Ruby on Rails is an Open source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code over convention over configuration.

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.

FileHamster is a version tracking application for developers, graphic artists and other content creators that frequently modify existing files.

FileHamster provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified. It also enables you to store notes about the changes that have been made, allowing you to quickly locate a specific revision or provide a detailed account of the work you've done on a project.

It has many features, but is very easy to use and does not require any technical expertise - just point it to the directory or file you want to monitor/backup and it will do the rest.

PSPad is a freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems,

PSPad is useful for people who:

* work with various programming environments
* like highlighted syntax in their source code
* need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor
* are looking for a tool that handles plain text
* want to save time - PSPad offers rich text formating functions
* need a tool that offers user extension capabilities

Toolbar Paint is specifically targeted at developers who wish to design their own toolbar button graphics.

Toolbar paint can open toolbar bitmaps with up to 64 buttons and allows you to visually design a toolbar using a wide selection of editing tools. It also includes image manipulation tools to replace colors, apply gradients and more. The toolbar graphics can be saved as 16 color, 256 color, 24 or 32 bit bitmaps to incorporate in your application. A tiny and powerful editor it is written entirely in assembler. Additional plug-ins are available that let you save a button as an icon file, add additional effects, save the entire toolbar to an animated icon and more

XVI32 is a freeware hex editor running under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. The name XVI32 is derived from XVI, the roman notation for the number 16. XVI32 and all of its components are developed by myself (except for RxPopupMenu from RxLib which I'm using since version 1.6).

The current release 2.51 is available since August 2, 2003. It comes with a complete online help and requires only 975 KB of hard disk space. There is no setup program needed - just unzip the downloaded archive to your hard disk! XVI32 doesn't write any data to your registry.

Currently, XVI32 is downloaded over 18,000 times per month from my homepage (i.e. without mirrors, freeware archives etc.). A more detailed statistic is also available as well as a list of the domains from where XVI32 was downloaded during January, 2003. Between April 15, 2000 (first release) and January 31, 2003 XVI32 has been downloaded 258,666 times from my homepage. Thank you!

Even people at Microsoft ™ do use XVI32! If you don't believe me, look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/835840/EN-GB/.

VIM

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
What Vim Is Not?

Vim isn't an editor designed to hold its users' hands. It is a tool, the use of which must be learned.

Vim isn't a word processor. Although it can display text with various forms of highlighting and formatting, it isn't there to provide WYSIWYG editing of typeset documents. (It is great for editing TeX, though.)
Vim's License

Vim is charityware. Its license is GPL-compatible, so it's distributed freely, but we ask that if you find it useful you make a donation to help children in Uganda through the ICCF. The full license text can be found in the documentation. More information about charityware on Charity-ware.org.

Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows.

This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk).

While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java. Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.

Other features include undo/redo, user tools, macros, spell checker and much, much more.

JEXT Source Code editor

Jext was created to support Java programming language. But nowadays it can edit many other types of source codes. Among them you'll find C, C++, C#, ASP, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, TeX, XHTML, XSLT, Eiffel, JSP... Besides it provides advanced features to ease you work. Manage your projects with the bookmarks tool, categorize your opened files through workspaces, directly open zipped files, get a file straight from the Internet, mail your source code, executes system commands within the internal console, type faster thanks to HyperTyper and to the customizable code snippets library, add new features with plugins, discover the advanced editing capabilities, use the internal Python interpreter... Jext meets all your needs ! Developers will also appreciate the open architecture of Jext. Based on GPLed libraries, internal Python interpreter and many XML files, improving Jext is an easy job. You can even write your own plugins (in Python or Java).

IDEs - C++ and C

CodeBlocks Studio

* Open Source! GPL2, no hidden costs.
* Cross-platform. Runs on Linux or Windows (uses wxWidgets).
* Made in GNU C++. No interpreted languages or proprietary libs needed.
* Comes in two presentations: Standalone, and MinGW bundle
* Devpack support (optional)
* Extensible through plugins (SDK available in the downloads section)

NetBeans IDE

The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. The IDE runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and the MacOS. It is easy to install and use straight out of the box. The NetBeans IDE provides developers with all the tools they need to create professional cross-platform desktop, enterprise, web and mobile applications.

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform.

Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3d games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. What is best, is the fact that Game Maker can be used free of charge.

You can do anything you want with the games you produce, you can even sell them! Also, if you register your copy of Game Maker, you can unlock extra functions, which extend the capabilities of the program. Game Maker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started.

xHarbour

"xHarbour (extended Harbour) was started by Ron Pinkas late 2001 as a fork off of the Harbour Project (see below) in which he was one of the leading developers. xHarbour was established to provide a more aggressive alternative to the conservative style of development in the Harbour Project"

The Harbour Project was launched in December 1999 by Antonio Linares. Naturally, the developers of the Harbour Project have contributed large amounts to xHarbour, since xHarbour originated from the Harbour code base. You can find a list of those developers at SourceForge. The Harbour Project is still active, too - and some developers work on both projects.

In its short life, xHarbour already established itself as the favorite tool of the xbased programmer in general, and has attracted many loyal users.
Why two Projects?

Ron started the project with this sentence [source: sourceforge ]:

"As a result of some conflicts regarding current and future development direction, xHarbour will offer an alternative for those interested in a more aggressive & less conservative approach."

Harbour is a free software compiler for the xBase superset language often referred to as Clipper (the language that is implemented by the compiler CA-Clipper).

Harbour is a cross platform compiler and is known to compile and run on MS-DOS, MS-Windows, OS/2, GNU/Linux and Mac OSX.

The main advantage Harbour has over other Clipper compilers is that it is free software. Harbour also attempts to remove some of the limits imposed by the base implementation but the extent of this will depend on your chosen platform.

Most importantly, try Harbour for yourself, decide for yourself why it has advantages for you.

MinGW:

A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs.

Scite - A free source code editor for Win32 and x

Scite is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration programs as well as SciTE and Scintilla, themselves.

SciTE is currently available for Intel Win32 and Linux compatible operating systems with GTK+. It has been run on Windows 95, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and on Red Hat Linux 8 and 9 with GTK+ 1.2 and 2.0. Here is a screenshot of SciTE.

On Windows, there is a companion application Filerx which provides project management and macro features to SciTE.

Notepad++

Is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence. This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there’s no guarantee that I’ll implement it.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language.

Metapad Source Code Editor

Once upon a time, one of the most useful programs for everyday use was known as Microsoft Notepad. I realized that Notepad was quite powerful and did a lot of what I wanted in a simple text editor. Yet I found the user interface to be unlike most 32-bit Windows applications and actually quite poor...

metapad is a small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra features.

It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more.

AutoIt was initially designed for PC "roll out" situations to reliably configure thousands of PCs, but with the arrival of v3 it has become a powerful language able to cope with most scripting needs. AutoIt can:

* Provide a general-purpose scripting language for all Windows versions
* Simulate keystrokes (supports most keyboard layouts)
* Simulate mouse movements and clicks
* Move, resize and manipulate windows
* Interact directly with "controls" on a window (set/get text from edit controls, check boxes and radio buttons, select items in drop-down lists, etc.)
* Create complex user interfaces (GUIs)
* Work with the clipboard to cut/paste text items
* Provide a scriptable RunAs function for Windows 2000/XP/2003

Described by SFs Xircon as 'a stunning scripting language that is compilable'

Suneido For Database Software Developers

Suneido™ is a complete, integrated application platform - a system for developing and deploying applications without the frustrations of integrating multiple different products. Suneido incorporates an object-oriented programming language, client-server relational database software, and application frameworks and components. It includes the integrated development environment (IDE) used to create applications as well as the client and server required to run applications across networks. Suneido is Open Source - it is provided free, with complete source code.

Our mission is to provide a simple, open, lightweight, industrial strength alternative to large, complex, expensive, closed application technologies such as Visual Basic, Access, FoxPro, Delphi, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Suneido currently runs on Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, 2003, and XP. A Linux version is planned

MySQL Enterprise subscription is the most comprehensive offering of MySQL database software, services and support to ensure your business achieves the highest levels of reliability, security, and uptime. MySQL Enterprise includes:
MySQL Enterprise Server

The MySQL Enterprise Server 5.0 software is the most reliable, secure and up-to-date version of the world's most popular open source database for cost-effectively delivering E-commerce, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), and multi-terabyte Data Warehousing applications. Users also receive monthly rapid updates and quarterly service packs with the latest bug fixes of MySQL Enterprise Server.

The MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory Service provides developers, DBAs, and SysAdmins with a "Virtual DBA Assistant" to enforce MySQL recommended best practices. The Advisors provide tailored recommendations that help you eliminate security vulnerabilities, improve replication, optimize performance, and more.

MySQL Production Support enables you to get your toughest technical questions answered quickly. Plus, with Consultative Support included with MySQL Enterprise Platinum, the MySQL Support Team will advise you on how to properly design and tune your MySQL servers, schema, queries, and replication set-up for better performance.

UltraVNC Remote Computer Support Software

UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location.

If you provide computer support, you can easy access your customer's computers from anywhere in the world and resolve helpdesk issues remotely ! With addons like SingleClick your customers don't even have to pre-install software or execute complex procedures to get remote helpdesk support.

Key features: FileTransfer, VideoDriver, optional EncryptionPlugins, MSLogon, TextChat, ViewerToolbar, JavaViewer with FileTransfer, as well as Autoscaling and ServerSideScaling, Multiple-Monitors-support, Repeater/Proxy-support, AutoReconnection, good performances and tons of other functionalities.

Addons: Repeater, SingleClick generator and NATtoNAT connectors, that help you to easily handle the most complex connection situations.

UltraVNC runs under Windows™ operating systems (95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003...). Its embedded JavaViewer allows you to connect (and make File transfers) from a simple Web Browser on any Operating system supporting Java™ (Linux, Mac OS...) to an UltraVNC server.

Who should use UltraVNC?

Anyone who needs to support local or remote Windows users will find UltraVNC a must-have tool. It was specifically designed to answer the needs of:

* Help desk (Internal & External)
* IT departments
* Remote Computer Support
* Remote Computer Access
* Remote demonstration
* eLearning, classroom control
* Home users that want to help their relatives and friends, or access their home PC from work or cybercafés

UltraVNC is Free and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.

Wire Shark

Sniffing Problems A Mile Away.....

Wireshark's powerful features make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide.

Wireshark was written by an international group of networking experts, and is an example of the power of open source. It runs on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and other platforms.

Advanced IP Scanner

Advanced IP Scanner is a fast, robust and easy-to-use LAN scanner for Windows.

It easily lets you have various types of information about local network computers in a few seconds! It gives you one-click access to many useful functions - remote shutdown and wake up, Radmin integration and more! Powered with multithread scan technology, this program can scan hundreds computers per second, allowing you to scan 'C' or even 'B' class network even from your modem connection.