Free Developer Software

Author: Kasper B. Graversen, 15/07/08
Keywords: Free Software
Abstract: This is the ultimate collection of the best free software for developers.
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Free Developer Software

Development

JEdit

Free editor written in Java. Has a ton of plugins and a very nice macro record/replay fascility (stores macros as java code which you can then easily modify before replay). Has superb regular expression support, support many encodings, discovers encodings, nice syntax highlight, text folding, and block select (copy paste)!.

http://jedit.org/

Project Management

Gantt Project

Gantt diagrams are indispensablein any project management plan. GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool. Major features include: * Task hierarchy and dependencies * Gantt chart * Resource load chart * Generation of PERT chart * PDF and HTML reports * MS Project import/export * WebDAV based groupwork

http://ganttproject.biz/

Web services / SOA / Web Development

Live HTTP headers

A plugin for Firefox. It captures all requests and responses. Good for debuging web applications with virtually no setup.

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

SoapUI

Probably the best software for testing your web services. You can easily import WSDL files, fire request and see responses. You can even record repeatable tests consisting of sequences of request-responses. Easy and intuitive!

http://www.soapui.org/

Infrastructure

CDBurnerXP

Everyone needs to do a backup now and again. I use CDBurnerXP. It's a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray, HD-DVDs and ISOs (including creating ISO's). Everyone, even companies, can use it for free.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

FileZilla

A wonderful free FTP/SFTP/SSH/SSH2 file transfer client with a wealth of features. Various servers, protocols, multiple concurrent transfer connection. etc. Another cool feature is that it works directly of your memory stick!

http://filezilla-project.org/



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