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Finding Developer Toolkits On The Web?

Posted by Cliff on from the making-the-developers-life-a-bit-easier dept.

Tero Kukola asks: "In a past 'Ask Slashdot' article the subject was GUI toolkits. In one comment there was a link to page The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page. I'm very impressed about that effort. It contains only relevant and comprehensive information about GUI toolkits. I consider this kind of information very valuable to developers. Unfortunately, GUI toolkits are only one single area in software development. I think there is also a need to make similar pages about other tookits, too. Such are, for example: general toolkits (string, file, data structures, networking...), math & physics toolkits, and sound toolkits."

"This kind of information needs to be put together and maintained, not scattered around the net. It would benefit all kinds of developers, especially newbies. Consider it an attempt to collect the community knowledge.

Now what I would like to ask Slashdot readers is:

  • Are there pages about other toolkits?
  • Is there already an effort to collect this kind of information to one place?
  • If not, is there enough interest to start one? I think I would be ready to contribute.
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3 comments

  1. Re:hmm... by Clifton+Wood · · Score: 1

    If you'd look at the "GUI Toolkit" site referenced in the article, you'd know how far off the mark Freshmeat and SourceForge are from what poster is looking for. Freshmeat and SourceForge serve specific purposes, but comparisons of toolkits is not one of them.

  2. C++ Networking Toolkit by Carnage4Life · · Score: 2

    I was recently pointed to this by a fellow Slashdotter, it's ACE the The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment . It's an Object Oriented Networking Toolkit written in C++.

  3. Game development by billcopc · · Score: 2

    Well I don't know moose about app development kits (I personally don't have much faith in all this distributed computing layered application design crap - Client/Server forever!). But I do know a bit about game development, although (don't lynch me!) it's mostly Windows/Dos stuff. here goes nothing :

    Gamedev.net
    Game programming resources (huge link list)
    CDX DirectX wrapper


    Well.. it's a good start for newbies, or when you're just too tired to code a weighted anti-aliased Bresenham's algo. =)

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    -Billco, Fnarg.com