Since software developers are typically people in the know and are more savvy, my angle will be more of sharing and exploring ideas, tips and experiences. This is something new I’m trying.
First a quick round up of free softwares I am using and where the strong holds 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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