My Daily Work – One Click Experience

Every developer has his own favourite softwares or tools that used daily when working.
This post simply remainder for myself or anybody who read this, that you can do something make our life few clicks more easier.

The idea was simple: How to open you favourite tools or software(such as IDEs, texteditors, browsers and perhaps instant messengers)
in one click. Note that the example is for machine that run windows only .

First is to list out what is your favourite tools for work, here are mine( I am a Java developer):

• Eclipse (Java IDE)
• Firefox (Web browser)
• Sublime (A nice black text editor)
• Oracle SQL Developer
• Yahoo Messenger

Now, how to make all of this things run in one click is easy, batch file!

1. Create a batch file on your Desktop, lets call it “work.bat”
2. Open it with your favourite text editor
3. Locate each of your tools mentioned above for their path
4. Save the file.

As for me the complete batch file would look like this:

[cmd]
@echo off

start /d "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox" firefox.exe
start /d "C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger" YahooMessenger.exe
start /d "D:\Djaka\Java\ecplipse-ide\eclipse-jee-helios" eclipse.exe
start /d "D:\Djaka\Software\sqldeveloper" sqldeveloper.exe
start /d "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text" sublimetext.exe
start /d "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer" iexplore.exe

[/cmd]
With this file you can put it on :
- The Windows Task Scheduler, which will open all the tools or applications that listed in a certain hours
- Desktop, for nice one click experience

Ok, Done.