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I try to use Eclipse for all my project/documentation work, whether it's a Java project, Visual Studio.NET or whatever. From within Eclipse, I use the TimeTrack plugin (I'm using an older one for Eclipse 3.0).

It tracks your usage relating to the project and the file you're working on, with a resolution of about 2 minutes. You do have to remember to use Ecilpse to select/open the file (so it knows what you're working on).

It's certainly not perfect, but is functional, and it's XML output is easy to manipulate and filter on (I use Excel for tabulation).

I think there is a plug in that should scratch just about any itch. Nice.

Indeed, the Python and Perl plugins are both very nice and from the look of it more featureful than the Ruby plugin at the moment (though I expect it's only a short matter of time before that evens out). I think its more a matter of what languages aren't currently covered? There are apparently plugins for Eiffel and Haskell and Ocaml and SPARK and Scheme (though I can't vouch for quality on any of those) and pretty much anything else you can imagine (given that those were random searches on my part).

Jedidiah.

MyEclipse (an Eclipse plugin) already has Bugzilla integration, and only costs $30/year (whereas Deskzilla costs $99). I haven't used the Bugzilla integration much to say how good it is (J2EE app server support in MyEclipse is great, though). And I'm not really sure if they just repackaged this plugin that was already mentioned.

Here are a couple of eclipse plugins for bugzilla- buglist and the unimaginatively titled Bugzilla integration plugin for eclipse

"Editor which supports Wikipedia Syntax.
* Wikipedia templates (Ctrl+SPACE)
* HTML preview rendering
* export wizard for generating HTML files
* open a Wikipedia link with right mouse click and selecting "Open Wiki link"
* HTML pages can be configured with velocity templates
* update from a Wikipedia page (right mouse click in the editor)
* HTTP GET Queries from selected editor texts (right mouse click in the editor)

Changes: * a new context-menu item in the editor for creating all files for a given category [1] * a first Export Wizard to convert Wikipedia articles into a single PDF file. [2]

[1] http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_Eclipse_Wiki pedia_Editor:Download_a_Wikipedia_Article%23Grabbi ng_a_Category

[2] http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_Eclipse_Wiki pedia_Editor:Export_to_PDF_File"

There have been PHP plugins available for Eclipse for a while now. I have used TruStudio which is decent. Also check EclipsePlugins.

Sharpdevelop - Free (GPL) .net IDE, requires the .net framework and SDK
Bloodshed Dev-C++ - Excellent free (GPL) C and C++ IDE, using the Windows GCC port

You asked for suggestions on IDEs? I use IBM's free Eclipse with QNX's free C/C++ extension called CDT everyday on both linux and windose (Well actually my buddy uses the linux port). It is phenomenal and getting better everyday. I am using a old borland compiler but you can use any C/C++ compiler you want including gcc. I don't program in the .Net world but I am pretty sure there is a .Net plugin somewhere. And if you can't find one you can write one pretty quickly with IBM's plugin development perspective.

I'm into rippin' my CDs for my Turtle Beach Audiotron (fair use, RIAA jerks) so I also am not without EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip beautifully to .wav, LAME to convert to .mp3, MP3Gain to normalize, and ID3-Taggit to manage tags and filenames. Details

Sigh.