Saturday, June 9, 2007

Tools of the trade

These are the programs we are using in the development:

  • Windows XP
    • Originally installed on the laptops
  • Openoffice
    • Back office suite. For reading existing documentation (.doc) and creating new.
  • Gimp
    • Bitmap Image editing
  • GTK
    • Gnome toolkit. Required by Gimp.
  • InkScape
    • Vector graphics (logos) editing/creating
  • MySQL
    • Database for local development
  • Eclipse (www.eclipse.org)
    • Official IDE for this project
  • Tomcat 6 (http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi)
    • Java application server
  • Tomcat 5.5.23 (http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi)
    • Tomcat 6 is new and isn't integrated natively yet into eclipse...
  • Netbeans
    • Alternative IDE
  • TortoiseCVS
    • UI for CVS
  • CVS
    • Version controlling
  • Firefox
    • Standards are so good that Microsoft creates it's own. Because of that, web applications need to be tested in the most popular browsers.
  • 7-zip
    • Open source compressing utility
  • VM-Ware Server
    • For running Linux under windows
  • cgywin (http://www.cygwin.com/)
    • Running X applications remotelly
  • Ubuntu Linux 7
    • Just in case I get bored of blue screens of death
  • JDK 6 (www.java.sun.com)
    • Java development Kit, latest version.
  • Firebug (http://www.getfirebug.com/)
    • Real time CSS, JavaScript, HTML debbuger Firefox plug-in
  • Eclipse Tomcat launcher plug-in (http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html#A3)
    • Basically lets you control Tomcat from eclipse and enables debbuging. Tutorial on installing it : http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html#A3 or http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/comp/dsilver/2513/EclipseAndTomcatTutorial/
  • PUTTY
    • SSH and SCP client to connect to the network server
  • TextPad
    • For when you need a text editor that will just open your files whith no questioning.
  • WinSCP (http://winscp.net/)
    • For copying files easily between windows and the Linux server.
  • Azureus
    • For downloading torrents (like huge programs)
  • Google browser sync
    • Syncronize bookmarks and browser settings between different computers
  • Cute PDF Writer
    • Free PDF generator via print dialog
  • WinMerge
    • Compare files (Diff) and let you conciliate the changes.

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