Home | Research | HowTos Martin Raden, nee Mann

Bioinformatics Group
Institute for Computer Science
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
Georges-Koehler-Allee 106
D-79110, Freiburg, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)761 203-8254
Fax: +49 (0)761 203-7462
Room: 106-02-012

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7926-5911

Free tools I prefer

• Proton - my beloved and slim Code- and Text-Editor (downloads)
• Cygwin - a Linux environment for Windows (see my HowTo page)
• Putty - SSH client for Windows
• MikTeX - LaTeX implementation for Windows
• Eclipse - my all-in-one multi-platform IDE (Java-based)
  Usefull plugins:
  
  • Java support is directly included
  • CVS support is directly included
  • CDT - C++
  • HTMLEditor (needs GEF) - Html, CSS, ...
  • TeXlipse - LaTeX
  • Subclipse - SVN
• Firefox - Web browser
  Usefull extensions:
  
  • Mouse Gestures - Browse with mouse ;)
  • Adblock Plus - blocks commercial banners etc. using self-updating rule lists
  • FlashGot - Download manager interface
  • FireFtp - Internal ftp client
  • Reminder Fox - Manage birthday, TODOs, etc. (web-based sharing possible)
• Thunderbird - Mail client
  Usefull extensions:
  
  • Reminder Fox - Manage birthday, todos, etc. (also shared possible)
  • Addressbooks Synchronizer - Share a global addressbook
• StrokeIt - Mouse gesture support for all Windows apps

Programming related links

• API generation
  
  • Doxygen - Source code documentation generator tool
• XSD Tutorial - XML Schema Definition

C++

• Compiler
  
  • GCC compiler manual
• Online API
  
  • C/C++ reference
  • SGI STL reference
  • HTML special character encoding