sites (protection against cross scripting). |
| Very easy to use, intuitive, etc. |
| Works nicely, lots of options, produces professional quality, upload or point to URL picture. |
| Type in your URL, wait about 10 minutes and then get a screenshot of your site in over 50 browsers, very interesting. Discovered that my site had black squares on IE 4, IE 5.5 and IE 6.0. VERY useful this tool. |
| Very classy with transparency titles. |
| Nice effect to know about, would need the right context, demo on first page. |
| Narrate videos and make them available in one click, free. |
| Like vnc, free for non-commercial use, use other PCs remotely. |
| A deeper defragger than most, does registry hives, files, etc. |
| Much better than task manager, recommended by Scott Hanselman. |
| Free PHP library to keep web app safe from malicious input, 2MB or so, easy to use (two lines). |
| Free, enables you to output creation and insert into SQL code. |
| Compares and synchronizes SQL database schemas. Could be useful. Costs about 300 euros but someone recommended it at Stackoverflow. |
| Works nicely, I use it for [url=http://www.tanguay.info/datapod]Datapod[/url] sites, interface takes about 3 minutes to get use to, decent, cool: integrated in Firefox. disadvantages: need to close all instances firefox to zip .sqlite database. |