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[forsyth]

Man, why'd it take me so long to decide to get into engineering? Man.

Okay, two questions though. First, what Firefox addons/plugins do people use and have found handy? Is there one that works to post to LJ? I just installed PortableFirefox on a new thumb drive and want to make my life easier.

Also, does anybody have a suggestion for a good free (as in speech, not just as in beer) C++ compiler/linker/etc? Yeah, I could go download a free version of Microsoft's from their site, but dude, seriously. Especially hopefully one that's installable to a thumbdrive?

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[dezro.livejournal.com]

The three main compilers are GCC, which is Gnu and okay but it can compile for any system you can think of, Microsoft's compiler, which is Microsoft's, and Intel's compiler, which I hear gives you some pretty fast binaries but I think you have to pay for it.

If you want GCC on Windows you should install MinGW

If you wanted a whole development environment, then Eclipse and Dev-C++ are the popular ones. I recommend Dev-C++ since everything you need is in one installer. With Eclipse you have to install GCC separately.


As for Firefox, I recommend:
Adblock Plus
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
dragdropupload
Flat Bookmark Editing
Greasemonkey
It's All Text! (lets you open text fields in an external editor)
NextPlease (which is really good for webcomic browsing)
Stylish
Submit to Tab
Undo Closed Tabs Button (the feature is in Firefox already, but there's no button. anyway, very handy)

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Dev-C++ showed up on Google searches before, but I'll have to look at Eclipse. I'd rather have something free-as-in-speech than free-as-in-beer.

It's All Text! sounds handy. I'll have to check those out. Especially the "undo closed tabs", because misclicking and closing all tabs EXCEPT the one I wanted closed sucks!