- IIS Enabled
For ASP.NET code and related bits.
Expecting IIS to own port 80 and Apache on 1080. - XAMPP (sourceforge) {7.1.7}
Provides a test environment for things that will live on ninecrows and related hosting locations.
Provides PHP but will likely use a free-standing MariaDB instance for persistence. - JDK () [Java SE 8u144]
Java support for free-standing Java work and to enable Android development. - Visual Studio 2015
Building windows tools in C++, C#, F# - Windows SDK (Windows 10 SDK)
Supplementary tools and libraries for building windows user mode applications. - MariaDB () [Maria DB 10.2]
MySQL without the Oracle tentacles. Open, scalable and in wide use. - SQL Server Lite/Express 2016
Sometimes a real commercial SQL engine is nice to have around. - MongoDB (Source) {3.4}
NoSQL database. Looks suitable for many things I’m likely to be playing with. - MongoDB Driver for .NET
I‘m sure there are others but this appears to be a reasonable open source driver. - Android Studio (Install) {2.3.3}
For developing phone and tablet apps. Handy to have when a larger system isn’t available. - 7Zip (Source and here)
Free and open source data compression/decompression - Chrome (Source)
The main browser I use these days. - Acrobat Reader
- Perl (ActiveState or here) {5.26.0}
- Python (3) (2) {3.6.2 and 2.7.13}
- TCL (Source) {8.6}
A simple, easy to use, embeddable scripting language that has been around for a long time. - CygWin {2.8.2}
The unix on windows package of note. Pretty complete set of unix-ish tools. - KDiff3 {0.9.98}
Graphical differencing tool. - Wix (Downloads)
Installer toolkit that helps build windows install packages. - WinDirStat (Downloads)
Directory usage viewer. Very helpful for cleanup of full hard drives. [hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/windirstat/code windirstat-code] - Git (Downloads)
This is the GIT source control tool used in so many places for distributed source code control. - Gnu Emacs
The one true text editor 🙂 - VirtualBox
VM Manager that is open source though unfortunately appears to be controlled by Oracle…
[svn co http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox] - Node (Source)
Light weight Javascript based web server. Looks very interesting for certain jobs. Uses the V8 javascript engine. - DOxygen
Documentation generator for environments where built in doc gen isn’t present. - CMake (Download)
Make maker. Used by a number of cross platform projects. - Virtual Clone Drive
ISO Image Mounter that is free and sometimes useful - Audacity (Downloads) (LAME add in for MP3 Source) (Installing)
Audio processing tool that is free and open source. - Blender (Getting Involved)
3D editor that is open source and freely available. - FileZilla
FTP manager - GIMP
Not photoshop image editor. One of these days I’ll learn GIMP better but for now my Photoshop license serves me well… - Three.js (Source)
WebGL front end library. - Process Explorer
More capable version of what task manager does.
The whole SysInternals tool set is useful. - DHCPSrv
- Eclipse
Common IDE for Java development and other environments. - XAMPP ()
Quick install of Apache/PHP/MySQL for most platforms. - Unity
- Unreal Engine/Epic (4.17.1)
Less interesting tools…