Archive for the 'Tools for Developers' Category

Borland Delphi personal editon 6.0, Also free!

January 28th, 2007

What’s this I hear . . .
It seems that even Borland has been giving away the personal edition of it’s Delphi IDE for free.
I found the link at the how to build page for wxDev-cpp.
And so I learn that Dev-Cpp, the internets most famous Open-Source C++ IDE is itself not written in C++ !!! […]

The Yahoo Developer Network

November 16th, 2006

I was hunting for for an JavaScript auto-completion script when I stumbled across this:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
Seems to be in fashion for large web companies to go open-source these days. Yahoo has provided its UI library for download - open-source under a a BSD compatible license.
Infact, there seems to be quite a lot on the rest of the […]

Writing extensions for Firefox

November 5th, 2006

A couple of tutorials:
. Building an Extension - Mozilla Development Center
. Roachfiend >> How to create Firefox extensions

Minix 3.

May 19th, 2006

Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum’s Microkernel OS - Minix - which was originally designed purely as an educational tool, is now being converted into a usable OS.
From the website:
MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for […]

Commandline compiler interface for WebSpeed.

April 10th, 2006

I’ve written a small c++ that allows me to compile webspeed programs straight from within the open-source text-editor - syn. Screenshot of the prog “in action” is to the left.
If there’s any intrest for this from my co-workers, I’ll probably be writing an installer for this sometime within the next 2 months.
Webspeed Compiler Interface - […]

Visual Studio 2005 Express is free!

February 11th, 2006

And to think that all this time, Microsoft has been offering Visual Studio 2005 Express for free! If downloaded before Nov 6th, 2006, there’s no licencing fee.
Visual studio express is described as “Easy to learn tools for hobbyists, students and novice developers”.
FAQ says: We originally announced pricing of Visual Studio Express at US$49. We are […]