Useful Resources for Pega Community

Here is the curated list of free or useful links for people working with Pega.
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Important Pegasystem Links

Pega Academy (academy.pega.com) : The source for training, documentation, and career-building as a Pega Developer.

Pega Cosmos (design.pega.com) : A webpage to know about COSMOS UX – user-centric research, modularity, and an agile design method drive the world’s best enterprise application design system.

Download Personal Edition (Digital Delivery) : To download the latest version of the Pega Personal edition to your computer.

Whats New in Pega (Knowledgebase) : Browse new features added in the latest version of Pega release.

Pega Certification (academy.pega.com) : List of all certifications available and certification paths in Pega.

Pega Help Document (community.pega.com) : A complete development guide for Latest version of Pega (v8.4)

Pega JSP tags (community.pega.com) : A collection of all JSP tags available in Pega which can be used in correspondence or custom code.

Pega Java API (community.pega.com) : The Java development document of latest version of Pega (v8.4)

Help Forums

Pega Collaboration Center (collaborate.pega.com) – A official forum to ask Pega questions, share unique experiences, and solve problems with the experts.

OSP Pega Forum (ask.onestoppega.com) – An independent Pega forum to discuss with like-minded people.

StackOverFlow (stackoverflow.com) : The largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share​ ​their programming ​knowledge, and build their careers.

Blogs

OneStopPega (onestoppega.com) : A Single Destiny To Quench Your Pega Thirst !

MyKnowPega (myknowpega.com) : Pega knowledge sharing – A drop from the ocean

PegaForEngineers (pegaforengineers.com) : A melting pot of information to get you kitted-out with a few tools, tips and tactics you need in pega to be able to start, run, support,grow and help us grow in these fast changing times.

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Mail

10minutesmail (10minutemail.com) : A disposable email service for testing and to beat spam.

Mailtrap (mailtrap.io) : A fake SMTP server for development teams to test, view and share emails sent from the development and staging environments without spamming.

PostDrop (app.postdop.io) : A tool to help developers with building, customizing and testing HTML email.

Sendgrid (sendgrid.com) : A cloud-based email delivery platform.  The Free Plan can Send 40,000 emails for 30 days, then 100/day forever.

YopMail (yopmail.com) : YOPmail creates temporary inboxes of your choice instantaneously. You Name it, YOPmail has it! Use Now & stay Protected!

Webservices & Networking

Postman (postman.com) : A complete API development Environmnent setup in your system.

ReqBin (reqbin.com) : An online API testing and prototyping tool. Test your API by posting REST, SOAP, and HTTP API requests right from your browser.

Fiddler (telerik.com/fiddler) : A free web debugging tool which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.

FileZilla (filezilla-project.org) : The free FTP solution for both client and server.

Putty (putty.org) : A free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection.

WinSCP (winscp.net) : A free and open-source SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and SCP client for Microsoft Windows.

cURL (curl.haxx.se) : A library and command-line tool for transferring data using various network protocols. 

SOAP UI (soapui.org) : A opensource SOAP and REST API testing tool.

JSON Placeholder(typicode.com) : Fake Online REST API for Testing and Prototyping.

Productivity

If This Then That (ifttt.com) : A FREEWARE which helps you to connect with different apps and devices to automate web-application tasks.

Grammerly (grammarly.com) : A free writing app to make their online writing clear and effective.

Trello (trello.com) : Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.

Todoist (todoist.com) : A tool that helps people and teams to organize, plan, and collaborate on tasks and projects.

Draw.io (draw.io) : A Free online diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network diagrams.

ScreenCapture and Recording

Loom (loom.com) : A free app for screen recording and sharing in a single click.

Awesome Screenshot (Chrome WebStore) : A free tool to Screenshot , Record and Annote from browser.

Utilities

Samltest.id (samltest.id) : A free SAML 2.0 testing service. 

Encoder & Decoder (motobit.com) : A website for base64 decoding and encoding with file import support.

Guite Toolbox (googleapps.com): A collection of tools that will be helpful in debugging web-related problems.

XML utilities (codebeautify.org): An all in one online XML tools.

JSON Formatter (curiousconcepont) – A online tool to format and inspect JSON.

Regex101 (regex101.com) : A online library for finding common regular expression.

BuildRegex (buildregex.com) : Build regular expression for JS visually.

DirtyMarkup (10bestdesign.com) : To format HTML, CSS and JS online.

DevDocs (devdocs.io) : A single place for documentation for all popular language and library.

CDNJS (cdnjs.com) – A place to find CDN for popular JS libraries.

IDEs

VSCode (visualstudio.com) : Visual Studio Code is a Lightweight code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

Notepad++ (notepad-plus-plus.org) : Notepad++ is a text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. A replacement to notepad.

Intellij IDEA (jetbrains.com) : An advance JAVA IDE with all essential developer tools.

Eclipse (eclipse.org) : An Opensource IDE for any language.

Online Compilers

IdeaOne (ideaone.com) : An online compiler and debugging tool which allows you to compile source code and execute it online in more than 60 programming languages. Use Java compiler to test Java code before importing it into Pega.

CodePen (codepen.com) : A best place to build, test, and discover front-end code.

JSFiddle (jsfiddle.net) : Test your JavaScript, CSS, HTML or CoffeeScript online.

StackBlitz (stackblitz.com) : In Your Browser.Create, edit & deploy fullstack apps — in just one click.

CodeSandbox (codesandbox.io) : An instant IDE and prototyping tool for rapid web development.

Cloud Service & Hosting Webpages

Heroku (heroku.com) : Developers can build, deploy, and run apps for free using a full range of free cloud services available through the Heroku platform and ecosystem.

Netlify (netlify.com) : Deploy modern static websites with Netlify. Get CDN, Continuous deployment, 1-click HTTPS, and all the services you need for FREE. Use Netlify Drop do deploy webpage to the internet in a drag.

Firebase (firebase.com) : One Platform To Build Mobile Apps, Improve Their Quality, And Grow Your Users. Build Fast For Any Device. Build Extraordinary Apps. For Mobile or Web Apps.

Vercel (vercel.com) : The easiest way to deploy websites. Host your web projects with zero configuration, automatic SSL, and global CDN.

Imgur (imgur.com) : Free and Easy image hosting with no bandwidth limits.

Helpful Browser Extensions

200 OK Web Server (Chrome Webstore) : A Web Server for Chrome, serves web pages from a local folder over the network, using HTTP. Runs offline.

iMacros (Chrome Webstore) : Automate your task in your browser. Record and replay repetitious work.

CSS Used (Chrome Webstore) : An Extension to get all css rules used by the selected DOM and its children.

ColorZilla (Chome Webstore) : Color Picker, Eye Dropper, Gradient Generator and many additional advanced color tools on browser.

CSS peeper (Chrome Webstore) : An Extension to Inspect styles in a simple, well-organized & beautiful way.

Custom Javascript (Chrome Webstore) : An Extension to inject custom javascript in any website.

Database

DBeaver (dbeaver.io) : Free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc.

pgAdmin (pgadmin.org) : pgAdmin is the most popular and feature-rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL.

SQL WorkBench (sql-workbench.eu) : A free, DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL query tool. It is written in Java and should run on any operating system that provides a Java Runtime Environment.

Oracle SQL Developer (oracle.com) : Oracle SQL Developer is a free, integrated development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments.

MySQL Workbench (mysql.com) : MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more.

Useful Softwares

Node JS (nodejs.org) : Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. It is necessary to build modern web applications.

Git (git-scm.com) : Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency


Last Updated – July 30th 2020. If you wish to add up any free resource or tool with free credits that help Pega people, mention it here.

*OneStopPega is not endorsing any products listed above. Use at your own risk.