Developer & Productivity Tools

Text editors & notes

• Sublime text used for Node projects and Angular/Bootstrap prototypes. 
• Textpad lightweight editor used for desktop notes and text manipulation, supports column highlighting and reg-ex search/replace
• Evernote used on the move for capturing ideas, planning and sharing between devices

Source control

• Team Foundation Server
• Github

Testing & test automation

• Selenium & Selenium IDE (firefox)
• Microsoft Test Manager (to review)

Planning

• Evernote used on the move for capturing ideas, planning and sharing between devices
• Wunderlist (to review)
• Toodledo (using less)
• I have used Trello for the recruitment process, especially useful when there are different people at different stages applying for different roles

Performance tuning

• Y-Slow
• Windows performance counters

Application Performance Monitoring

• NewRelic - it just works

Design

• Balsamiq Mockups
• Paint.net

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

• Angular - it's a good start and one of the best, but needs work. Waiting on V2.0 improvements for lazy loading controller modules
• Bootstrap - for all of your responsive design needs

Javascript Tools

• http://www.jslint.com/

IRC

• https://slack.com/

Productivity

• http://momentumdash.com/ chrome plugin