What software do you use in your job?

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What software do you regularly use in your job and would you recommend other people learn it?

Don't include stuff like music players or chat programs that you don't specifically use for your regular work.

I use Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver on a daily basis. I can definitely recommend Photoshop and Illustrator, they're simply the best at what they do in my opinion. Dreamweaver is pretty much just a fancy text editor, there are definitely some good alternatives out there.
 
I use
Visual Studio 2015 - By far the best IDE I've ever used.
Sublime Text 3 - Extra editor
Firefox Developer Edition - Nice features for front-end development

Do databases count? I use their programs quite a lot:
Microsoft SQL
Pervasive PSQL
 
I use Excel and Word basically everyday. Not very specialized software as such, but I have type up a lot of reports and do a lot of calculations; I would recommend to anyone to learn more than just the basics of both programs as they can make your life a lot easier.

I also use ETAPro for plant monitoring purposes and Dimbo for creating virtual models of the power plant/steam water cycle (although I don't use it every day).
 
As a person working with lots of data, and our client always looking for better ways of understanding and interpreting the data, I'll definitely recommend Qlikview. Great way of creating dashboards and other reports for use on almost any kind of database.

Also,and I'm being serious, people should learn more advance ways of using Microsoft Office products. There are a vast amount of features in programs like Excel and PowerPoint that people don't realise is there, but can make your life in a corporate environment much easier.
 
DieGrootHammer said:
As a person working with lots of data, and our client always looking for better ways of understanding and interpreting the data, I'll definitely recommend Qlikview. Great way of creating dashboards and other reports for use on almost any kind of database.

Also,and I'm being serious, people should learn more advance ways of using Microsoft Office products. There are a vast amount of features in programs like Excel and PowerPoint that people don't realise is there, but can make your life in a corporate environment much easier.
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Some stupid MBA (okay its the bosses friend - that convinced him to buy a one man show company) told my boss he needs dashboards to understand his company.

What would you consider advanced ways of using MS products? I did just get someone to stop using a calculator to add up cells. :p

Now for my list.

Excel, Word, Outlook
MS Project
Autodesk Inventor
Autocad
Autodesk showcase - rarely
3DS Max - rarely
 
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Uhh...Putty, UltraVNC, Skype (contact with the bossman), Firefox (for Proxmox interface), WinSCP.

..and then Excel and Word I guess.
 
Excel mostly - no substitute for it to slice & dice data when the layout & format etc is different every week.

Plus in-house developed software - there is really an equivalent on the open market...but I guess a cross between MS Project, Pastel, Evernote and Dropbox is about as best as I can describe it.

MetalSoup said:
Don't include stuff like music players or chat programs that you don't specifically use for your regular work.
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I wouldn't exclude chat - its fast becoming de rigueur for corporates. The big corporates have 100k+ people connected to their internal servers via their laptops & cellphones - pretty damn powerful as a coordination & communication tool at that scale. Plus I like watching the timezone effect...you can literally see countries waking up by watching who is online. :D
 
uhm..

Visual Studio 2010 (Want to upgrade to 2015)
MSSQL
MySQL
Microsoft Expression Design (Its no photoshop but it works)
 
czc said:
Some stupid MBA (okay its the bosses friend - that convinced him to buy a one man show company) told my boss he needs dashboards to understand his company.
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Get him to sell my latest data visualisation tool... Still in heavy beta (had a weekend's worth of work done on it), but proof of concept is solid. Can also report on just about any data source (ADO, OLE, ODBC and the cherry on the cake - HTTP/S) and any amount of drill-ins can be defined. Exports and filters coming soon, then on to roles and permissions and administration area to setup the whole lot. Sneak peek available here.

On to the stuff I use most days:
- NetBeans 8.0.2 (for building awesome Java stuff)
- Oracle SQL Developer (for building not-so-awesome PL/SQL stuff)
- Filezilla (for FTP-ing data across to servers)
- PuTTY (for messing around on said servers)
- Soap UI 4.6.3 (for testing awesome Java web- and REST services)
- Fiddler4 (for testing awesome USSD sessions to Java servlets)
- Notepad++ (for opening and fiddling with a variety of files)
- InkScape 0.48 (for designing awesome icons and other vector graphics to use in web applications)
- Outlook (because I'm forced to use it for our client's email address - I puke a bit every time I open it)
- Chrome / Firefox / IE (and now Edge) / Safari (for testing whatever awesome web applications I'm building that day)

The some stuff I used to use every day, but don't use so often anymore:
- Visual Studio 2012 Pro / 2013 Community Edition (for building awesome .NET application frameworks and tools for my devs to use)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Management Studio (for managing and building awesome SQL Server databases)
- MySQL Workbench 6.3 (for managing and building not-so-awesome MySQL databases)
- CorelDRAW X7 (for designing awesome corporate identities including logos, letterheads and other imagery)
- Remote Desktop Connection (for connecting to our awesome server to manage deployed web applications)
 
Intersystems Cache/Ensemble (DBMS)
Visual studio 2013
Visual Basic 6 (legacy app support)
Notepad++
SoapUI - useful for testing or debugging new web services.
XMLSpy - awesome for creating new xml schemas.
 
Doing mostly bug testing, and migration of old Access systems to new SQL system at the moment. Also build installshields for the new systems.

Normal Stuff like Word, Excel, Outlook
Visual Studio 2010 Pro
Visual Studio 2012 Express
SQL Data Tools for VS
SQL server 2008/2014 & Management Studio
Access
Notepad++ (best text editor since the inventions of....text)
Flexera Installshield 2011 Pro (for building kickass "next>next>next>finish" installers)
and then our in-house developed software
 
czc said:
What would you consider advanced ways of using MS products? I did just get someone to stop using a calculator to add up cells. :p
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So, some of the features I use an incredible amount of time in Excel are like Conditional Formatting, sparklines, slicers, watch window, data validation, consolidate, What-If analysis, power pivot, and normal pivot tables. I've done many reports with these features that people simply have no clue how it's done. It's kinda scary. Also, there is a shocking amount of people that don't know how a pivot table should be done properly. And don't even get me started on formulas and macro's. I use macro's and formulas as much as I can, because I'm lazy and want to get some menial tasks done quicker.

There are the same number of stuff in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook that can help you make things that people do every day over and over again just much simpler. Also, don't forget about OneNote, as it's rather useful.
 
Open Office
Internet Explorer (for email and such) - I know it's terrible but what are you gonna do?
Softline Retail Management System
Irfanview
 
Hmmm...let me see how many I can name off the top of my head.

- PuTTy
- WinSCP
- VMWare vCenter
- Squid
- SARG
- MRTG
- Icinga
- Skype for Business 2015 / Lync 2013
- TFTP Server
- Bugzilla
- Notepad++
- Visual Studio .Net
- SQL Management Studio
- MS Powershell :-)
- MySQL management tools (PhpMySQL mainly)
- GIT
- SVN
- CVS
- BIND
- OpenVPN
- OpenSSH
- OSSIM
- OSSEC
- Alienvault
- Cisco FirePOWER / FireSIGHT
- Foglight
- Veeam
- Exim
- MS Office
- OpenOffice
- DIA
- FileZilla
and a couple more i'm sure I haven't mentioned
 
Thunderbird
MS Excel
MS Word
Corel Graphic Suit X6
Illustrator CS6
Indesign CS6
Photoshop CS4/6
Adobe Distiller X
Adobe Acrobat X Pro
Winamp :D
 
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