What I use?

Tom Forth, February 2019

I'm giving a talk on Monday where I think I’ll need to tell people what I use. So rather than put it on a PowerPoint slide, I’m putting it on the web. Because I like the web.

Databases

• MongoDB, in Atlas, on AWS.
• MySQL, on Azure.
• MongoDB Compass and Navicat to manage my databases.

Websites

• HTML5
• Javascript
• CSS
• PHP
• Small Javascript Libraries (PapaParse, Leaflet, Pikaday, Moment, D3, StuQuery, StuCharts, Google Charts)
• Hosted on a small hosting service in Leeds. (no React, no WordPress, no Angular etc…)
• Developed mostly in Brackets by Adobe.

APIs

• ASP.NET (C#), hosted on Azure Web Apps.
• PHP for some basic APIs.

Apps

• PhoneGap by Adobe.
• Developed separately for iOS and Android using Android Studio and XCode, but with a common codebase.
• Plugins for notifications, calendar access, etc…

Data processing and Machine-learning

• EmEditor (powerful text editor).
• C# (.NET Core 2).
• Accord.NET.
• Lots of other packages from NuGET (CSVHelper, MongoDB driver, DotSpatial, NewtonSoft JSON)
• Visual Studio 2017.

Other software

• Office 365
• QGIS
• InkScape
• Photoshop Elements

Computers

• XPS13 Q9360 laptop, 4 cores, 16GB RAM, Windows 10.
• Azure Virtual Machine, flexible size (up to 8 cores, 32GB RAM), Windows 10.
• Azure Web Apps (Windows 10) for recurring tasks.