37signals have a very nice list of tools that helped them run and build their team. Do read the comments for more insights on other people’s ideas. I am beginning to really like the idea of a very open community in this blog-era-internet. People are virtually opening up almost everything, sharing everything and being in a very healthy competition.
And here are some of the tools that we use day in and day out (or rather very frequently) at Oinam Software
Online
- CVSDude – CVS, SVN, Trac for Source Version Control
- DirectI for Website-Domain-DNS Management
- Basecamp for Project Management
- Gmail for Newsletters, Lyrics and everything that can come in with possible spams
- MovableType for most of our Site’s CMS
- Mint for Site Statistics Analysis
- MediaTemple, MediumCube and our own OinamHost for Hosting, Management, Development, Staging Servers
- Blinksale for Invoice
- PunBB, the minimalistic forum software powers our Technical Discussion Board (some sections of the forum is open to public)
Offline
- Eclipse and its variant – WTP, CFEclipse, PHPEclipse for XHTML, CSS, ActionScript, JavasScript, ColdFusion, PHP
- Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird for E-Mail Management
- Firefox of course, the de-facto Web Browser
- Newsgator-FeedDemon for RSS Management
- Lenovo (Erstwhile IBM) Thinkcenter and Thinkpads
- Trillian for IMs and internal text-communication, Skype and teliphone.ca for Voice communication
- Flash IDE
- Photoshop
What about your Dev Tools?
