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bbPress integration with WordPress

root — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:37:28 +0000

Michele wrote an interesting article about how to integrate bbPress data into a WordPress blog, it’s very useful for who admin blog and forum for one single project.

mnoGoSearch

root — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:46:51 +0000

mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search engine that you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields. It supports Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, InterBase/Firebird, Openlink Virtuoso, Intersystems Caché, iODBC, EasySoft ODBC, and unixODBC database backends. It has XML, HTML, and TEXT built-in support, and external converters support for other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with basic authorization support, and you may index password-protected intranet HTTP servers with proxy authorization support.

Visit it: mnoGoSearch

Swish-e

root — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:46:22 +0000

Swish-e is a fast, flexible, and free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files. Swish-e is ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller. Using the GNOME™ libxml2 parser and a collection of filters, Swish-e can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft® Word/PowerPoint/Excel and just about any file that can be converted to XML or HTML text. Swish-e is also often used to supplement databases like the MySQL® DBMS for very fast full-text searching.

Visit it: Swish-e

CakePHP

root — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:28:59 +0000

Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

Famfamfam

root — Tue, 16 May 2006 12:44:18 +0000

famfamfam.com is the website of Mark James, a part-time web developer, part-time student currently living in Birmingham. The site contains great free icons, very useful.

Visit it: http://www.famfamfam.com/

How to setup a MySQL cluster on Linux

root — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:33:49 +0000

An article on how to setup a MySQL DB cluster using two servers and a third server as a management node on Linux.

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grsecurity

root — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:47:02 +0000

grsecurity is an innovative approach to security utilizing a multi-layered detection, prevention, and containment model. It is licensed under the GPL.
It offers among many other features:

An intelligent and robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system that can generate least privilege policies for your entire system with no configuration
Change root (chroot) hardening
/tmp race prevention
Extensive auditing
Prevention of entire classes of exploits related to address space bugs (from the PaX project)
Additional randomness in the TCP/IP stack
A restriction that allows a user to only view his/her processes
Every security alert or audit contains the IP address of the person that caused the event

Visit it: http://www.grsecurity.org/

Chillispot

root — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:58:03 +0000

ChilliSpot is an open source captive portal or wireless LAN access point controller. It is used for authenticating users of a wireless LAN. It supports web based login which is today’s standard for public HotSpots and it supports Wireless Protected Access (WPA) which is the standard of the future. Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) is handled by your favorite radius server.

Visit it: http://www.chillispot.org/

The Perfect Linux Setup

root — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:34:09 +0000

“if you want to give Linux a run and see how to set it up step-by-step then this is the page for you.

Now a lot of these FAQ’s cover just the basic setup, not these! These FAQ’s take you WAY deep into Linux (we’re talking stuff like how to get Post Fix, DNS, SSH Server, etc…)”

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Top 100 Free Downloadable Fonts

root — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:40:14 +0000

Fonts such as “CocaCola”, “Disney”, “Evanescence”, “The Simpsons” “PlayStation”, “Austin Powers”, “Blade II”, “Matrix”, “Harry Potter”…even a super cool “Barcode” font!

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Add Color to Your Tabs in Firefox

root — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:38:22 +0000

In order to make the active tab easier to distinguish among the currently opened tabs, change the colors for the tabs…

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SynchroEdit

root — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:46:39 +0000

Synchronous Editing for the Web.
SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always have the same version.

Visit it: http://synchroedit.com/

PHPXref

root — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:34:10 +0000

PHP Cross Referencing Documentation Generator.
PHPXref is a developer tool that’s designed to ease the process of working on large PHP projects by making it very fast and easy to browse the code documentation along with the code itself.

It works by scanning a project directory and translating the files it finds into readable cross-referenced HTML, simultaneously utilizing comments in the code to produce documentation to accompany it.

The result is a collection of plain HTML files that can be read using any browser, with no supporting software required.

Visit it: http://phpxref.sourceforge.net/

Open Clip Art Library

root — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:05:48 +0000

This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.

Visit it: http://www.openclipart.org/

Codase

root — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:33:00 +0000

Codase is the leading source code search company with advanced source code understanding and xml index/search technologies. Rather than treating code as text, Codase understands programming languages, and treats code as code, the way it’s supposed to be. This unique and syntax-aware approach provides the most accurate and detailed search results with fine granularity levels of controls. With Codase, one can search functions, classes, strings, constants, macros, comments and other programming language constructs.

Visit it: http://www.codase.com

WordPress Hooks

root — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:18:01 +0000

A directory of all of WordPress’ hooks. Very much a work in progress! very useful for wordpress hackers and developers.

Visit it: http://wphooks.flatearth.org/

Wsfinder

root — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:17:48 +0000

The Wiki for Finding Web Service and Open APIs.

Visit it: http://www.wsfinder.com/

OpenWengo

root — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:36:58 +0000

OpenWengo is an open source project, initiated by the French company Wengo, itself backed by neuf telecom. Our goal is to provide a standards-based VoIP platform – we are committed to providing unlimited free telephony and enhanced features to our users, while promoting innovative usage-driven services.

Visit it: http://www.openwengo.com/

Softpedia

root — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:45:51 +0000

Softpedia is a library of over 35,000 free and free-to-try software programs for Windows and Unix/Linux,games and drivers.

Visit it: http://www.softpedia.com/

Glimmr

root — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:21:07 +0000

Glimmr is a photo uploader for the Flickr web service. Flickr is an online photo gallery, a blog engine, and a community where users upload and share photos and commentary.
As an uploader, Glimmr is responsible for editing photo metadata (such as the Title and Description), and uploading the photos to Flickr.

Visit it: http://glimmr.sourceforge.net/