Software

From Null-pointer

Contents 1 Development Environment 1.1 Eclipse 1.2 Other IDEs 1.3 Checkout and build 1.4 Compile 2 Website Development 2.1 Infrastructure 2.2 Presentation 2.3 Brower plugins 2.3.1 IE 2.3.2 Firefox 3 VM and Linux 4 Productivity Tools 5 Pocket PC Software 6 Multimedia Software 7 Downloading Software 8 Backup software 9 See also

Development Environment

(all software is free)

Eclipse

• Eclipse - Java IDE (www)
  • Eclipse Web Tools Platform - J2EE development now part of Eclipse
  • Sysdeo Tomcat - Eclispe Plug-in: Tomcat Launcher
  • Subversive - Subversion (SVN) integration Update site
    • Subclipse - Alternate subversion integration Update site
  • Aptana RadRails- Ruby on rails Update site
  • Freemarker - Freemarker via JBoss
  • JD-Eclipse - Java Decomplier - Update site
  • Colorer take5 - a syntax highlighting and text parsing library, that provides services of text parsing in host editor systems in real-time and transforming results into colored text. Update site

Other IDEs

• Netbeans - www
• IntelliJ - www - Now my preferred IDE

Checkout and build

• Ant - Java-based build tool
• CVS - Concurrent Versions System
• TortoiseSVN - SVN Client
• TortoiseGit - GIT Client
  • msysgit - needed by tortoise git

Compile

• Java - Programming Language
• Jad - Java class file decomplier Update as of 1.5.6 no longer free for commercial use. Update original website no longer available
  • JD-Eclipse - Java Decomplier

Website Development

(all software is free)

Infrastructure

• Apache - HTTP Web Server
• Apache Tomcat - JSP servlet container
• mySql - Lightwight database
  • MySQL Workbench - MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL.
  • Toad for mySql - Toad is a powerful, low-overhead tool that makes database and application development faster and easier and simplifies day-to-day administration tasks.
  • PostgreSQL - powerful, open source object-relational database system.
• Jakarta Commons - Loads of useful libraries
• Webalizer - Web server log analysis.

Presentation

• Gallery - Web based photo album.
• phpBB - Feature rich message board.
• MoveableType - Blog publishing system
• MediaWiki - Wiki system
  • Restrict Pages - A patch to allow wiki pages to be restricted.
  • Parser functions - Allows 'if' tests.
  • Syntax highlight - Easy way to syntax highlight code inside mediawiki.
  • JamWiki - Java based wiki which attempts to feature match media wiki.

Brower plugins

IE

• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.
• ieHTTPHeaders display the HTTP Headers sent and received by Internet Explorer

Firefox

• See Firefox

• Firebug edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page
• Web Developer various web developer tools
• LiveHTTPHeaders HTTP headers
• Screengrab! screen capture tool for Firefox
  • Fireshot FireShot is a extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that captures, edits, annotates, organizes, exports and prints screenshots of your web pages.
• Selenium Web application testing system.

VM and Linux

(all software is free)

• VMPlayer 3 VM Player Download without registration
  • VM images VM's of free OS's
• Linux on Windows
• Cygwin/X X-Windows server for windows

Productivity Tools

• Winkey - Windows Key Mapper (Freeware). Update As of July 14, 2005; no longer available from the website. Does not work properly in Vista.
  • HotKeyBind. An alternative tool for binding hot keys, not as nice as Winkey, but works.
• SSH - SSH Client (free for non-commercial use). Update Lastest version is not free, use v3.2.9. preferred
  • Putty - SSH client; in beta (Freeware)
• FileZilla - free FTP solution (Freeware).
  • Cyberduck - free FTP/SFTP + other protocols (Freeware)(PC+Mac)
  • SmartFTP - FTP Client (free for non-commercial use). Update since July 2008; no longer free.
• 4NT - Powerful command line prompt/tool for windows (Shareware). preferred
  • There now have a free product called TCC-LE, which is better than cmd
    • UnxUtils - GNU utilities for Win32, to replace missing calls from free version of TCC-LE
• Tight VNC - VNC server and client (Freeware).
• TaskInfo - Process task manager and system information. (Shareware). preferred
  • Process Explorer - Process explorer from Microsoft sysinternals (Freeware)
• Wireshark - Network protocol analyzer (Freeware)
• Nmap - Network exploration (inc. port scanning) (Freeware).
• EditPlus - Advanced Text editor (syntax colouring etc) (Shareware). preferred
  • Notepad++ - Improved Text editor (Freeware-GPL).
  • Text Wrangler - Text editor (Freeware) (Mac)
• Winzip - Zip tool (Commercial)
  • 7-zip - Free file archiver with a high compression ratio (Freeware)
  • IZArc - Freeware archive utility (Freeware)

Pocket PC Software

• PocketBreeze - Places appointment and other information on the today screen in a usable and useful way (Shareware).
• Wisbar Advance 2 - Allows quick task switching, other task management features.(Shareware).

Multimedia Software

• Paint Shop Pro - Cheap graphics software (shareware)
  • GIMP - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program (Freeware) I really do not like it.
• Quicktime - Movie creation software (free, with a commerical "pro" version).
  • VLC media player - VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats
• Lightshot - A free lightweight screenshot tool (Freeware).

Downloading Software

• GetRight - Download manager and accelerator software (shareware).
• Azureus - BitTorrent client (free). Update now called Vuze

Backup software

• Retrospect - local back-up
• Mozy - remote back-up
• MyPhone - online Windows mobile back-up and "review" service service no longer available.

See also

• Freeware
• Shareware
• Boughtware