10 Kick-Ass Tools Modern Developers Love (image gallery)

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GEEKS REVEAL THE INDUSTRY'S BEST TECH
10 KICK-ASS
TECHNOLOGIES MODERN
DEVELOPERS LOVE
Is geek love better
than normal love?

First Release: 2005
Latest Release: 2.0.1
Interesting Facts: Git was first designed and developed
by Linus Torvalds himself, for Linux kernel development.
Git is a distributed revision control and source code management
system made by Linux creator Linus Torvalds in between fits
of rage directed towards certain less-awesome contributors to
the Linux kernel.

First Release: 2012
Latest Release: 2.0
Interesting Facts: Unlike Ant and Maven, Gradle decided to
go a different route with a Groovy DSL for configuration
and scripts. It took 3 years and 11 milestones to go from
v0.7 in 2009 to v1.0 in 2012.
Gradle is a build tool that automates build test, deployment
and more. Unlike other build tools, it is powered by DSL
configuration. Rumors are emerging that Gradle can even
be configured to build you.

First Release: Jan 2007
Latest Release: 2.3
Interesting Facts: Did you know that a third of the
downstream traffic in the US is coming from Netflix?
And that that huge traffic goes through various layers
of Groovy? That makes Netflix the biggest deployment
at scale of Groovy!
Groovy is an OO programming language that runs on the JVM.
It also retains full interop with the Java language. Despite
popular belief, Groovy was not first invented by flower children
in the 1970s.

First Release: 2001
Latest Release: 13.1
Interesting Facts: IntelliJ is actually an Open Source
project hosted on GitHub, with over 130,000 commits
to date!
IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE developed in Java with advanced code
navigation and code refactoring capabilities, supporting
development in many languages including Java, Scala, Groovy
and Android. IntelliJ also boasts the most outspoken community
of crazed developers in love with it.

First Release: Jan 2011 (2005 as Hudson)
Latest Release: 1.5.7.1
Interesting Facts: Jenkins was born when the Hudson
project, created by Sun Microsystems, was forked when
questions grew over control or stewardship of the
project. Since then, Jenkins popularity has soared,
while Hudson tends to be used more for legacy projects.
Jenkins is a Continuous Integration tool, that provides automatic
build triggering from VCS commits and much more. Jenkins can
probably be customized via the Internet of Things to make your
drinks, but won't physically serve them to you.

JIRA
First Release: 2002
Latest Release: 6.2
Interesting Facts: JIRA is used for issue tracking and project
management by over 25,000 customers in 122 countries
around the globe. That's a lot of issues!
CONFLUENCE
First Release: 2004
Latest Release: 5.5
Interesting Facts: Confluence dropped wiki markup support
in version 4, but geek pressure brought it back as a
plugin which provides XHTML-based source markup.

First Release: 2007
Interesting Facts: MongoDB is both the product name and
the company name. Previously, the company was called
10gen, but nobody knew who they were until you said
"You know, the MongoDB people", so they bit the bullet
and changed their name to MongoDB!
MongoDB is a document database that supports programming
languages to map data types directly to documents in the
database. MongoDB is not the technology from the film
Blazing Saddles.

First Release: 2003
Interesting Facts: Scala was voted the most popular
JVM scripting language at the 2012 JavaOne conference.
In January 2014, the Redmonk Programming Language
Rankings report placed Scala 13th
, one place
above Haskell!
Scala is a JVM language that provides support for OO and
functional programming. It is a statically-typedlanguage with
full interop with Java, even though a lot of Java devs are still
scratching their heads in WTF mode with it most of the time.

TOMCAT
First Release: 1999
Interesting Facts: Tomcat was originally a merger of Sun
Java Web Server code and ASF RI if Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1,
hence starting at v 3.0.x
TOMEE
First Release: April 2012
Latest Release: 1.6.0.2
Interesting Facts: TomEE is certified for Java EE 6 web
profile and aimed at Java EE 7 full profile.

First Release: 2007
Interesting Facts: The cumulative time that JRebel
technology has saved developers is over 1 developer's
full lifetime! That's some serious redeploy time!
JRebel is a productivity tool for Java, Groovy and Scala
developer's. The tool eliminates build, compile, redeploy and
restart time from a development cycle. If you are a slow or
unnecessary part of the Java EE development cycle, watch out.
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