10 Tools That Help Me Succeed

In no particular order...

• R
• Quicksilver
• IntelliJ IDEA
• News Readers
• del.icio.us
• NetKernel
• Rhino
• iMote
• Unix command line

Yeah, ok, there are only 9. So sue me.

Would be interesting to see some track-backed lists..

Comments...

I would have listed NetNewsWire instead of the generic News Readers, but it's buggy as heck (as is its sister MarsEdit). Would love to see a bug fix release this year.

And if it wasn't for bash, sed, tr, sort, uniq, cut, etc, I would be completely stalled. Even with cygwin, I cannot see how any PC user gets anything done.

Do this in a vanilla command shell..

VERSION=`find ./ -name "${NAME}-[0-9]*.jar" | sed -n 's/.*-\([.0-9]*\)\.jar$/\1/p' | sort -t '.' -k1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3n | tail -1`

It finds the most recent versioned jar file. The tricky part is sorting numerically (1.10 is newer than 1.9).

Obviously I left out things that are ubiquitous like the tcp/ip stack, web browsers, and air. News readers aren't there yet.