Things on the Development server

• A web server
• A script to migrate from dev to test
• A script to migrate test to production
• a script to backup your svn to S3 or similar offsite backup storage
• a good text editor
• sed, awk and ruby for the really hard scripts
• postmortem debugging tools, for Windows that is:
  
  • umdh (for memory leaks)
  • drwtsn32 (for crashes),
  • cdb (to get minidumps from hung apps),
  • windbg (to inspect the minidumps).