Top Developer Tools for Linux

debug is a fancy debugger in a single statement.People debug with print. It's great in simple cases. Another debugging tool, pdb, is less popular as it requires more effort: one has to do a Google search, skim through documentation, type some long...

pagerunit is a simple Nagios alternative made to look like unit tests.Developer commentsThis is probably a bad idea but I wanted to get something on paper (as it were) so I could get back to real work.UsageConfigure PagerUnit so it can send email in...

fakeldap is a Python module that provides a simple way to mock LDAP backend servers for your unittests. It makes it possible to define upfront a set of directory entries that can be queried or set fixed return values to ldap queries. It acts as a...

slacktrack is a tool to assist with building Slackware packages from the < package >.build scripts that can be found in the distribution source tree.slacktrack can also be used to build packages where Makefile does not honour any DESTDIR type variable,...

The default py.test keyword filtering (-k) is _way_ too broad. You would think that it would be based on the MarkInfo objects that are described alongside the filter option but that would be incorrect. In fact, it chooses the method/function name of the...

You Can Make a DifferenceThe Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is a research effort designed to answer these questions.We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while...

Pacha is a project designed from the ground up to be a simple way to backup and manage software configuration files from single or multiple server instances across the network.Pacha's approach is to easily deploy an instance and capture any changes...

DoctorJ project is an application that analyzes Java documentation for compliance with the standard and for accuracy against the code, beyond what javadoc does.Among what it...

NetBeans IDE is a free and full-featured software project designed for developers who are looking to develop applications using the Java programming language. It is a cross-platform IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that works on GNU/Linux,...

SQLSoup is a tool that provides a convenient way to map Python objects to relational database tables, with no declarative code of any kind. It's built on top of the SQLAlchemy ORM and provides a super-minimalistic interface to an existing...