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My Favorite, Free Programming Tools

By David Edelman on 03.10.07
Filed Under: Software

Selecting the write software programs to code and interact with your servers can save you a tremendous amount of time and headaches. Here are my current favorites:

Text Editing: PSPad
PSPad is a lightweight text editor with a tabbed interface, contextual code highlighting, and a built-in FTP server. The ftp server is especially useful for working directly on a remote server.

FTP: FileZilla and FireFTP
FileZilla is hands down the best open source client. It's easy to use and does what it's supposed to. FireFTP is a plug-in for Firefox that is easy to keep open in a tab during an extended coding session.

SCP: WinSCP3
SCP is a secure copying protocol. You can use it to login to your server as root and, unlike ftp, you can transfer to and from the root directory.

Shell Access: PuTTy
PuTTy is a simple program for logging directly into your linux server's shell.