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We strongly adhere to the open source philosophy here at Heptacube.
Here is a short list of the software and programming langages we use the most, all of them open source and highly accessible.
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PHP: programming freely
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. After that, check out the online manual, and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the links section.
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PHP-based tools
osCommerce: online shop e-commerce solution
osCommerce has over 214,400 store owners and developers on board. This community is responsible for over 5,500 add-ons that are available for free to customize osCommerce Online Merchant online stores.
Go see the osCommerce site for examples of what the PHP-based program can achieve, like this live demonstration.
Zend Framework: Extreme Simplicity & Productivity
Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs
Smarty Template Engine: presentation framework
One of Smartys primary design goals is to facilitate the separation of application code from presentation. Typically, the application code contains the business logic of your application, written and maintained in PHP code. This code is maintained by programmers. The presentation is the way your content is presented to the end user, which is written and maintained in template files. The templates are maintained by template designers.
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C/C++ programming: general-purpose programming language
Cocoa
Cocoa is Apple's name for the collection of frameworks, APIs, and accompanying runtimes that make up the development layer of Mac OS X. By developing with the Cocoa frameworks you will be writing applications the same way that Mac OS X itself is written, with complete access to the full power of the operating system, including the signature Mac look and feel. Cocoa is simply the best way to create native Mac applications.
GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).
People at GNU strive to provide regular, high quality releases, which they want to work well on a variety of native and cross targets (including GNU/Linux), and encourage everyone to contribute changes and help testing GCC. Their sources are readily and freely available via
SVN and weekly snapshots.
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Python: remarkably powerful dynamic programming language
Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) holds and protects the intellectual property rights behind Python and the programming language is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license that makes it free to use, even for commercial products.
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jQuery: a new kind of JavaScript Library
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
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Java: powering more than 4.5 billion devices
Sun Microsystem's Java
To date, the Java platform has attracted more than 6.5 million software developers. It's used in every major industry segment and has a presence in a wide range of devices, computers, and networks.
Java technology's versatility, efficiency, platform portability, and security make it the ideal technology for network computing. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
Hibernate: open source Java framework
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following object-oriented idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibernate allows you to express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL), as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API.
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MySQL: the world's most popular open source database software
MySQL has had 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed throughout its history. With its superior speed, reliability, and ease of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice for Web, Web 2.0, SaaS, ISV, Telecom companies and forward-thinking corporate IT Managers because it eliminates the major problems associated with downtime, maintenance and administration for modern, online applications.
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Apache: support for open-source software projects
The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.
Here is a catalog of Apache Software Foundation projects. It is designed to help you find specific projects that meet your interests and to gain a broader understanding of the wide variety of work currently underway in the Apache community.
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Gentoo: free operating system
Gentoo is a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. To learn more, read their about page
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