http://www.idevelopment.info/ is maintained by Jeffrey M. Hunter. He is a DBA and software engineer graduated from Stanislaus State University in Turlock California with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He is Oracle Certified Professional, Java Development Certified Professional, Read More

Scintilla is a free source code editing component which includes useful features such as syntax styling, error indicators, folding, code completion and call tips. The project includes SciTE (SCIntilla based Text Editor). It comes with complete source code and a license that permits use in any Read More

When you double-click on a file, Windows uses a file’s extension to know which application to launch. This process is known as file association. Sometimes certain programs will try to steal other application’s file associations and assign them to themselves. For example, older Read More

Nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written byIgor Sysoev for large Russian web company Rambler and kindly provided by open-source community. This server can be used as standalone HTTP-server and as reverse proxy server before some Apache or another big server to reduce load Read More

Netcraft released it’s latest survey on web server and hits. Here is the excerpts from Dec 2008. In the December 2008 survey, Netcraft received responses from 186,727,854 sites. This total has grown by 1.56 million sites since last month. Apache shows the largest growth this month, Read More

Here you will see the Best Programs, software or utilities for windows! The list will be continuously updated. Following are the Software Reviews: Text Editors Textpad UltraEditor notepad++ File Comparison VMerge UltraCompare Goodsync Beyond Compare Program Installers/Packagers HM Read More

Beyond Compare just recently hit version 3.0 and I had used it at the office countless times to take my local work up to the file server or web server at the click of a button. It saves profiles and on refresh, it would show you in a different color which file was newer. Beyond Compare does Read More

GoodSync is another file synchronization software. Immediately after setting up a job in it’s interface all I had to do was hit the Analyze button and I could quickly see what files were new, altered and needed to be synchronized. Just a quick tap on the button and my files were updated across Read More

A complement to your file management suite, UltraCompare Professional is loaded with features to enable you to compare text files and folders, as well as zip files and jar archives. Text file compare features include binary and text compare of two or three text files at a time, with the ability Read More

TextPad is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires. Advanced search/replace, Spellcheck, Syntax-Highlighting, Line Numbering, Multiple Document Handling, Macros, minimize to tray, windows shell integration. You can also Read More

First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability. Inno Setup is best used in combination with its free editor ISTools. Both Packages can be downloaded and installed directly here. An other thid-party tool which is Inno Read More

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is a simple elegant yet powerful solution. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. You have created a small Read More

HM NIS Edit is the best Editor/IDE for Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS). Its useful for experts and beginners in the creation of Setup programs with the NSIS. Its Script Wizard will help you to create standard Setup programs with only few clicks, also its InstallOptions designer will Read More

Notepad++ is a free generic source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher Read More

VMerge is a program, Visual file synchronization and version merging tool, designed to help people in merging files. VMerge compares files, displays them side by side highlighting the differing sections and lets the user decide which section will be taken into the output file by a single mouse Read More

UltraEdit is a powerful text editor. It has a highly customizable interface, handles huge files very quickly, remembers search strings in a drop-down list, and uses a built-in FTP client to open and save files on remote systems. UltraEdit has been clearly designed with three groups in mind: Read More

Werner Puschitz is maintaining a web site http://www.puschitz.com/ that provides step by step approach to install oracle database in Linux operating systems. This is very useful for starters who wants to learn the tricks to install oracle in Linux. If you do not have a metalink account , this is Read More

Many users are asking how to handle an unix or shell script within php. Here is a simple way to call a sample bash script inside php script page and have a return value printed to your web page. This is achieved by using “system” call in php that invokes the shell script. Here is the Read More

Pete Finnigan maintains a site, keep it as up to date and current as possible. Perhaps public service is too strong a description but effort is made to try and maintain a vendor neutral position and unbiased. Database Security is important and Oracle is one of the main database software Read More

Best utility to uninstall programs when you have issues during install or uninstall. Windows Installer CleanUp Utility When you are working on your computer and installing a new program, the installation suddenly fails. Now you are left with a partly installed program. You try to install the Read More