I’m presenting some obviously FREE software that I am using and that can really help while doing development of desktop or normal application as well as while for network monitoring and other tasks.

• Ninite - install everything automagically!
• Fiddler – HTTP traffic monitor
• TaskCoach – friendly lightweight but powerful task manager
• Firefox Add-On: FireBug – web development, debug, profiling, source analyzing and more…
• Firefox Add-On: Fireshot – webpage screenshot maker
• SUN VirtualBox – FREE virtualisation software from SUN aka VMWare
• JUDE/Astah – UML diagram tool
• LDAP Admin – very simple but nice LDAP browser and FREE
• MS Network Monitor – allow capture of network traffic, from Microsoft, FREE!
• MySQL Workbench - tool for designing MySQL databases from mysql.com
• XAMPP - Apache + PHP + MySQL bundle package
• Eclipse - Integrated Development Environment, plugins:
  • Mylyn – task-focused interface for Eclipse
  • Subclipse – support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE
  • Bonita Open Solution – Business Process Management (BPM) solution to create process based applications
• XMind - brainstorming and mind mapping software
• TDA – Java Thread Dump Analyzer
• The Regex Coach – writing Regular Expressions interactively
• Fiddler – HTTP/S traffic debugger
• IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition – Free Java IDE

Frameworks:

• Zend Framework – PHP application framework following the MVC pattern
• Doctrine - a PHP Object Relational Mapping (ORM) Abstraction Layer for databases