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I was thinking I should start small list with the utilities I use everyday. They are installed on my laptop, but what if I get a new one, or when I have to do a ‘re-install’.
Always running:

Trillian. Trillian™ is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. [...]

Today I upgraded my Wordpress installation to 2.1.2. So far I haven't seen any problems or issues. If you find anything, please let me know.

I have created several plug-ins for this product. Now Allround Automations is working on a new version of their product and this causes some plug-ins to stop working. I have fixed a bug in the 'Comment-Lines' plug-in and there is another problem with the 'Save Separate' plug-in, but that appears to be a problem with [...]

Until today I was under the impression that parameters in PL/SQL were unrestricted in size. That is only partially correct. I was playing around with a simple script to swap two variables without introducing a temporary variable (I know, completely useless, but fun to think about a bit).
I created the following package
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE [...]

Yesterday, I made a (beta) version available of a utility and a PL/SQL Developer plugin to access the code generated by Qcgu (CodeGen). The fun thing about these two apps is, that they share the same codebase. The plug-in uses the callback functions provided by PL/SQL Developer, while these functions have been implemented in a [...]