WWW Development
Listed below are links to tools and technologies used in the development of this website.
| web development links | |
|---|---|
| 7 ZIP | File compression utility program. In our opinion - better than WinZip! |
| Apache HTTP Server | Home of the Apache Software Foundation. |
| Cortona VRML browser | VRML browser developed by ParallelGraphics. |
| Eclipse | The Eclipse IDE Project. |
| FileZilla | Excellent FTP GUI program. Used extensively by 4fg for uploading files to webhost. |
| FPDF | FPDF stands for "Free PDF". FPDF is a class that generates PDF files straight from PHP. Unlike the PDFLib library, FPDF is completely free to use and modify. |
| HTML-Kit | A simply fantastic free HTML IDE. Try it, and you'll never use another editor again! |
| Java | The home of the Java programming lanaguage and associated technologies. |
| JavaScript Source | Free source of JavaScript. |
| Mozilla FireFox Web Browser | An excellent web browser that can be downloaded for free. Checkout Mozilla's emailer, Thunderbird! |
| MySQL | Open source database and tools such as Query Browser developed by MySQL AB. |
| PHP | A general purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. |
| PHP Classes | A repository of freely available PHP classes. This website makes extensive use of several classes from www.phpclasses.org such as paypal_class by Micah Carrick, RSS_feed by Timothy Sakach, PHPMailer by Brent Matzelle and the fantastic Image_Toolbox by Martin Theimer. |
| PHPeclipse | PHP Plug-in for Eclipse. |
| POV-Ray | The one and only Persistense of Vision Ray Tracer. |
| Simple Machines | Developers of the excellent SMF forum. |
| Softcomplex | Numerous software tools, such as the freely available JavaScript Tigra Menu. |
| SourceForge | The home of open source software such as the excellent PhpMailer used by this site for emailing members. |
| Suse Linux | The Suse Linux operating system. |
| The Gimp | The GNU Image Manipulation Program. |
| W3C | W3C. |
| Web3D | Web3D Consortium developing Xj3D browser and other 3D technologies. |