Top 3 tools for Web Programmers

The nice thing about talented programmers today is that many of them create softwares for users to enjoy for free and you can download it from the web. For that i salute those programmers! Cheers guys!

There are really lots of freeware nowadays. Too numerious to mention all. Others give you trial versions and expires for certain period of time and others are entirely free.

Maybe some of the most popular freewares, softwares that are absolutely FREE and doesn't require any software licence, are XAMPP, Notepad++, Photofiltre. These softwares, i could say, are needed by web programmers/designers like me.





XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start. If you want to create a dynamic web pages i think this software is one of the best that i can recomend. This is a 3 in one package and so easy to intall one click and you already have your mysql, PHP and Perl instantly. You can download them here :

* For Linux OS
* For Windows OS
* For Mac OS
* For Solaris OS

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages(Ada,ASP,Assembly,AutoIt,C,C#,C++,CSS,Flash AS,HTML,PHP and a lot lot more), running under the MS Windows environment. I use this often to my coding coz Primarily, very handy in space of my hard drive (2MB). Secondly, it does not let my computer comsume a lot of its memmory(very fast in opening and does not hang). Finally, one of my favorite about this software is the Macro. Macro enable you to record what you have coded and run it anytime you want to do it again and you don't need to open your files to copy paste it(it saves a lot of your time). You can download them here And it has a lot of other features like

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding ( For the programs supported )

WYSIWYG (If you have a colour printer, print your source code (or whatever you want) in colour)

User Defined Syntax Highlighting ( It allows user to define his own language : not only the syntax highlighting keywords,but also the syntax folding keywords, comment keywords and the operators. ( screenshot1, screenshot2, screenshot3, screenshot4 ).

Auto-completion (For most supported languages, user can make his/her own API list (or download the api files from downloadsection). Once the api file is ready, type Ctrl+Space to launch this action "see screenshot". For more information about Auto-completion, please see Auto-completion HOWTO.)

Multi-View (You have two views at same time. That means you can visualize "edit" 2 different documents at the same time "screenshot". You can visualize "edit" in the 2 views one document at 2 different positions as well. The modification of document in one view will carry out in another view "i.e. you modify the SAME document when you are in clone mode, see screenshot".)

Regular Expression Search/Replace supported(You can search and replace one string in the document by using the regular expression.)
And a lot lot more to enjoy.

Photofiltre, is an image editing tools that has a lot of functionality like adobe photoshop. Though it does not have layers for you to enjoy i use this programs to a fast editing of my photos inorder for my Webpages to have a little flavor. Besides, photophiltre does not let your computer hang or load for a long time just opening it. You can Download it here.

FLIXIN free video hosting

Flixin.com is a site where you can record your video and host it as well for free. You can download it through it's original format .flv a lot of other formats. You can also get it's source code to put it to your MYSPACE, BLOGGER, EBAY, LIVEJOURNAL, TYPEPAD or just get it's URL and other format. You can also download this for your Iphone/Ipod or windows mobile. You can also email this directly to your friends to share it. The things i love a bout this web site is that Primarily, they host your video for free and don't delete it for sometime. Secondly, You just open their site and record immediately, no need for 4 pages registration and a lot of staffs to enjoy their features. Finally, after recording your video do what ever you want about your video and they don't have any terms and agreement that all the recording you made is their copy right. The video is totally yours. For that i give them 4 stars. Cheers FLIXIN!

Great thing about forums

A lot of people nowadays who are engaged in the Internet world have their own membered forums to share their ideas or ask questions.

But what exactly do we get in joining forums?
Does this help us in any way?
Do we benefit from it?
For me, these are definitely yes. Belonging to the right forum and of our choice is a win-win situation.

Here are some of my reasons why i love forums.

Primarily, forums can help you to solve your problems like in Programming, Designing, movies... Almost everything that we can think off. How? Forum members are from various fields, expertise, places, countries and groups that is why, we could share opinions about a certain subject from different points of views, logic and approach. Here, we could discover that there are numerous ways to solve a single problem.

Secondly, being an active forum member gives you the privilege to be known in the internet world and get a great job through this.

Thirdly, you can show your work to your fellow forum members and ask comments for any improvements and suggestions. This is very helpful since nobody is perfect, right?

Finally, choosing the right forum for your field of interest can absolutely help you improve your skills. Taking into a consideration my membered forums PHPUGPH who conducts seminars to us members to improve our skills on PHP and programming skills, and FlashVillage who gives free templates of flash designs to their members and teach them on how to use it.

These are few of the many reasons why being a member of quality forums is great.

Cheers to us forum members!

Tribute to my membered forums:
FlashVillage - http://www.flashvillage.com and PHPUGPH - http://www.phpugph.com

Parokya ni Edgar American Version

I'm a parokya ni edgar fun. I love their music so much but i think i like this version of buloy more than Parokya's version hahaha. =) Mabuheey! Cheers! lol!