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Part 1 – Developer tools

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Type of APP

Open Source Solution

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IDE

Eclipse

http://www.eclipse.org/

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To quote from the eclipse wiki – “Eclipse means a lot of different things to different people. To some Eclipse is a free, state-of-the-art Java development environment. To others, Eclipse is a flexible environment to experiment with new computer languages or extensions to existing languages.”

Written in Java, and available for Mac OS, Windows in addition to many others, this is the most popular multi-language IDE with extensive community support. Truly amazing!

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Web Dev Editor / IDE

Bluefish

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl

bluefish

A lightweight editor/IDE for Linux that supports multiple documents, tons of wizards and allows creation of dynamic web sites.

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C/C++ IDE

Anjuta

http://anjuta.sourceforge.net

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A full featured User Friendly C++ oriented IDE for GNU/Linux. Works great with GLADE

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UI Designer

Glade

http://glade.gnome.org

glade

A a RAD (rapid application development) tool used to create GTK+/GNOME WYSIWYG graphical user interfaces. Can work with / even be embedded into Anjuta.

In the next part, we’ll look at one of my favorite topics for leveraging Open Source – Content Management. Stay tuned.

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