A quick note : never say "crud" in a meeting if the thing you are speaking about has anything to do with reading or writing data. For example, I was just in a meeting when somebody said, "This does a lot of crud...there's all this crud here...". In...

Every person has a set of tools and whatnot for their development environment that they use & have grown accustomed to. For example, a couple of (publicly available) tools that I use day in and day out are TextPad and Beyond Compare . Another "tool"...