Beginner Developer Series: Computer Softwares

As part of a computer setup, there are some essential programs one needs to have installed. Personally, here is my suite of programs that I install on a clean machine.

First and foremost, there is an awesome site called Ninite that helps setup Windows machines. From Ninite, I always install the following.

• Web Browsers
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Firefox
• Utilities: WinDirStat (helps find large files)
• Messaging
  • Skype
  • Thunderbird (free email client, alt. to MS Outlook)
• Media
  • iTunes (music/video)
  • VLC (video player, plays everything)
  • Audacity (audio editing)
  • Spotify (better radio than iTunes)
  • QuickTime
• Runtimes *REQUIRED
  • Java
  • .NET
  • Silverlight
  • Air
  • Shockwave
• Compression: 7-zip (helps find large files)
• Imaging
  • GIMP (optional, if you do not have PhotoShop)
  • Inkscape (optional, if you do not have Illustrator)
• Documents
  • OpenOffice (optional, free alternative to MS Office)
  • Reader
• Online Storage
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive
  • SkyDrive
• Developer Tools
  • Python (optional)
  • Filezilla (FTP/sFTP)
  • Notepad++ (Powerful Editor)
  • JDK (optional)
  • PuTTY (required for Git, etc.)
  • Eclipse (optional IDE)

Once you select all of these, you simply click "Get Installer," then run the installer, and go get some Starbucks for Brian Gardner's sake or a Mountain Dew for my sake. Simply walk away and do something else for a bit.

After these install, I also install the following softwares manually:

• Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud Master Collection (par excellence design tool)
• Latest Version of Internet Explorer
• Safari for Windows
• XAMPP: Local Apache & PHP server for rapid development.
• MySQL Workbench: If you are used to MS SQL Server, then this will make you feel more at home.
• Git for Windows (Download): For running Git from the command line.
• TortoiseSVN: WordPress Core Trac Patches & use with Assembla SVN (free private SVN repos)
• TortoiseGit: Use with Github & Bitbucket (free private Git repos)
• Atlassian Source Tree: Windows GUI for Git (works with Github and Bitbucket)
• Bitvise Tunnelier: SSH & FTP Client, better than PuTTY IMHO
• NodeJS: Use with CSSLint, JSLint, Grunt, etc.
• Git Credentials: Stores credentials so I don't have to enter them over and over again.
• Screen Capturing Software: Jing and/or TinyGrab2
• Cyberduck: Awesome FTP client for Amazon S3
• Sublime Text: Premium Editor ($70)
• phpStorm: Premium Editor ($99)

Did I miss anything from a Windows perspective?