Best Free Tools for Programmers
Specialized tools and tutorials, select the language: |
| Set of free RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools by Borland for several programming languages: C++, C#, Pascal, Assembler. May be used to build commercial products. | |
| IDE for several languages including Java and PHP with a built-in server. (Java) | |
| Multi-languages IDE to integrate various programming tools. You can add other tools. (Java) | |
| XML based toolkit for graphical user interface (GUI). Displayed by Firefox or standalone with the XulRunner runtime. Hard to master. (All systems) | |
| Markup language for user interfaces design, easier than XUL. The site provide a Silverlight tutorial. See also the XAML card. (Win/Lin). | |
| GUI widely used for applications. (Win/Lin) | A library for game programming using all resources (sound, video, devices) of the computer, for any language, any OS. Use OpenGL, DirectX. (Win/Lin). | Complete GUI. (Win/Linux). Formerly wxWindows. | Cross-platform user interface framework. Under LGPL license. (Win/Lin/Mac/Mobiles). An IDE, QtCreator is provided to build applications. |
| This GUI library is a wrapper to OpenGL and convenient for graphic programs. | |
Utilities for Programmers |
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| Complete installer, can add your program on the desktop, provides an uninstaller for your program, into the archive that is bigger than those of above. Open source. | |
| Archive manager. Can build, extract, convert
ZIP, BZ2, TAR, GZ, CAB archives and the new 7z format. Manages also CD
images Info-Zip is open source and portable. It comes with the WizZ graphical interface. See the list of free archivers. |
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| Produces a HTML/Latex/XML/Man documentation from source files. | |
| Compresses binary executables and shrink them up to 30%.(Win/Lin) | |
| Give to old programs the look of new Windows XP applications. (Win Vista/XP) | |
| XML based replacement for make and makefiles. (PHP) | |
Graphical Tools |
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| Drawing program similar to Photoshop, easier to use than Gimp. Supports layers and a lot of filters. Has graph tools. (Win). Download. |
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| Image viewer, recognize almost any format plus video ones: Mpeg, Divx (Win/Lin) | |
| Vectorial graphical editor allowing to make SVG files (Win/Lin). | |
| Screen capture. Delimits a windows or a region.(Win) | |
| Video builder : make your own videos quickly in a comic style. | |
| Landscape editor with photographic quality. | |
Expert level
| Drawing program, open source replacement for Photoshop. Despite that it is bugged under Windows has interesting features. (Windows / Linux) | |
| 3d visualization tool, open source. (Win/Lin). | |
| Most powerful 3D ray tracer. Programming required. (Win/Lin) | |
| 3d image maker. |
Web Programming |
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| Test HTML page for malformed code. | |
| Tool to help in creating a blog or even any website. (PHP and MySQL) | |
| Small Ajax and Gears framework with the main functions: load XML, text or HTML contents, post a text or command to the server. | |
| Check a website for broken links. (PHP). See also Xenu's link (Win) | |
| Modern big websites are built with a CMS (Content Management System) as Joomla, Drupal, Xoops for portails, phpBB or punBB for forums, Wordpress for blogs. | |
| The PHP interpreter and the tutorial. More tools for PHP on the PHP card... | |
Editors (Text, HTML, XML) |
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| Wysiwyg HTML editor. (Win/Lin/Mac). | |
| HTML editor and browser of the W2C, compatible with the standards. (Win/Lin/Mac). | |
| Complete editor for any programming languages including HTML and XML. Internet features. Several foreign languages supported. (Win). | |
| Cross-platform tabbed code editor. Extensible with plugins. | |
| XML editor with sub-tree selector and validator. (Win) | |
| XML and XSLT editor and validator. (Win). | |
| Online RSS editor, build the feed of your site with a selection of articles. (All). Requires PHP 5. | |
| Perfect to write manuals with images, supports HTML and PDF. (Win/Lin/Mac). | |
More tools and infos on the HTML card. Languages may have specialized editors also. |
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Web Tools and Online Services |
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| Upload files on the net. (Win). For updating a website from local files, the command line FTP synchronizer is well suited. |
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| Check your web pages for validity, according to the HTML 4 standard. You can check also XML and CSS. | |
| Check your home page with several browsers and display it on the site for some times. | |
| Reports backlinks to each page, to the webmaster of the site only. | |
| Online interface with various tools to check a website. Extensible by adding new tabs from the setup panel. | |
| List of tools and services for webmasters. See also the tools from Google. | |
Tools for SQL Databases |
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| Database designer. (Win/Lin). | |
| Local server with MySQL and user interfaces to databases. (Win) | |
Other Tools |
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| Windows version of all Unix tools. (Win) | |
Documentations and Tutorials |
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| Lot of tutorials about HTML, XML, etc... ont the W3 consortium site. | |
| C++ tutorial with exercices. | |
| All Open GL tutorials. | |
| Complete tutorial on OpenGL with examples and sources for each compiler. | |
| Formats of files, sources and other resources for programmers. | |
| Fonts and tools. | |
| See at each programming language on top of this page for specific tutorials. | |
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