UltraEdit is a very powerful programmer’s editor. Supremely customisable, it comes with multiple prebuilt Environments that allow you to set up the program just as you’d like. Switch to Web Developer, for instance, and you’ll get syntax highlighting and other assistance when developing in PHP, HTML, ASP, JavaScript, Perl, XML…

When designing and coding and app, performance is always a primary concern. Tracking how your app makes use of memory and processor time can be key to optimizing performance and this is something that Microsoft PerfView can help with. Whether you are experiencing performance issues with your code, or just…

SciTE is a powerful programmer’s editor and Notepad replacement based on the popular open-source Scintilla (a component used within many other editing tools). You don’t need to be a developer to use the program. It looks much like Notepad, so at a minimum you can just launch it, type some…

WebSite X5 – Evolution is a powerful application which makes it easy to create top-quality responsive websites, even if you’ve no design or coding experience at all. The program offers more than 1,000 professional templates covering just about every site type and topic area: e-commerce, blogs, sports sites, animals, food,…

UltraEdit is a very powerful programmer’s editor. Supremely customisable, it comes with multiple prebuilt Environments that allow you to set up the program just as you’d like. Switch to Web Developer, for instance, and you’ll get syntax highlighting and other assistance when developing in PHP, HTML, ASP, JavaScript, Perl, XML…

EditPlus is a developer-oriented text editor with an extensive list of features. So like most Notepad replacements, it includes syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Perl, C/C++, Java, JavaScript and VBScript. But if that’s not enough, no problem, just create your own custom syntax file to support the language…

GPU Caps Viewer is a free, portable graphics card information tool with a strong focus on developer-level OpenGL, OpenCL and CUDA-related details. The program’s GPU tab has useful hardware details which will appeal to any knowledgeable user, though: your GPU model, memory size and type, BIOS version, current temperature, fan…

ImageMagick is a collection of mostly command-line based tools that allow you to view, convert and edit graphics files. At the simplest you might just use a command like “convert image.jpg image.png” to convert an image from one format to another. But the program can also manipulate images (resize, rotate,…

Think of the command line, and you probably think of a pretty limited tool. PowerShell takes things to the next level, going far beyond the command line’s ability to run simple DOS scripts. It includes not only a command line shell, but also its own scripting language. This is an…

The PortableApps.com Installer is an easy-to-use NSIS-based tool for packaging your portable apps. If you develop portable apps then you could of course simply make them available as raw executables, or archives. But that’s not exactly the friendliest approach, as you’re leaving the end user with the hassle of extracting…