Tools

Shell & Enhancements

Better command lines for windows:

• Microsoft Terminal
  The new Windows Terminal
• Fish
  shell with some nice enhancements.
  available for MacOS, Linux and Cygwin/Windows 
• hyper.is
  Electron based terminal
• Clink
  Bash-Like feature for cmd.exe
• ConEmu
  console emulator with tabs 
• cmder 
  nice and good looking console emulator for windows 

Drawing and Visualizing

• Draw a diagram in your code using PlantUML
• Draw a diagram with Diagrams (draw.io)
• Draw a diagram that looks like hand-drawn Excalidraw
• Use proven templates like arc42
• Very cool render server for different things: kroki.io

also see what we collected on cultureascodemanifesto.org

Collaboration Tools

• miro
  collaboration tools for agile and product development – like scrum retrospectives, user story maps and so on.
• Atlassian
  famous for JIRA the issue tracker, but offers also a version control server, ci server and a wiki. also owner of Trello.
• domorobo.to
  online service to help with various workshop formats to make them work in an online setup.

Template Engines

• Thymeleaf
  Java library with an optional Spring MVC module.
• Apache Velocity
• Closure Tools (SOY Templates)
  Server and client side template engine. Also used in Confluence Plugins. 
• htmx.org

PDF / Word generation

• Aspose Libraries
  creating word and excel fiels with Java.

MacOS

beside the Fish shell above there is also:

• Kitty
  GPU based terminal

Linux

Setting up Postfix on Debian / Ubuntu: workaround.org

Server-Administration via Browser: Webmin

Email-Server Solution: iRedMail

Useful Git Aliases

To learn more about git consider playing around with the visual cheat sheet. if you want to know more on branching try the interactive demo of pcottle. On the Atlassian site there is also a nice git tutorial available.

checkout all branches

git config --global alias.clone-branches '! git branch -a | sed -n "/\/HEAD /d; /remotes/p;" | xargs -L1 git checkout -t'

So «git clone-branches» will create a local branch of all remote branches (useful when moving a Git repository to a new origin).

git push origin --all
git push origin --tags

list tracked branches

alias.track=!sh -c "
if [ \$# -eq 2 ]
 then
   echo \"Setting tracking for branch \" \$1 \" -> \" \$2;
   git branch --set-upstream \$1 \$2;
 else
   git for-each-ref --format=\"local: %(refname:short) <--sync--> remote: %(upstream:short)\" refs/heads && echo --URLs && git remote -v;
fi
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