Tools for the trade

Everyone has his/her own set of preferences when it comes to development tools. This page is mainly aimed at people that don't have a favorite editor, cvs frontend and so forth.

Database access tools

• pgAdminIII
• phpPgAdmin
• pgaccess
• psycopg another db-api adapter
• kpogre if you are on KDE anyway
• knoda

Editors

• Midnight Commander aka MC

• The eric3 Python IDE aka Eric3
  • + great if you are using KDE anyway
  • + very good indentation handling
  • + excellent copy and paste
  • + useful debugger
  • + direct connection to python documention
  • - no special support regarding wxWidgets

• KATE, which Horst likes

• various editors listed at a python wiki page

• Poedit – a cross-platform, gettext catalogs (.po translation files) editor.

GUI design tools

• wxGlade - and two GNUmed posts (1, 2) on troubleshooting
• wxDesigner
• BOA

IRC clients

• for Mac: fire

Other useful tools

• Majentis CVS Conflict Editor
• LinCVS - a graphical Interface for the cvs client commandline tool on the Unix, Mac OS X and Windows platform
• Object-relational modeling for Python - referenced at gnumed-devel here
• Code converter (attempt) VB -> Python ? you can even submit VB code via web interface and get Python code back. It might flatten the learning curve for people who are still more familiar with VB than Python:
• EClass.Builder - learning module and documentation builder in Python. Posted here for possible consideration by the overall gnumed project.
• HL7 Browser
• client computer administrative, maintenance & troubleshooting tools & utilities for Mac | Windows | *nix