[Tfug] Windows desktop visual development tool

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On 12/26/2007 10:06 PM, keith smith wrote:
> I'm looking for a Windows desktop visual development 
> tool to do stuff like:
> 1. scrape website content
> 2. pass through CAPTCHA  challenges
>
Have you considered any interpreted languages like Ruby, 
Python, or Perl?

They all have excellent facilities for scraping website 
content. Regarding passing through CAPTCHA challenges, this  
will be handled by a library in the language, not by the 
language itself. I believe there are libraries for all the 
languages mentioned above, but you'd be better off searching 
for them and not trusting me.

As for *visual* development tools, which I interpret to mean 
integrated development environment:

Komodo: http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/

Eclipse with the extensions/plugins:

  Ruby Development Tools (RDT): 
  http://rubyeclipse.sourceforge.net/

  PyDev for Python
  http://pydev.sourceforge.net/

There are others too.


> 3. would like a light weight database
>
SqlLite is a light weight database. There is no server 
component, and there are libraries for all the 
interpreted languages mentioned above.

-- 
Glen