What development tools do you carry on your USB dr

Question

I've just bought a new 4GB USB thumb drive and I'm trying to decide what to put on it. I'm thinking about one of the webserver on a stick packages, a C/C++ IDE (leaning toward Code::Blocks; had Dev-C++ on my old USB drive) and Python.

What development related tools do you carry around with you on yours?

Update

I've added categories.

IDEs

Code::Blocks Open source, cross platform C/C++ IDE

• Supports several compilers (that you must supply) but you can also download a version that includes MingW.
• (There's a FAQ question on their website explaining how to make it portable)

Codelite -- Open-source, cross platform C/C++ IDE
Eclipse -- Open-source, cross platform Java IDE
NetBeans -- Open-source, cross platform Java IDE
JCreator -- Java IDE
MSVC6 -- Microsoft's pre-.NET C/C++ environment

Languages & Compilers

Portable Python -- Interpreter for the Python programming language

• Includes SciTE (editor) and Django (web framework)

Strawberry Perl -- "A 100% Open Source CPAN-capable Perl for Windows® computer that works exactly the same as Perl everywhere else."
Py3k -- Newest version of the Python programming language
Stackless Python
Lua -- Scripting language
MinGW -- Sort of a Windows port of GCC

• "MinGW provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native Windows programs that do not depend on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs."

Editors

Notepad++ (after so many recommendations, I had to try it)
UltraEdit -- "text, hex, HTML, PHP, Java, Javascript, Perl, and programmer's editor."
VIM -- "highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing"

• Major rival to emacs

HEdit -- Hex editor
XVI32 (Hex Editor)
e text editor -- "The Power of Textmate on Windows"
Intype text editor -- Code editor for Windows
ConTEXT -- Code and text editor
Editpad Pro -- "powerful and versatile text editor or word processor."

Discovery

Dependency Walker -- Allows you to see what DLLs a program or DLL depends on and what functions they export.
Reflector -- Allows you to look into and decompile .Net assemblies
Spy++
DbWin32 -- Lets you see Windows debug and trace messages

• Similar to DebugView

DebugView -- Lets you see Windows debug and trace messages

Web & Network

Firefox Portable (with Firebug)
OperaUSB -- Web browser
XamppLite -- Package that includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL & SQLite
PuTTY -- telnet and SSH client
Wireshark -- network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer)
WinSCP -- SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows

Diff/Merge

SourceGear DiffMerge -- Compare two files side by side and merge if needed.
WinDiff -- File comparison tool
Winmerge -- "Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows."

Unix-like Tools

GNU Utilities for Win32 -- Windows version of several Unix/Linux tools
Cygwin -- Port of a Unix type environment to Windows
PowerGREP -- GREP tool

Visual Studio & .NET

NUnit -- Unit testing for .NET
TestDriven.NET -- Easily run your unit tests from Visual Studio
AnkSVN -- Subversion plugin for Visual Studio
LINQPad -- Tool to interactively develop Linq queries.

• "lets you interactively query SQL databases in a modern query language: LINQ"

Regular Expression Tools

Expresso -- Regular Expression tool
RegexBuddy -- Regular Expression tool

Misc

The Sysinterals Suite (includes DebugView, Process Explorer, & more)
WinZip
DosHere
7-zip -- Open source file archiver
Scrollbar fix for VB6
puretext -- Paste w/ formatting removed
VirtualBox -- Open source virtualization product.

• Similar to VMWare or VirtualPC

Answer 1

1. Firefox
2. Notepad++
3. Python
4. Some music (it calms me between coding jobs!)

Answer 2

I use to take with me UnixUtils.

UnixUtils are a set of commands of Unix ported to windows, so I only have to add a directory to the windows path and then i'm able to use most of the common linux command in the shell of a windows machine, making my job easier.

Answer 3

Ones not mentioned:

• WinSCP (for all your S/FTP, etc connections)
• LINQPad (for all your .NET code testing)
• PuTTY

Answer 4

I would add to the list this great OSS for Windows:

• 7-zip. It can handle not only zips, gzs, bz2s, rars or arjs but even rpms or isos.
• Winmerge. A directory/file comparation tool is always necessary.

Answer 5

I recommend WinDbg.

Answer 6

I carry a VirtualBox hard drive file that contains the whole development environment for our project.

It takes about a minute to set up on a any new machine for development in a familiar environment.

Install VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine, plug in the usb drive, point the virtual machine to the hard drive file, boot into the dev environment from the virtual machien. Takes about a minute atop of the download time of VirtualBox.