Winds of change are blowing through our computers at Bits And Pixels...
Mozilla FireFox web browser
Dia diagramming tool (Windows installer)
FoxServ (Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc. single-click installer for Windows)
DBDesigner 4 (visual database design tool)
Eclipse (universal IDE)
NNTP//RSS (use your newsreader to read RSS feeds).
RealVNC (open-source remote control software -- run through an SSL tunnel for security.)
Putty (& Puttygen, Pageant, etc.; SSH)
TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN (excellent Windows Explorer shell integration for CVS and Subversion)
Apache Tomcat
OpenAMF (J2EE) and AMFPHP (PHP)
CSDiff by Component Software.
GRC.com security apps (Shields Up! and LeakTest)
No! Flash - A great tool for temporarily disabling Flash in IE
MM-Exporter (for backing up DW, Flash & Contribute settings & sites)
Iceows (great unzip utility)
Action Script Viewer (ASV)
PrimalScript
As Soon As Present (ASAP)
Trend Micro Internet Security (previously called PC-cillin; anti-virus, firewall, etc.)
Tiny Firewall (best darn software firewall there is -- keep Trend Micro's one on the "Low" setting when using both.)
Sonic Foundry (now, unfortunately, Sony) Sound Forge, Acid & Vegas Video
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Pro
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Pro
Macromedia Flex :)
The Migration time is here again! article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
We're finally switching over from Microsoft Office and Outlook to Open Office, Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Calendar. Unfortunately, the OS of choice remains Windows XP since Flash MX 2004 doesn't run flawlessly on Wine/CrossOver yet (then again, Flash MX 2004 doesn't run flawlessly on Windows either so maybe there isn't too much to worry about!) :P
In an effort to embrace open source a little better, we're also going to be saying goodbye to our Mac server, which we've been using for CVS, in favor of a Linux server (this will coincide with a switch from CVS to Subversion in the coming days.)
Other great open source software that we're currently using:
Not open source, but great free applications:
Not free but worth-every-penny, joy-to-use applications:
Software we use because we have to:
Software we'd like to use but can't afford:
This list is definitely not meant to be exhaustive (you only realize the wealth of software that goes into a development company when you start to take careful inventory) and more links and applications may be listed here in the future.
The Migration time is here again! article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
Another noteworthy app to add to the list is FileZilla – http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/. It’s an open-source FTP client that I use quite frequently.
Thanks, Darron — I’ll definitely check it out (I’ve been looking for a good FTP client for those times that Dreamweaver’s one flakes out.)
If anyone else has suggestions, please feel free to add them to the comments here.