John Mendez

Well it's an early saturday morning and not much is going on in the house right now, except that I am monitoring the sprinkler system in the backyard right now.  Have to get it ready for the summer grass.

I had multiple questions this week about what I have installed on my laptop for developing. I thought I would post what I have installed so all of you can see what tools I use to develop, or try to use to develop :)  So here is the list:

Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit
IIS (installed most features)
IIS Media Service 3.0
IIS URL Rewrite Module 2
IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0
SQL Server 2008 Standard
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (full install except SQL Express)
Silverlight 3
Silverlight 4
Deep Zoom Composer
ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0
PHP 5
Expression Studio 3
Expression Blend 4 RC
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools
XNA Game Framework (via Windows Phone 7 Tools install)
Windows Media Center SDK 6
Firefox
Safari
FileZilla
Paint.NET
Beyond Compare
Foxit Reader
Virtual Clone Drive
WinRAR

As far as javascript libraries I use the CDN's so no need to keep them on my laptop.

Also, my choice of WYSIWYG editors is TinyMCE.

Another mention. I'm not a big fan of putting beta software on my laptop because I can't afford to keep uninstalling/installing the releases.  Also I don't want it to interfere with the work I do. I will put RC on as I feel necessary.

That's about it. This is what gets me through all my projects. Since I do 95% web development in one way or the other, I don't need much more than this installed.

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