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Text Editors:

1. Notepad++ (Download Latest Version)

A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence. Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size.

2. Programmer’s Notepad (Download Latest Version)

An open-source text editor targeted at users who work with source code. Programmer’s Notepad is ideal for those who want to code without the automated unnecessaries of larger IDEs.

Web Development Tools:

1. Apache HTTP Server – (Download Latest Version)

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server.

2. PHP – (Download Latest Version)

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.

3. MySQL – (Download Latest Version)

The MySQL® database has become the world’s most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. Not only is MySQL the world’s most popular open source database, it’s also become the database of choice for a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python.) MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux, Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, Netware, giving you the kind of flexibility that puts you in control.

4. phpMyAdmin – (Download Latest Version)

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 55 languages.

Version Control Tools:

1. TortoiseSVN (Download Latest Version)

TortoiseSVN is an easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows.
Since it’s not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like.
TortoiseSVN is free to use.

2. Subclipse (Download Latest Version)

Subclipse is an Eclipse Team Provider plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE. The software is released under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0 open source license.

Voice over IP (VoIP) Tools:

1. Asterisk (Download Latest Version)

Asterisk is the world’s leading open source PBXi, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions…for free.

2. FreeSWITCH (Download Latest Version)

An open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch.  It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control the callflow.

3. SIP Express Router (Download Latest Version)

SIP Express Router (SER) is a high-performance, configurable, free SIP server licensed under the open-source GNU license . It can act as SIP (RFC 3261) registrar, proxy or redirect server.SER is additionally enhanced by a variety of additional SIP tools, which provide functionality for management, media processing, CDR processing, etc. SER is today default part of numerous operating systems and their distributions: Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSUSE, Solaris.