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title: "20 tools and tips that make me a better developer"
url: "https://osherove.com/videos/2010/11/24/20-tools-and-tips-that-make-me-a-better-developer.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/videos/2010/11/24/20-tools-and-tips-that-make-me-a-better-developer.html"
published: "2010-11-24T20:57:04"
updated: "2010-11-24T20:57:04"
tags: ["Oredev", "cloud", "tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "In this session you will learn about the tools I use every day to speed up my work, to help me think better, to help me plan better and execute faster, to find errors faster, to automate easier and to be better at what…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# 20 tools and tips that make me a better developer

By Roy Osherove November 24, 2010 In [Oredev](https://osherove.com/videos/category/oredev)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 24, 2010; technical details may be outdated.

In this session you will learn about the tools I use every day to speed up my work, to help me think better, to help me plan better and execute faster, to find errors faster, to automate easier and to be better at what I do. Bring a pen and paper - you’ll need them!

20ToolsAndTipsOredev.mp4

[Top 20 tools and tips that make me a better developer - Roy Osherove](https://vimeo.com/17155992) from [Øredev](https://vimeo.com/user2649908) on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/).

Recorded 2010-11-12 at Øredev - [oredev.org](http://www.oredev.org/)

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## More in Oredev

[All posts in Oredev](https://osherove.com/videos/category/oredev)

- Feb 6, 2011

    ### [How to do test reviews](https://osherove.com/videos/2011/2/6/how-to-do-test-reviews.html)

- Dec 7, 2010

    ### [Let's Play TDD with James Shore](https://osherove.com/videos/2010/12/7/lets-play-tdd-with-james-shore.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/