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Aptana Studio Community 1.1

Shareware

Old-school coding IDE, designed for developers who want to program their web code using HTML, CSS or Javascript. YouÆre not completely help-free, however, as Aptana ships with a code assist tool and, when you need to verify your finished work, there is built-in support error and warning notification.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Inno Setup 5.2.3

Freeware

Professional-level installer application that will enable you to wrap up files within a Windows installer that is familiar to the end user. This installation routine is ideal for the programmer who wants to distribute their application to end-users and needs their installer to be highly customisable.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

WinMerge 2.10.2

Freeware

You might have been working on some code for ages, but you're so tired that you're adding more bugs than you're fixing. WinMerge is a visual text differencing and merging tool that enables you to load two text files and compare the differences. You can show each text file side-by-side and go through each document to examine the changes between the files.

Requires: Windows 2000 or XP

Free CSS Toolbox 1.1

Freeware

Editing existing CSS, aimed at web developers who want to make changes quickly. Free CSS Toolbox includes a number of tools for fast-tracking and enhancing the development of style sheet code, such as an advanced CSS Formatter and CSS Validator which can check through some code and point out errors.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

wyUpdate Express 1.0.1

Free basic version
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Enables a software developer to add an auto-update facility to your software. It is fairly customisable and will enable you to set up the various options so that you can choose the server where youÆd get the software to check for an update, Registry configuration and much more.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Twistpad 1.64

Shareware

Fully featured Text Editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or an featured packed editor targeting web and software developers. Twistpad supports a full range of syntax highlighting for the most popular formats out of the box but it's strength relies on the easy to create new highlighting schemes.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP