Dev Tools
gommo April 28th, 2007
This page lists the development tools I currently use to get my work done. If you have any suggestions on getting more out of these tools or better tools to replace those below, drop me an email.
Java Tools
Eclipse - Currently my preferred IDE for Java but I do use Netbeans for GUI editing. I have been trialling IDEA though.
ANT - The standard build tool for Java however I’m thinking (and struggling) with moving to Maven 2
JBoss/EJB3 - Its the only part of the J2EE stack I’m experienced with but also moving into web arena with JBoss Seam
.NET Tools
Visual Studio 2005 - This is obvious but I do want to say its because I have to live with it!! Microsoft need to take a look at other IDE’s out there like eclipse etc.. and start improving their development tools. People who say Visual Studio is a world class IDE probably have never left the Microsoft Development Environment.
Development Management
JIRA - I must admit I’m obsessed with JIRA and Atlassian in general and would give my right leg to work for them if I didn’t have to move to Sydney to do it 
Subversion - The best open source version control system. Honesty, I don’t understand why CVS is still used. Open source projects should stop supporting it.
Hudson - We’ve been using this for continuous integration at my work. It lacks a few finishing touches relating to tagging svn repositories etc.. but hopefully we’ll get a plugin developed for that.