Just installed a new development system for personal use... currently i only have the following installed:
- Windows XP Professional, with Service Pack 3: i don't have Windows 2008 and i still don't consider Vista to be a valid option
- SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition: i don't have the 2008 version, plus the 2005 version more than suits my needs
- Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1: duh....
- Resharper 4.1: duh... won't use Visual Studio without it
- TortoiseSVN + VisualSVN: TortoiseSVN is great already, but the Visual Studio integration that VisualSVN provides is so nice that i can't go back to just using TortoiseSVN.
- NHibernate Profiler: it's not even out of private beta and i already consider this a must-have tool... i hope Ayende is gonna go easy on the licensing cost for this
- dotTrace: you gotta have a profiler, right?
Anything else i should consider installing? I only use this system for development so i don't want any suggestions that aren't related to that.
On a side note, despite being a Parallels customer i set this system up in VMWare Fusion. According to some reviews i read, Fusion beats Parallels when it comes to IO, making the system feel more 'snappy'. I've been very impressed with the Fusion performance already so i just bought a license and am planning to use Fusion exclusively from now on instead of Parallels.