This Christmas I decided to give a few gifts to people in the open source community. I'm making donations to the maintainers of some of my favorite and most widely used software projects. They've earned some payback!

Most of the programs I depend on the most, I've discovered, are actually not big ones -- they're little things, applications that fill in the gaps, and that make my work all the easier.

The first big open source project that gets a little of my Christmas cheer is the PortableApps suite, an incredibly useful bundle of no-install-needed editions of popular open-source programs.

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