Beside business applications, I will also be looking developers’ softwares are tools. The term developer is use boardly to include not only programmers but also HTML designers, document writers, designers and other related functions.
Since these group of people are typically more savvy, my angle will be more of sharing and exploring ideas, tips and experiences. This is something new I’m trying.
First another quick round up of free softwares that I am using and where the commercial strongholds are still to be broken.
| Category | Currently using | Free? | Open Source? | Alternative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programming | PHP | Y | Y | |
| Programming | Perl | Y | Y | |
| Programming | Ruby | Y | Y | |
| Version control | SVN | Y | Y | |
| Version control client | TortoiseSVN | Y | Y | |
| Code editor | Vim | Y | Y | |
| SSH | Putty | Y | Y | |
| SFTP/FTP | Filezilla | Y | Y | |
| IDE | Eclipse | Y | Y | |
| Webserver | Apache | Y | Y | |
| Webserver package | XAMPP | Y | Y | |
| Compare/merging | Winmerge | Y | Y | |
| Design IDE | Dreamweaver | N | N | Nvu |
| Photo/Graphics | Gimp | Y | Y |
Anything else I missed?
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