Software Tools

Development Environments

• Eclipse IDE
  • Blue Sky - Web services development
  • Quantum - Database access plugin
  • Eclipse Perl Integration - make sure to install PadWalker; cygwin perl will not run or debug from my Epic 0.6.36 install; use ActiveState perl
  • Microchip PIC IDE
  • PHP Eclipse IDE
• Notepad++
  • NPPFTP - FTP and SFTP from inside Notepad++
  • RegEx Helper - Test Regular Expressions
  • Compare - Diff buffers
• WinCVS
• cygwin
  • Windows Tips for cygwin
• WEB Debugging
  • firebug plugin for Firefox
  • Debug and tune applications on the fly with Firebug

Resources

Nerd Books - Online and local to Dallas book store
Autotools Tutorial - Excellent, complete (i.e. very long) tutorial on the GNU autotools
MSAgent Installation and vbscripting

Unix Daemons in Perl