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The power of tools has increased every year as I have observed.  The amount of storage required has also increased, except for storage of source code.  The Jing by TechSmith video capture tool is quite amazing.  When I teach about software engineering, my students show me even better tools.  Jing is a bargain for the money: free.
Picture
Jing serves well to document errors on screens, desired changes to screens, and successful results of certain inputs.

Wiki
, such as Confluence, serves as a consolidation point for ideas
Notepad++ handles many kinds of flat files well.

Jira
has many good points, but it lacks ranking and status for comment records


MS-Excel works well for sorting, formatting, and data transfer.  Excel can translate values and sort.  Macros give Excel great power.
MS-Wor
d generates files that work well for documentation; the comparison capabilities work well for combining versions.
WinMerge
systematically compares and merges source files.  See SourceForge.net
SQL Developer works well for executing SQL.  AquaData Studio has more features.
WinSCP
is useful for connecting to remote servers

AppDesigner
is the primary tool for maintaining and modifying PeopleSoft objects.
Languages
COBOL strong algorithmic power, extendable by libraries; I have written tens of thousands of lines of COBOL for many uses.
The COBOL compiler works well inside batch files.
C++ has excellent speed and classes of objects; libraries and utilities; Verifone programs
BASIC thousands of lines for many applications
Java
some utilities, like a program to extract data from *.pdf files.
python has become more popular: see python considerations
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