I do my work on both Linux/UNIX and Windows platforms. The nice thing about Linux is that the Linux distributions comes loaded with pretty much every utility that I need. Unlike Linux, to really be productive on Windows you need to get third party tools to be able to really make use of it. The reason why you see more Windows-related software here is simply because I had to dig around more to get Windows software than I do with Linux.

My Contributions

Open Source

• Gap Buffer - C++ source for gap-buffer implementation.

Jason's Contributions

Open Source

• Jason's OSS Projects- A collection of open source projects from Jason.

Programmer's Toolkit

Languages & Compilers

• C/C++
  • GNU GCC - Open source C/C++ compiler supported on so many platforms now that I can't list them on. There's even ports of it so that you can compile games to run on the GBA.
  • Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 [Windows] - Borland released their command line compile for free.
  • MingW [Windows] - Windows port of GNU GCC/G++ compiler. I often sees references to Bloodshed Dev-C++ which is an IDE built on top of its own MingW compiler.
  • Turbo C++ [DOS]
  • Turbo C 2.01 [DOS]
  • DJGPP [DOS] - 32bit C/C++ for DOS.
• Perl - One of the great scripting languages.
  • Activestate Perl - Win32 port of Perl.
• Java
  • Sun's Java Homepage
  • IBM's JDK (Windows and Linux JDK)
  • Jikes - Fast compiler for Java
  • Beanshell - Script language based on Java.
• Python & JPython
  • Activestate Python - Win32 port of Python
• Ruby - Object-oriented scripting language.
• Tcl/Tk
  • Activestate Tcl
• PHP - Embedded scripting language for dynamic web pages similiar to ASP, JSP, etc.
• Scheme, DR Scheme
• Turbo Pascal 5.5 (DOS)
• Windows and .Net-related compilers
  • Visual Studio Express -- Now free from Microsoft
  • Microsoft .Net Framework SDK - Microsoft quietly released their free tools and documentation for developing .Net applications. The SDK includes command-line compilers for .Net languages including C++ and C#.
  • Borland C# Builder Personal Edition - Free for non-commercial use.

Programmer's Editors

• Visual Slickedit - For a programmer, the editor is the most important tool and since I spend the more of my time working with this tool more than any other I am willing to spend the money on a good editor. Slickedit is supported on many different platforms including Solaris, Linux and Windows.
  
  
  + Check out my Slickedit page and visit my Slickedit discussion forum.
  
  
• GNU EMACS and GNU Emacs for NT - More than an editor, it's a way of life!
  
• UltraEdit (Shareware ~$30) - If there wasn't Slickedit, I would say that this would be my favorite programmer's editor on windows. The price is excellent for the amount of features and light weight enough that you can carry it around with you on a floppy.
• Vim - VI improved.
• Notepad++

Debuggers

• Insight [Unix/Linux/Windows]- GUI frontend to the GNU debugger written in Tcl/Tk.
• Microsoft Windows Debugger (WinDbg) [Windows]- Microsoft's stand-alone debugger.
• Borland Turbo Debugger [Windows] - Borland's debugger for it's family of compilers.

Environments, Tools, SDKs & APIs

• Cygwin - Linux-like environment on Windows.
• MSYS (Minimal SYStem) - provides minimal UNIX environment on Windows.
• GNU Make - Probably the most widely used system for compiling source code.
• ANT - Apache Foundation's Java-based build tool.
• Microsoft DirectX SDK - Microsoft's multimedia API for Windows. Most PC games are now written using the DirectX API.
• Microsoft Platform SDK - Headers and libraries necessary for building Windows applications.
• NMAKE - Microsoft's MAKE utility.
• FreeToad - GUI client for accessing Oracle databases.

Windows Utilities

• Digital Fortan Unsupported Utilities - In this set of utilties there is one that behaves like the UNIX "which" utility.
• EverNote - Note taking program.
• Rainlendar (legacy version w/ source) Calendar Utility
• Rainlendar (free and commercial version)
• MyTODO - .Net Todo list
• RK Launcher - OSX-like launch bar.
• JS Pager - Virtual desktop for windows. (not sure where the site is for it anymore)
• AdAware - Checks and removes spyware.
  
• Winzip - (shareware)
  
• 7-zip -- Open source multi-format file achiver.
• Unix Emulation & XWindows
  • UWin - AT&T's unix environment for NT/Windows9.x
  • WinX - XWindows server for MS Windows
  • Cygwin
  • MSYS
• Office Free Stuff
• Tree Print
• Multiren - Let's you rename a batch of files.
• ProcViewer - View the processes running on your machine.
• Misc WinNT utilities
  
  
• Text Editors
  
  • Notepad++ - Open-source programmer's editor based on Scintilla
  • Editpad - Notepad replacement
  • Arachnophilia - Another decent editor for HTML editing, but also have a number of features for programmers.
    
    
• File Viewers (for the various formats you see floating everywhere)
  
  • Adobe Acrobat - Viewer for PDF files you see on the web.
  • Ghostscript - View and print Postscript files from Windows

Windows Systems Utilities

• SysInternals - Provides a large set of very useful and free utilitles for Windows.
• VueIcon - Let's Window display graphic files as icons (much like the way the Mac shows it)

Networking/Internet Software

• Firefox - Web Browser
• Thunderbird - Email Client
• BitTorrent - Peer-assisted delivery system.
• PuTTY - Free SSH client.
• VNC and TightVNC - Allows you to remotely control your desktop (Windows, UNIX, Mac, and more).
• Free Agent - 32bit Windows newsreader
  
• Winsock FTP - (shareware) FTP Client
  
• Wintalk - Windows version of UNIX's talk client
  
• ftp explorer - FTP program that works like the normal Windows Explorer
  
• mIRC - Windows IRC client
• Jabber - Open-source instant messaging system
• Ncftp - Open source command-line based FTP client for windows and UNIX
• Yahoo Messenger
• GAIM Open source multi-protocol IM client
• Miranda Open source (windows-only) multi-protocol IM client
• Trillian Freeware multi-protocol IM client

Multimedia & Image Software

Multimedia

• VideoLAN VLC - Open source media player that can play just about any format without the hassle of installing a bunch of codecs individually.
• GIMP - Open source image editor ala Photoshop.
• Blender - Open source 3D modler ala Maya.
• Winamp - Freeware media player
• CDex - Open source CD-ripper and mp3 encoder.
• LAME - (free mp3 encoder)

Graphic Viewers Programs that allows you to view graphics

• IrfanView Fast graphic view that's small, but loaded with features.
  
• Image View PC Magazine utility that adds the ability for quickview to view gif and jpg files

Linux & UNIX

• Linux - One of the most powerful and stable operating systems for PCs!
• Fedora Linux
• Redhat Linux - The leading Linux distribution in the United States.
• Slackware Linux - Old-school Linux distribution.
• Apache Foundation - Home of the open source Apache web server.
• Ghostscript - Post Script viewer for Windows & Unix/Linux
• GIMP - Photoshop-like graphics package for UNIX /Linux
• PostgreSQL - Top notch standards-compliant RDBMS
• MySQL - RDBMS for UNIX and Windows.
• WHICH - determines which files is really executed
• Jakarta Apache - Apache foundation's Java project (includes ant and Tomcat).
• Blackbox X-Windows Manager
• LiteStep
• Sun Freeware - Packages and software for SunOS and Solaris.

Tips

Win2K

• Changing the default DVD player: Go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DVD\shell\play\command" and point it to your dvd player.
• Disable/enable autoplay: Use TweakUI. Go to the Paranoia tab and uncheck/check.