Reviews of software and tools for developers

Best software for webmasters, developers, and tools for the programming environment.

What license for my open source software?
A comparison of open source software licenses, under the conditions they impose or not.

Node, Go, Scala, C#, Elixir...
What language is best for a web application? The advantages and disadvantages of each are explained to avoid further rewriting the code, which happens often.

HTML editors
Best free tools for writing HTML pages, documents and to write a blog offline with a good editor.

Code editors written in JavaScript
Even Microsoft has its version with Visual Studio Code. Since Mozilla Skywriter which was merged with Ace to produce a powerful IDE, many editors in JS running on the local machine appeared.

Oracle vs. PostgreSQL
Why to buy an expensive DBMS when a free alternative exists?

• The databases of Web enterprises
  They do not use Oracle. What is their solution?

Cassandra vs MySQL
Large scale NoSQL database compared with MySQL.

History of software forks, the successes

How to tell if a fork will become popular and will replace the original?

Chrome
The browser that changed the Web. About:plugins and the Flash reader.

• Internet Explorer 10
  No revolution this time in the browser, but version 11 will implement WebGL.
• From IE 7 to IE 9, HTML 5 for all
  A revolution for Microsoft with a full HTML 5 support occurring four years after its implementation in Firefox and Chrome.

Sysinternals, free utilities for Windows
Microsoft provides a lot of "secret" utilities for getting infos on the system or tweaking Windows.