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Best Practice 7 - Keep your Tools & Techniques Handy

I remember an instance when I wanted to find out debug keyword in all the C++ files available in various directories and sub-directories, it took me 30 minutes to find the command, but finally, I kept a note of the command, and whenever I'm in need, I use it without wasting a second.

$find . -name \*.cpp -exec grep -q "debug" '{}' \; -print

So, I made it one of the best practices to keep such commands and tools handy so that they can be used anytime without doing any R&D and to save valuable time. Better to maintain a text file having all such frequently used commands and create its link at desktop.

IT Tools & Techniques

Few Essential Tools

It depends on what type of programming, coding you are doing but following are few of the essential tools, which should be readily available with a software developer:

  • A good text editor to write and edit the program.

  • A nice debugger to debug the program.

  • A memory detector in case you are using dynamic memory allocation.

  • Putty to connect to a remote machine.

  • WinSCP or FileZilla to ftp files on a remote machine.

  • IDE ( Integrated Development Environment) for rapid development.

Always keep adding new tools & techniques in your box

Tool Box

Make sure you keep applying latest patches of your tools and utilities and same time I will suggest to clean unwanted software from your computer as they unnecessarily make your computer slow and you never know if any one of them is having a security hole, which can expose your computer to the outside world.

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