\nTime for a round-up of the Free and\/or Open Source tools I've been using on my work laptop.\n<\/p>\n
\n1. Eclipse 3.3<\/a> (IDE, Java and generic)\n<\/p>\n \nI've been dipping into various versions of Eclipse for Java \n2. Afae Plugin for Eclipse<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n"Afae" stands for "Another Freebooter's All-purpose Editor". It \n3. DiffMerge<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nI've mentioned this before<\/a>. \n4. AstroGrep<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nI have long ago given up on making Windows Search<\/a> Time for a round-up of the Free and\/or Open Source tools I've been using on my work laptop. 1. Eclipse 3.3 (IDE, Java and generic) I've been dipping into various versions of Eclipse for Java development for years. Its plugin architecture is brilliant (see below). Out of the box it handles Java development as sweetly as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndevelopment for years. Its plugin architecture is brilliant (see
\nbelow). Out of the box it handles Java development as sweetly as any
\n"Professional" edition out there. It also has a built-in editor for Ant
\nbuild files (an XML dialect) which I'm finding particularly handy right
\nnow. One feature I really appreciate is the ability to create a
\n"generic" project that basically just lists all the files in a
\ndirectory, regardless of what type of file they are. Very handy for my
\ncurrent work which involves a series of versioned directories
\ncontaining various flavors of text files. Which brings me to:\n<\/p>\n
\ndoesn't appear to be under active development and has stalled at
\nversion 0.9, but don't let that stop you from using it. It adds a TextMate<\/a>-flavored
\ntext editor to Eclipse that allows me to edit .sh, .bat, .sql, and
\nother types of files in syntax-colored goodness. It has a bunch of
\nother features that I'm not using (such as a "post to blog" button on
\nthe toolbar?) but I've found the text editing to be solid.\n<\/p>\n
\nSince then it is up to version 3.1 but it is still free, and although
\nother file comparison tools probably have more features, I've grown to
\nlike this one.\n<\/p>\n
\nfind anything on my file system. How I long for the File Manager applet
\nin FoxPro for DOS 2.0. That thing was fast. AstroGrep is a GREP utility
\nfor Windows, with a simple UI on top. It's fast, and I can search the
\ncontents of text file with regular expressions<\/a>. On my latest project I have found it invaluable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"