Hiren's Boot CD

Hiren's Boot CD is a bundle of system utilities in a bootable CD.  Here is a list of included software tools.

It is highly useful.

For example, my Windows installation on VirtualBox used 2 partitions C: and D:. Unfortunately C: drive is only 6GB. I found the space not enough when I tried to install VS.NET Express 2008 and relevant server development softwares.  Then I used a tool (Partition Wizard Home Edition 7.0 in the Partition Tools section, see here for a short introduction with screenshot) from this CD to shrink D: drive and expand C: drive. Now I have 14GB on C: drive, enough to fit in the softwares I wanted.  It only took 5-10 minutes and 2 automatic reboot, partly because the disks are still quite empty.

Just download the ISO (at the end of this page, or direct link here) and burn it to a CD, or just mount it virtually. The download is about 592.5MB in size.

Octave - open source version of Matlab

Octave notes

DjVu to PDF converter

DjVu to PDF converter
Free & Online. BETA version. Searchable PDFs!

http://www.djvu-pdf.com/

OS Tools

KDirStat is a linux/unix disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool. Its Windows version is WinDirStat and Mac version is Disk Inventory X.

PHPUnit, Hudson CI, Doxygen and Silverlilght

PHPUnit is used for writing unit tests in PHP. This is a first tutorial.

Hudson CI is a continuous integration server system. Can be used for automated unit testing.

Doxygen is a documentation system for many programming languages.

Silverlight is Microsoft's RIA solution coming with MPF. See here for tutorial.