Archive for February, 2010
TextWrangler
TextWrangler is a popular text editor for Mac OS X from Bare Bones Software. It was originally a commercial product, but (beginning with version 2.0) has become the freeware alternative to their flagship editor, BBEdit, and the successor to their previous freeware editor, BBEdit Lite. Like BBEdit, TextWrangler is not a word processor and so [...]
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TextPad is a text editor for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. First released in 1992, this software is currently in its fifth major version. It is produced by Helios Software Solutions. Features Key features include: the ability to maintain block indents automatic code indentation (see indent style) regular expression based search and replace, [...]
Read the rest...Coda (web development software)
Coda is a $99 commercial web development application for Mac OS X, developed by Panic. It was released on April 23, 2007. It won the 2007 Apple Design Award for Best User Experience. Concept and idea The concept for Coda came from the web team at Panic, who would have five or six different programs [...]
Read the rest...Eclipse (software)
Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an IDE and a plug-in system to extend it. It is written primarily in Java and can be used to develop applications in Java and, by means of the various plug-ins, in other languages as well, including C, C++, COBOL, Python, Perl, PHP, and others. The IDE [...]
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BBEdit is a proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software. It was originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6 and is now available for Mac OS X. BBEdit is marketed under the trademark slogan, “It doesn’t suck.” History The first version of the BBEdit was created as a “proof of concept” for a “bare [...]
Read the rest...Bluefish (text editor)
Bluefish is a web development editor focused towards development of dynamic websites. Bluefish supports development in (among others) HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, Javascript, Java, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python, Ruby, and shell. Bluefish is available on most platforms, including Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, and Windows. Native Windows support, however, is only [...]
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PSPad editor is a freeware text editor and source editor intended for use by programmers. First released in 2001, this software is produced by the single developer Jan Fiala for the Windows platform. PSPad has many software development-oriented features, such as syntax highlighting and hex editing, and is designed as a universal GUI for editing [...]
Read the rest...Scintilla (editing component)
Scintilla is an open source library that provides text-editing functions, with an emphasis on advanced features for source code editing. SciTE (cross-platform), Notepad++ (Windows) and Notepad2 (Windows) are standalone editors based on Scintilla. Features Scintilla supports many features to make code editing easier in addition to syntax highlighting. The highlighting method allows the use of [...]
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HTML-Kit is an HTML editor for Microsoft Windows made by chami.com. The application is a full-featured HTML editor designed to edit, format, validate, preview and publish web pages in HTML, XHTML and XML -languages. HTML-Kit is freeware, although extra features are available at a cost to registered users. An Alpha version, HTML-Kit Tools (previously named [...]
Read the rest...Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It can be used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET [...]
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