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    There's a GIF for that MetalSoup's Avatar
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    Post What software do you use in your job?

    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.

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    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

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    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).

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    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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    MS Outlook
    MS Word
    MS Excel

    ... yeah, I think that's it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DieGrootHammer View Post
    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.
    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.

    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.

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    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by MetalSoup View Post
    Don't include stuff like music players or chat programs that you don't specifically use for your regular work.
    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.
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    uhm..

    Visual Studio 2010 (Want to upgrade to 2015)
    MSSQL
    MySQL
    Microsoft Expression Design (Its no photoshop but it works)

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    Quote Originally Posted by czc View Post
    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.
    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)
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