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Subject: Software not painful to use
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Subject_short: painless software
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Topic: /misc/coolsw
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Archive: no
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Date: Nov 20 2006
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Order: -9.5
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inMenu: true
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### General ###
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* *Operating System* : [Mac OS X][switch]: heaven, after the purgatory of Linux
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and the hell of Windows.
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* *Browser*: [Firefox][firefox]. On a Mac, [Camino][camino].
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* *Email*: [GMail][gmail], "search, don't sort" really works.
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* *Text Editor*: [TextMate][textmate], you have to buy it, but it's worth every
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penny. There are rumours that it's been converting (recovering) Emacs
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users (addicts). Unfortunately, it's Mac only. An alternative is
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[jedit][jedit] (GPL, Java).
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### Development ###
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* *Build system*: [cmake][cmake], throw the [autotools][autotools] away.
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* *Source code control system*: ditch CVS for [subversion][subversion].
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* *Project management*: [Trac][trac] tracks everything.
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* *Scripting language*: [Ruby][ruby] is Japanese pragmatism (and has a [poignant][poignant] guide).
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Python, you say? Python is too academic and snob:
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$ python
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Python 2.4.1 (\#1, Jun 4 2005, 00:54:33)
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Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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>>> exit
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'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
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>>> quit
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'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
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* *Java IDE*: [JBuilder][jbuilder] is great software and has a free version (IMHO better than Eclipse). Java
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is not a pain anymore since it gained [generics][java-generics] and got opensourced.
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* *Mark-up language*: HTML is so 2001, why don't you take at look at [Markdown][markdown]? [Look at the source of this page](data/misc_markdown.png).
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* *C++ libraries*:
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* [QT][qt] for GUIs.
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* [GSL][gsl] for math.
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* [Magick++][magick] for manipulating images.
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* [Cairo][cairo] for creating PDFs.
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* [Boost][boost] for just about everything else.
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### Research ###
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* *Writing papers*: [LaTeX][latex]
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* *Writing papers & enjoying the process*: [LyX][lyx]
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* *Handsome figures in your papers*: [xfig][xfig] or, better, [jfig][jfig].
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* *The occasional presentation with many graphical content*:
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[OpenOffice Impress][impress] (using the [OOOlatex plugin][ooolatex]);
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the alternative is PowerPoint with the [TexPoint][texpoint] plugin.
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* *Managing BibTeX*: [jabref][jabref]: multi-platform, for all your bibtex needs.
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* *IEEExplore and BibTeX*: convert citations using [BibConverter][bibconverter].
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### Cool websites ###
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* *Best site in the wwworld*: [Wikipedia][wikipedia]
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* [Mutopia][mutopia] for sheet music; [the Gutenberg Project][gutenberg] for books; [LiberLiber][liberliber] for books in italian.
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* *Blogs*: [Bloglines][bloglines]
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* *Sharing photos*: [flickr][flickr] exposes an API you can use.
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[firefox]: http://getfirefox.com/
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[gmail]: http://gmail.com/
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[bloglines]: http://bloglines.com/
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[wikipedia]: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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[ruby]: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
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[poignant]: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
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[webgen]: http://webgen.rubyforge.org/
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[markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
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[latex]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
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[lyx]: http://www.lyx.org
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[impress]: http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html
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[ooolatex]: http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/
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[texpoint]: http://texpoint.necula.org/
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[jabref]: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
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[camino]: http://www.caminobrowser.org/
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[switch]: http://www.apple.com/getamac/
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[textmate]: http://www.apple.com/getamac/
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[cmake]: http://www.cmake.org/
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[xfig]: http://www.xfig.org/
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[jfig]: http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/
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[subversion]: http://subversion.tigris.org
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[jbuilder]: http://www.borland.com/us/products/jbuilder/index.html
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[flickr]: http://www.flickr.com/
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[myflickr]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/censi
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[bibconverter]: http://www.bibconverter.net/ieeexplore/
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[autotools]: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/
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[jedit]: http://www.jedit.org/
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[qt]: http://www.trolltech.no/
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[gsl]: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
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[magick]: http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/
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[cairo]: http://cairographics.org/
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[boost]: http://www.boost.org/
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[markdown]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
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[trac]: http://trac.edgewall.org/
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[mutopia]: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
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[liberliber]: http://www.liberliber.it/
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[gutenberg]: http://www.gutenberg.org/
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[java-generics]: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/generics.html
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