Must-have open source/freeware application lineup

by Tom 3. December 2004 05:30

Here at core, I use several freeware/open source tools and resources to make my life easier, and best of all, they are all free to use... A line-up :

Sauce Reader

This is currently (according to my opinion) simply the best RSS-reader available.
It is simple and works as expected with support for ATOM/RSS/RSS2.
If you need to track a lot of websites for updates, this is one of the most time saving assets you can have at this moment.
link

DasBlog

The blogging engine I am currently using (you are probably looking at it right now). Very versatile and easy to setup.
link

Smart FTP

Simply the best FTP-client you can get
link

AntiVir Personal Edition

Free Anti virus that works (even the updates)
link

LavaSoft Ad-Aware Personal edition

Remove all trojans/dialers/unwanted stuff from your pc
link

Picasa

Manage your photographs on your pc with a tool by google
link

SharpDevelop

An open source .NET IDE (no ASP.NET)
link

Visual C# Express Beta

A c# editor from Microsoft
link

TestDriven.Net

Currently THE plug in for test driven development in .NET
link

LUA

The best embeddable scripting language. I still have to embed it myself, but that is another story ...
link

InnoSetup

Create installation packages easily.
link

Werkzeug1

Demo tool for creating top of the notch graphical presentations. Quite complicated, but also very powerful. I need some more time to dive in to this...
link

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Tom Janssens is an independent freelance ICT consultant that has been "into computers" ever since the age of 7.

Typing source code from a book evolved into exploring the limits of coding in procedural, assembly and object-oriented languages.
As he matured in software coding, he started focussing on the problems surrounding software development, and learned that software development is usually about people and interactions first, and about technology second.

Due to his diverse track record he gained insights in a lot of aspects of the software development process. Currently his main focus is on strategic ICT advice, lean product/project development and improving the software development process and architecture.

He avoids ivory-tower-approaches by applying and verifying the applicability of the latest tech buzz in software experiments.

He is also the founder of the following LinkedIn groups:

CQRS Professional
BDD Professional
Asp.Net MVC professional

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