https://github.com/zapthedingbat/toolbox
A little compendium of tools, references and resources used in my everyday development
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A little compendium of tools, references and resources used in my everyday development
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/zapthedingbat/toolbox
- Owner: zapthedingbat
- Created: 2016-10-31T12:22:13.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-03-13T01:20:45.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-18T03:02:26.376Z (over 1 year ago)
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- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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# Toolbox #
A little compendium of tools, references and resources for web development in a mostly windows environment
These are windows, or cross platform tools
## Development ##
- [.Net core](https://www.microsoft.com/net/core)
Cross platform runtime environment and compiler for .Net
- [Python](https://www.python.org/)
Python programing language and runtime environment.
- [NodeJs](https://nodejs.org/)
JavaScript runtime environment.
## Applications ##
- [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/)
Google chrome web browser.
- [FireFox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/)
Mozilla FireFox web browser.
- [InkScape](https://inkscape.org/)
Vector graphics editor.
- [Notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
Source code editor and Notepad replacement.
- [Paint.net](http://www.getpaint.net/)
Image and photo editor.
- [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/)
Tor based web browser for anonymous communication and browsing.
- [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/)
General-purpose virtualizer to host other operating systems.
- [VisualStudio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/)
VisualStudio Code IDE.
## Utilities ##
- [7zip](http://www.7-zip.org/download.html)
Compression and archive manager
- [ConEmu](https://conemu.github.io/)
Tabbed console replacment.
- [Fiddler](http://www.telerik.com/fiddler)
HTTP debugging proxy.
- [Git for windows](https://git-scm.com/download/win)
Git distributed version control system.
- [KeePass](http://keepass.info/)
Password manager
- [Putty](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)
SSH and Telnet client.
- [WireShark](https://www.wireshark.org/)
Network packet analyzer.
- [WinSCP](https://winscp.net/)
SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client.
- [WinMerge](http://winmerge.org/)
diff, merge and comparison tool.
- [VLC](http://www.videolan.org/)
Media player.
- [SysInternals Handle.exe](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx)
Displays information about open handles.
- [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html)
Infrastructure as code.
## PowerShell ##
- [PsGet](http://psget.net/)
Search and install PowerShell modules.
- [Posh-Git](http://dahlbyk.github.io/posh-git/)
PowerShell module which provides Git/PowerShell integration.
# Configuration #
## SSH ##
Posh-Git makes working with git in powershell much easier so install that.
### Option 1. ssh-agent ###
- Use `puttygen` to create your SSH key.
- Save your key (in OpenSSH format) as `~/.ssh/id_rsa` and `~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub`\
- puttygen produces keys in different format to OpenSSH, use *Conversions* > *Export OpenSSH key* to get the OpenSSH format.
- Add your keys to GitHub, AWS, VisualStudioOnline, etc online.
#### 1.1 If you have multiple different ssh keys ####
Add keys to the `~/.ssh/` directory the filenames in the format `~/.ssh/id_rsa-*keyname*` and `~/.ssh/id_rsa-*keyname*.pub`
For each remote ssh host add the following structure to the `~/.ssh/config` file
```
Host *.example.com
User exampleuser
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-*keyname*
```
For AWS IAM, User is the **SSH Key ID**
- You will be prompted for the passphrase for your key each time it's used if you don't add it to the ssh-agent.
- You could modify your Posh-Git profile (at `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\posh-git\profile.example.ps1`)
to add the keys to the ssh agent so you dont need to keep providing the passphrase.
```
Add-SshKey ~/.ssh/id_rsa-*keyname*
```
### Option 2. KeePass + KeyAgent ###
KeeAgent is a plugin for KeePass that acts a pagent alternative for putty/plink
- Install [KeePass](http://keepass.info/) and [KeeAgent](http://lechnology.com/software/keeagent/).
- Install [Putty](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)
- Use `puttygen` to create SSH key pairs and save them securly somewhere.
- Add your private keys to your KeePass database (and, optionally, delete them off the file system).
- Modify your profile ($profile)
- Add the following lines to set the GIT_SSH environment var to plink
```
# Use KeeAgent
$env:GIT_SSH = "plink"
```
When you next use git to interact with your remote git the key should be provided by KeePass (which will need to be running)
## Azure ##
Download and install [language-specific SDKs and tools for your platform of choice.](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/downloads/).
For .Net development Azure libraries [come through NuGet](https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=windowsazureofficial) now.
Manage azure resources on the [Azure Portal](https://portal.azure.com/)
## AWS ##
### AWS Command Line Interface ###
With Pyton (and pip) installed, install the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
```
pip install awscli
```
### Elastic Beanstalk ###
Install the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI)\
With Python (and pip) installed, install the EB CLI with pip
```
pip install --upgrade --user awsebcli
```