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Programming Languages, Tools, and Environments

Perl
Dynamic programming language that excels at text processing. Often used for report writing and system administration tasks, as well as Web development.
http://www.perl.org

Python
General-purpose, high-level programming language with minimalist syntax. Popular at organizations such as Google, which employs Python creator Guido van Rossum.
http://www.python.org

Hibernate
An object/relational persistence and query service for Java. Simplifies database access routines for Java programmers.
http://hibernate.org

Eclipse
A highly extensible Integrated Development Environment written in Java and originally targeted at Java programmers, although it has since been extended to support other languages such as PHP. Used as the basis for many commercial Java software development projects.
www.eclipse.org

Mono
An open source implementation of the .NET technologies (according to the specifications Microsoft published through ECMA), which allows you to run code written in C# or any other language capable of being compiled to run in Microsoft's Common Language Runtime on Linux and other non-Windows platforms.
http://www.mono-project.org

Hadoop
An outgrowth of the Apache Lucene and Nutch open source search technology projects, Hadoop attempts to replicate core components of Google's distributed computing systems (as described in academic papers), including the Google File System, MapReduce parallel programming technique, and BigTable semi-structured database.
http://lucene.apache.com/hadoop

Subversion
A popular software version control system, widely used within enterprises as well as open source projects. Originated with Collabnet, which sells commercial products built on Subversion.
http://subversion.tigris.org
http://collabnet.com

Bugzilla
Bug tracking system developed by the Mozilla organization and widely used elsewhere.
http://www.bugzilla.org

Mantis
Bug tracking system with e-mail notification.
http://www.mantisbt.org

Litmus
Quality assurance and test management tool created by Mozilla for testing of the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client.
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Litmus