Programming:<\/p>\n
I work in a couple languages and develop everything from full-blown applications to web applications to scripts for server maintenance. These are my top picks for whatever language I am working in at the moment.<\/p>\n
Java: I haven’t really tested Eclipse<\/a> [Linux – BSD – OSX – Windows] more than to install it and run it for a short while. Truthfully, I just didn’t feel like overcoming the learning curve, since I already know how to do what I want to do in NetBeans.<\/p>\n Bash Scripting: Python: Programming: I work in a couple languages and develop everything from full-blown applications to web applications to scripts for server maintenance. These are my top picks for whatever language I am working in at the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,36],"tags":[149,173],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-writings","tag-tools","tag-writings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-25","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI have been using (for several years) and am partial to NetBeans<\/strong><\/a> [Linux – BSD – Windows – OSX]. This Java IDE has progressed into a full-featured environment including the following integrated pieces:<\/p>\n\n
\nOf course it is always best to do Bash scripting in a bash shell, preferably in XEmacs<\/strong><\/a> [Linux – BSD – OSX – Windows] or Nano<\/a> [Linux – BSD – OSX – Windows (DOS)].When I can, that is exactly what I do. Often, however, I am forced at work to develop Bash scripts for servers from my desktop (Windows) PC. For this I have found evolvEd<\/strong><\/a> [Windows] to be the tool of choice. It provides syntax highlighting and code completion hints which help a great deal when you are unable to paste a line of code into a terminal window and see how it runs. Of course, I can<\/em> test those scripts (at least partially) in Cygwin<\/a> [Windows] which I make sure to install on every Windows box I am expected to work with, but those tests are limited in that calls to other programs don’t work if those programs aren’t installed in Cygwin.<\/p>\n
\nPython is fairly new to me still, for anything beyond server scripts, and large text file parsing, which is what got me started in Python. (Python can do a line-by-line parse of a 280MB text file, determining the interesting non-empty lines by the characters in the 12th – 20th position and writing them out to a series of 1200 line files in a matter of a couple minutes – as opposed to the constant hung process I was getting with a Bash script to do the same thing.) Being new to Python I have really only worked with IDLE<\/strong><\/a> [Linux – BSD – Windows – OSX] which is included with the current distribution of Python. There may be better things out there – perhaps jEdit<\/a> [Linux – BSD – Windows – OSX] or something else, but I am still too new in the game to make that decision, even for myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"