Recently I’ve noticed that a lot of my co-developers where I work don’t use a lot of tools beyond the usual VisualStudio / Notepad combo. I find that rather weird since personally I have spent a lot of time learning how to use certain tools because it makes life just that much easier. As I am pretty sure I have mentioned before, developers are supposed to be lazy. According to Larry Wall (the inventor of Perl) this is even one of the three most important virtues of a programmer – the other two being impatience and hubris. In this case I happen to agree with Larry, because the urge to avoid any kind of repetitive, mind-numbing task or do something with two clicks instead of three is what programming is all about.