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Tools I wish I knew from the start

Davide de Paolis on February 04, 2019

In the career of a software developer it happens many time that you have to start from scratch in a new technology, because the one you are expert ...
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William Antonelli •

+1 for DBeaver.

I use GitKraken for git things; faster than using CLI sometimes and has support for submodules. IMO it's better than Github Desktop and works with Bitbucket and Gitlab. GloKraken is a kanban board that can link to Github Issues too. I love these 2 tools.

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Davide de Paolis •

wow. gitrkaken and glokraken look pretty neat!

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ponsfrilus •

Very nice article ! You might want to change "oh my ysh" to "oh my zsh".

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Davide de Paolis •

thanx for spotting it. immediately corrected!

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garrisonknmi •

"git hooks i t" s/b "is" I believe
MindMup s/b MindMap - which has switched to a reasonably expensive licensing model and is essentially unaffordable unless you are paying with other people's money.

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Davide de Paolis •

thanx. i corrected the typos. honestly i dont know about the licensing model of MindMup. i use the free tier with google drive. and for my needs is enough. :-)

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garrisonknmi •

My bad - hadn't heard of MindMup (since I use MindJet Manager). Thanks for tip! Will convert to the free version using Google Drive and stop using MJM.

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Sercan Özdemir • • Edited

I wonder why don't you use Nosqlclient for MongoDB it's intuitive, easy to use and free :)

Let me know for your concerns and I'll do my best to implement.

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Davide de Paolis •

didn't know that. will have a look. even though we switched to AWS recently so i don't do much MongoDB anymore.

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Sercan Özdemir •

Good to hear, in AWS you can set it up as a docker installation if you need a MongoDB tool ;)

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Periklis Gkolias •

Not software tools per se, but I wish I did start embracing ergonomy practices earlier

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Marco Carrozzo • • Edited

I have to try Charles and jq 😀