1. Mac
   
2. TextMate - What a great tool! Reason enough to own a Mac.
   
3. Intellij - Version 8 is looking good.
4. Groovy - This is becoming my favorite tool.
   
5. Grails
   
6. git - It is replacing cvs and subversion.
   
7. gradle - replacing ant and maven
8. hudson - looking to see if it replaces cruise control.
9. Fusion - developing C# is more fun on a Mac.
10. Spring 2.5 MVC - If you can't do Grails... this is the way to do it.
    

Tools I'm looking forward to in 2009

1. Clojure - Interesting Language... I know very little at this point.
   
2. F# - Probably the most interesting language on the .Net platform.
3. Spring 3 and what I call ADD or Annotated Driven Development :)
   

Tools That need some TLC

1. I would like to see a refresh on xplanner - This would be a great candidate for Grails.