ReSharper Short Cuts

In my "Tools I need to do my job..." series I already mentioned ReSharper here.
To gain the full productivity power of this tool it's good to know the keyboard shortcuts. I have a printout of this pdf always on my desk:

Tools I need to do my job: ... Commander

I've always been a big fan of two file window managers since the my early computer days. Starting with Midnight Commander on unix systems I switched to (windows) Total Commander and and used this one for many years. Even on my Ubuntu I'm using at home I'm using more ore less only this type of file manager (Krusader). Now writing this post I thought of looking for an alternative to this and found two things:

1.) A site that lists alternatives to something: alternativeto.net

2.) A free alternative to Total Commander: FreeCommander (found via alternative.net here...)

At first look I was missing nothing. Maybe I will update this post once I found something that would make me change back to Total Commander.

Tools I need to do my job: AQTime

Profiling is important when it comes to the CCD rule "Don't optimize" which means you should not optimize code without proving that it really represents a bottle neck. I do not have very dedicated opinion on Profilers, but I can say so much that I personally found the profiler that comes with Visual Studio 2008 not very convincing. The best one I personally worked with is AQTime.

Rating: Strongly recommended.

Tools I need to do my job: XML Spy

When you are a power user of xml family techniques I really recommend using XML Spy from Altova. I've been trying lots of xml editing tools but none of them convinced me that much.

Rating: (Very) hard to do without!

Tools I need to do my job: UltraEdit

Does your Visual Studio starts quickly by clicking onto a source code file? Mine does not! So there is the need for an independent light footprint text editor that does a bit more that notepad. I tried some editors but none of them convinced me from moving away from from UltraEdit.

Rating: Hard to do without!

Tools I need to do my job: ManicTime

A new tool I just recently added to my toolbox is ManicTime. I was searching for something like a stop watch application where I could measure the time I'm spending for a specific task in order to get a better planning basis for SCRUM sprint planning. What I found with this tool is a time tagging application. It automatically detects idle times and lists on a time line which applications you are using. So you can easily rebuild time for tasks retrospectively because most of the time you will forget to switch stop watches in the common time keeping approach.

Rating: Really helpful for time keeping