My favourite applications

The following is a list of applications which I use and recommend to others.

Items which are scored out have fallen out of use but are still worth recommending.
Italicised items are new entries.

by Ali Craigmile, 16/08/2010

Code editors

I'm not officially a web developer any more, but I still dabble...

• Editplus
• Vim
• Eclipse + EPIC + Subclipse
• Tortoise SVN
• svn
• Confluence
• Jira
• phpMyAdmin
• Trac
• cvs

Programming languages

• Perl 5
• Javascript
• XHTML 1.0
• CSS 3
• SQL (MySQL 4/5 dialect)
• XML + XSLT + XSD + DTD
• Java 1.5
• HTML 3 / 4
• CSS 2

Shells

• bash
• tcsh

Communications

• Microsoft Outlook 2003
• Evolution
• Windows Messenger
• Skype
• Twitdroyd
• Pine

Media players

• Spotify
• VLC

Web browsers

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer

Operating systems

• Windows XP
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (the Lucid Lynx)
• CentOS 4 / 5
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5
• Android 2.2 (Froyo)
• MacOS 10.4 (Tiger)

Utilities

• Putty
• Gnome Terminal
• VMWare Player
• rsync
• screen
• Docky

Servers

Web servers

• Apache 2.2 + mod_include + mod_perl + mod_proxy + mod_php + mod_ssl
• Tomcat
• Apache 2.0
• Apache 1.3

Others servers

• Samba
• OpenSSH
• MySQL 4.x / 5.x
• armegatrond

Graphic manipulations

• GIMP
• Microsoft Paint
• Adobe Photoshop

Fonts

• Envy Code R preview #7
• Calibri
• Georgia
• Arial
• Gill Sans
• Verdana
• Trebuchet MS
• Tahoma

© 2010 Ali Craigmile.