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JAVA:
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Eclipse |
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This is great IDE for JAVA (and most popular one) it is free with great
editor, with great plugin support. There is various plugins that makes writing
and editing of JAVA code very easy. Eclipse can be also as IDE for other
programming languages, C++, PHP ... |
| JDeveloper |
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Oracle has made excellent Java IDE. JDeveloper is only
part of the huge software package called Oracle Developer Suite. This software
package has countless helper tools for software development. It really represents
"all the developer needs" in one single package. JDeveloper has great support for
graphical (form) editing, great database interface and perfect code editor. This
Java IDE is surely must to have tool for Java programming.
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| InteliIdea |
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| JEdit |
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| Forte for Java |
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| Kawa |
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PHP/My SQL:
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Maguma Studio |
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This is best IDE for PHP that I have ever used.
It has great editor, it is user friendly IDE and most important it has
external previewer so you can see how your page is going to be displayed
on server. It comes in two packages free and commercial versions. Let me
just say that free version is excellent, imagine the commercial version ... |
| PHP Coder Pro |
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| Blue Fish |
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This free tool is available in Linux and Windows OS.
It has on click development designer. |
| PHP My Admin |
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Great web tool for MySQL database management, it is
well tested tool with lot of MySQL functionality. It is nice to have tool
during testing phase |
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C++:
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Visual C++ |
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Visual Studio complete package for software development
is supports various number of programming languages. It is IDE for Visual Basic,
Visual Fox, Visual C++, C# and others. Visual C++ concept is based upon specific
class libraries (for Windows only) so this is not my choice for developing
applications. Besides this IDE is commercial, so I think there is better
solutions available. |
| MFC |
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Microsoft Foundation Library (MFC) is Microsoft library for Visual C++ support
that includes various class implementation that should make C++ friendlier.
Great disadvantage is that this class library makes Visual C++ programs unporable.
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| C++ Builder |
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This is similar solution like Visual Studio. There is
also predefined set of library that is used for software development. But
this solution is slightly better designed (class library is better), also
this IDE is very similar to Delphi, so it is easier for the programmer to switch
to Delphi programming if needed. This is also commercial IDE. |
| K Develop 3.0 |
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This is my favorite IDE for C++. First it is under GPL license,
text editor is much better then Visual Studio's for example (it is user friendlier)
It is easy configurable, and it makes no assumptions like VS are. Also it has
many visual tools for support (for example QT designer) so even it is free
it can stand side by side with any IDE for C++. Also it can be mentioned that
KDevelop can be used as IDE for other languages (for example PHP) |
| Qt Designer |
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Great tool for Form design, it is very simple and efficient. So GUI design
is made easier, it can be used like plugin in KDevelop. It is free for
non-commercial usage. |
| FOX (GUI library) |
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This is free GUI library for C++, it does not have easy to use graphical
support (like QT for example), but with little practice it can be used to make
nice GUI applications, it is written in C++ standard so it is portable on other
platforms. This is great choice if you want to make portable GUI applications. |
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HTML/ XML/ JavaScript
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Front Page |
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This is microsoft HTML editor. It is very easy to use, it is commercial.
Great disadvantage of this editor is that it adds a lot of "garbage" code in
the code, also making assumptions that the user would use IE as a browser.
This code often has troubles to use with other browsers (Opera, FireFox, Konqueor ...) |
| HTML Kit |
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Easy to use HTML editor, it has great options! |
| HTML Builder |
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This is also great tool for HTML editing. |
| Top Style |
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Great CSS editor! |
| Scream |
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| Quanta plus |
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This is free HTML editor, available for Linux platform,
it is very good editor with great help for easy HTML code writing and editing. |
| Mozilla Composer |
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This is part of FireFox Mozilla software package.
This editor has very good capabilities for code editing in text mode or in object mode. |