Software

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Here's a list of software commonly used in the department. You may wish to add tips or questions to the program's wiki page.

Mac

  • Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program
  • Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each)
  • MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc.
  • fugu -- a nice GUI version of SFTP/SCP for the Mac

Linux

  • Loggernet -- Campbell Scientific's data retrieval program
  • Perl -- Handy programming/scripting language for all sorts of things
  • Ruby -- A very object-oriented language we're just beginning to use

Windows

  • Dreamweaver -- HTML/CSS editing program
  • Aptana -- HTML / CSS editing program with a different IDE from dreamweaver (some advantages for each)
  • MS Office -- Excel, Powerpoint etc.
  • Adobe PDF tools -- Making PDFs (free alternatives also available)
  • Adobe Photoshop -- Image Manipulation
  • Adobe Illustrator -- Graphics creation
  • Irfanview -- Image viewing program more flexible than the default Microsoft Image viewer
  • Cygwin -- linux utilities for Windows
  • Python -- available either through cygwin or as a standalone program.
  • ArcGIS -- ESRI's GIS program - Visit the GINA page for the UAF license info: http://esrisitelicense.gina.alaska.edu/
  • Putty -- Small suite of tools for doing SSH/SFTP/SCP
  • SSH Secure Shell -- An alternative tool for doing SSH/SFTP
  • Origin -- A fancy plotting & graph program
  • Surfer -- A fancy plotting & graph program
  • Perl -- Handy programming language for all sorts of things
  • Loggernet -- Campbell Scientific's data retrieval program
  • HBV -- Streamflow modeling, a rainfall-runoff program
  • HBV-light -- Streamflow modeling, a monte carlo approach for parameter estimation

WERC in-house software development