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This post has no scientific reasons about which kind of tools a professional needs to use. The use of these tools spans from development to operations to maintainance to marketing to support and to PR and so on. Not everything may be needed by a [your favourite technology] developer. The tools may be relevant to Internet startups. I use (or used) them for getting my work done.
Stomp — Turn 100 words into a cinematic intro
Trello — to track project(s)
Visual studio — seems to be world’s most impressive IDE
Postman — the super API test tool
Workbench and SSMS — Database studios
Sql search — to search anything in entire SQL server
Skype — for free chat
Ubuntu — less cost linux server
Mono — cross platform .NET for removing windows licensing costs
HackerNews — lot of lovely information
Google analytics — to track the site performance
MailChimp — email marketing
Mail gun — for upto 10k free & automated monthly emails using simple API
Zoho Email — for business emails
AddThis — for socializing content
Alexa — to check global site ranking
Pocket — to read later
Dropbox — for file backup
Google Compute engine — for clouding
FileZilla — for FTP-ing
GoDaddy — for DNS and SSL certificate management
Firebug — specially for sniffing http requests
Chrome — all in one web browser with the best developer console
jsFiddle — to test CSS, HTML and javascript elements
Git — for code control, while Github is horribly expensive, BitBucket is better for startups
YSlow? — for website health tests
Atom — a hackable editor
HTTrack website Copier — to download entire web based documentations
Stackoverflow — technical knowledge collaboration
The muse — for executive education
CDN — for offloading our own servers
Font awesome — for free and fast fonts
Bootstrap — mature UI infrastructure
SASS — mature CSS pre-processor
Scout App — mature SASS pre-processing tool
Ionic — hybrid apps development framework
AngularJS — asynchronous javascript framework
Web Essentials — for so many web development features
Product hunt, AngelList and Techcrunch — for latest startups
Jekyll and Github pages — for static pages hosting
Evernote — especially for saving receipts.
Originally published at xameeramir.github.io.