Other useful software

In order to follow the sample jobs throughout the book, you may wish to install some additional software.

Text editor

A decent text editor will be very useful to view CSV and XML files. There are hundreds of text editors—both free and paid-for—and here are some recommendations if you don't already have a favorite:

  • If you are using a Linux operating system, you will probably have at least one good text editor installed as part of your distribution. gedit (http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/) is the official text editor of the GNOME project and will do the job admirably.
  • Windows users can download Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/), which really is a double-plus compared to the default Notepad application that Windows provides. ...

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