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This is a fork of the popular ADO.NET adapter for SQLite known as System.Data.SQLite. The originator of System.Data.SQLite, Robert Simpson, is aware of this fork, has expressed his approval, and has commit privileges on the new Fossil repository. The SQLite development team intends to maintain System.Data.SQLite moving forward.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Wildly popular open-source media player VLC has updated to version 2.0 and brought a mountain of new and upgraded features with it–including enhanced codec support, hardware decoding, and experimental Blu-ray support.

The new release is a substantial overhaul of the VLC platform that includes a rewritten video output core, half a dozen new video filter algorithms to clean up video and provide a smoother viewing experience, audio resamplers, faster audio processing, multi-thread processor support for popular video formats like H.264, enhanced hardware support for CrystalHD cards and other hardware decoders, and even experimental support of Blu-ray playback.

Very cool...
Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

Raphaël ['ræfeɪəl] uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. This means every graphical object you create is also a DOM object, so you can attach JavaScript event handlers or modify them later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing vector art compatible cross-browser and easy.

Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome 5.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

In order to embed the configuration data in the .config file the section name must be identified to the .NET config file parser using a configSections element. The section must specify the log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler that will be used to parse the config section. This type must be fully assembly qualified because it is being loaded by the .NET config file parser not by log4net. The correct assembly name for the log4net assembly must be specified. The following is a simple example configuration file that specifies the correct section handler to use for the log4net section.

EPPlus is a .net library that reads and writes Excel 2007/2010 files using the Open Office Xml format (xlsx).

This is a really cool digital graphics art sostware...
Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.

Nice!

Optimized for high-performance pure string-based rendering, without DOM or jQuery dependency. (Current version - "codeless" tag syntax)

Next-generation jQuery Templates, optimized for high-performance pure string-based rendering, without DOM or jQuery dependency.

Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others.
Classic Shell Web Site

Posts Tagged ‘Backbone.js’
Backbone.js by example – Part 1
Posted on January 11, 2012, 10:11 pm, by Chaker Nakhli, under Scripting.

Backbone.js is a Javascript MVC (model-view-controller) library that provides complete support for building clean and easy to maintain client side code. What I like in Backbone.js is its light weight (~4.5kb) and that it doesn’t get in my way by imposing how my application should be architected or organised. Backbone.js is not even restricted to [...]

This is pretty cool...The Perception Manager is a Java class that abstracts the raw Android Sensor API into higher-level ‘percepts,’ effectively translating hundreds of samples a second from the accelerometer and gyroscope into binary features like “shaking” or “upside down”.

ODB is an open-source, cross-platform and cross-database object-relational mapping (ORM) system for C++. It allows you to persist C++ objects to a relational database without having to deal with tables, columns, or SQL and without manually writing any mapping code. The following example shows an ordinary C++ class on the left and its persistent version on the right.

...not going to lay out all the functionality and the capability or the performance matrix of the Dapper.NET library. You can read them on your own here. But, I will lay out some of the things that have been very very useful for our project.

Some of our queries requires some joins and doing the joins in LINQ is a bit slow compared to a simple join statement in the straight SQL. Sometimes we go all the way to make view for the join and encapsulate the call in a stored procedure, and then call it using Dapper.
For any LINQ that uses "CONTAINS", we revert to Dapper (using "IN" in straight SQL).
Multiple results query. This actually something that Dapper allows us to do. Previously we have to make several query calls to get multiple results. But with Dapper, we can make 1 call.

Project Vision: DotSpatial aims to provide a free, open source, consistent and dependable set of libraries for .NET, Silverlight and Mono, enabling developers to easily incorporate spatial data, analysis, and mapping into their applications thereby unleashing the massive potential of GIS in solutions for organizations and communities of all types in a nonrestrictive way.

Bauble is a software application to help you (yes you) manage a collection of botanical specimens. It is intended to be used by botanic gardens, herbaria, arboreta, etc. to manage their collection information. It is a open, free, cross-platform alternative to BG-Base and similiar software.

The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human race.

OsmocomBB is an Free Software / Open Source GSM Baseband software implementation.

It intends to completely replace the need for a proprietary GSM baseband software, such as

drivers for the GSM analog and digital baseband (integrated and external) peripherals
the GSM phone-side protocol stack, from layer 1 up to layer 3

In short: By using OsmocomBB on a compatible phone, you are able to make and receive phone calls, send and receive SMS, etc. based on Free Software only.

In my opinion Drupal is better for more complicated sites...Joomla (and Wordpress) can be extended to function as more complex websites but their great strength is that out of the box they can provide the majority of functionality that's needed for a basic website; essentially Joomla is more of an 'off-the-shelf' solution while Drupal is a lot more powerful (it's entire makeup is extensible and modular) but requires more configuration and a slightly steeper learning curve.

Check out this article, very good comparison of Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6. The line that sticks out more than any other to me is:

Drupal 7.0 remains the more powerful framework and indeed extends its lead.

On the same grounds, if you can master it, Drupal 7.0 is the best CMS.

Drupal 7 offers updating from within your website. From within the administration Update Manager, a list of updates are shown, from which you can select all or specific modules. You then provide FTP or SSH details and Drupal will download and install the patches.

Drupal 7's new administrative interface and built-in image and field handling boost both usability and power

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

This subreddit is dedicated to organizing and creating a global mesh network that will establish a truly free internet.

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over a decade, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology. You can learn about mIRC here.

Features-These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

Looks like an interesting game...The Schemaverse is a space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database. Compete against other players using raw SQL commands to command your fleet. Or, if your PL/pgSQL-foo is strong, wield it to write AI and have your fleet command itself!

Creating a new C++ project from scratch can involve a lot of tedium and overhead. The purpose of this project is to provide a template which can be easily modified to create your own C++ project with minimal effort. Key features of this template include:

Provides a simple environment for C++ game development on Android 2.1+ devices. It is in the public domain, but please consider contributing back changes to improve it.

For those working on Windows, it also includes a Visual Studio 2010 express C++ project which allows you to build and use intellisense from within visual studio, although this is optional.

The Naive-Bayes classifier takes test data in the NPSML document format and classifies it according to a Naive Bayes feature model created by nb-learn. To minimize the possiblity of wasted effort, run the test data through nps-dataCheck before feeding it to nb-classify. Otherwise, there is a possibility of badly formatted data producing a convincing (but wrong) result.

Anyone have any experience? Good or bad! :); Nope. As long as you put any code that is dependent on the loading files inside head.ready {} then you will not face any problems with your code.

The Apple effect looks and behaves like you might have seen on apple.com... Overlaying is done in a visually appealing way by growing a background image from 0 to the desired size. If you choose to use this effect you are tied to the dimensions of the image. You can change the width but the height changes accordingly so that the aspect ratio remains the same.
/* black version of the overlay. simply uses a different background image */
div.apple_overlay.black {
background-image:url(http://static.flowplayer.org/tools/img/overlay/transparent.png);
color:#fff;
}

div.apple_overlay h2 {
margin:10px 0 -9px 0;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:14px;
}

div.black h2 {
color:#fff;
}

#apple {
margin-top:10px;
text-align:center;
}

#apple img {
background-color:#fff;
padding:2px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
margin:2px 5px;
cursor:pointer;
-moz-border-radius:4px;
-webkit-border-radius:4px;
}
$(function(# {
$#"#apple img[rel]"#.overlay#{effect: 'apple'}#;
});

Overlaying is done in a visually appealing way by growing a background image from 0 to the desired size. If you ch

We now have 108 high-quality videos in the BSD Conferences channel. These videos have been watched in aggregate over 400,000 times, and our most popular video remains McKusick's FreeBSD Kernel Internals Lecture.

Wireless Geographic Logging Engine: Making maps of wireless networks since 2001

The SqlMonitoring tool makes it possible to monitor SQL 2000, 2005, 2008 environments and send alerts to a central database (SQL 2008). A client can be used to view the alerts en perform actions on them. This tool is a good alternative if you do not have the budget or infrastructure for tools like SCOM.

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

Looks interesting. Uses Lua...What is bam? Bam is a fast and flexible build system. Bam uses Lua to describe the build process. It's takes its inspiration for the script files from scons. While scons focuses on being 100% correct when building, bam makes a few sacrifices to acquire fast full and incremental build times.

Looks just about right...Lightweight Multi-Tenant Blog Engine. Jab is a lightweight blog engine and CMS for Mono.

Pretty cool. It's geting so I no longer need to write one...Dapper is a single file you can drop in to your project that will extend your IDbConnection interface.

ODB 1.3.0 was released today.

In case you are not familiar with ODB, it is an object-relational mapping (ORM) system for C++. It allows you to persist C++ objects to a relational database without having to deal with tables, columns, or SQL, or manually writing any of the mapping code.

As usual, for the complete list of changes see the official ODB 1.3.0 announcement. But the most important new feature in this release is no doubt support for the SQLite embedded database. Below I am going to examine this in more detail.

This caught my attention and I thought, why not implement the same benchmark for ODB C++ ORM and see how it stacks up against the C# crowd?

yEd Graph Editor is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams.
Create your diagrams manually or import your external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button.

This is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial. This means you can collaborate on Git based projects from Mercurial, or use a Git server as a collaboration point for a team with developers using both Git and Mercurial.

Warning, this software is still beta.

...A couple of weeks ago we posted a tutorial on using SQLite in PHP. I thought I'd expand on that tutorial and demonstrate how to work with SQLite using C# and .NET. In this tutorial, we're going to build a simple wrapper class around the SQLite c/c++ interface.

...Fortunately, the savvy .NET Framework developer realizes that accessing a native DLL is really just an exercise in P/Invoke declarations, and it’s relatively easy to create a wrapper class around the native declarations exposed in the SQLite DLL. In fact, for the basics, as with so many things in the open source community, it’s already been done; navigate to switchonthecode.com/tutorials/csharp-tutorial-writing-a-dotnet-wrapper-for-sqlite, and we find a working set of P/Invoke declarations already laid down, shown in Figure 1.

This article describes CppSQLite, a very thin C++ wrapper around the public domain SQLite database library.

A description of how to link applications with SQLite is provided, then an example program using CppSQLite is presented, and finally the CppSQLite classes are documented.

A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.

...A commenter brought to light a new library called Fluent Assertions that captured much of the NUnit fluency, and which could be leveraged by MSTest to hopefully achieve the same code clarity that I see NUnit bringing to the table. While I originally said I wanted to explore out-of-the-box options, the ease with which you can install NuGet-enabled packages these days just about nullifies any installation overhead associated with said packages.

This post revisits the MSTest vs. NUnit debate in that light.

...NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge.

Looks nice, but a hassle to install on Windows.
...Redmine is a flexible project management web application written using Ruby on Rails framework.

This is really cool.
...It’s no secret that I like building music visualizers, or that I’ve been playing with HTML5 a fair amount lately. Given that, I thought I’d combine the two interests, and build a music visualizer using JS, the canvas & audio elements in HTML5, and the EaselJS framework.

...The new Canvas element in HTML5 is powerful, but it can be difficult to work with. It has no internal concept of discrete display elements, so you are required to manage updates manually. The Easel Javascript library provides a retained graphics mode for canvas including a full, hierarchical display list, a core interaction model, and helper classes to make working with Canvas much easier

This is a very cool editor. Simple, calming...
Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

STORM is a free and open source tool for testing web services.

Somehow Visual Studio doesn't come with an option to only auto increment the build version of the AssemblyFileVersion attribute. Sure, by placing an * in the AssemblyVersion attribute and leaving the the AssemblyFileVersion out the compiler will auto generate build versions for both but this is a pain to maintain when you're releasing signed assemblies. Besides I don't feel like grabbing a calculator just to see when version 1.0.3394.25054 has been build. I needed a little more control.

TinyOS is an open source, BSD-licensed operating system designed for low-power wireless devices, such as those used in sensor networks, ubiquitious computing, personal area networks, smart buildings, and smart meters. A worldwide community from academia and industry use, develop, and support the operating system as well as its associated tools, averaging 35,000 downloads a year.

Summary: This article introduces a new version of XML Notepad. The tool was first introduced in 1998 but has been unavailable for several years. This version leverages System.Xml and adds new features.

Project Description: XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents.

This will be useful... The WriteableBitmapEx library is a collection of extension methods for Silverlight's WriteableBitmap. The WriteableBitmap class that was added in Silverlight 3 and is also available on Windows Phone, allows the direct manipulation of a bitmap and could be used to generate fast procedural images by drawing directly to a bitmap. The WriteableBitmap API is very minimalistic and there's only the raw Pixels array for such operations. The WriteableBitmapEx library tries to compensate that with extensions methods that are easy to use like built in methods and offer GDI+ like functionality. The library extends the WriteableBitmap class with elementary and fast (2D drawing) functionality, conversion methods and functions to combine (blit) WriteableBitmaps.

This guy seems tyo keep and up-to-date installer. Decided to use.
...
The SciTE Text Editor, whilst being one of the most lightweight editors available, is also one of the best. I created my own package simply to provide a one-stop setup for SciTE with all the extras I, and probably most other people need.

Unhosted
Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms

Unhosted is a project for strengthening free software against hosted software. With our protocol, a website is only source code. Dynamic data is encrypted and decentralised, to per-user storage nodes. This benefits free software, as well as scalability, robustness, and online privacy.

A Lua-based Build Tool (ala Rake)

Object Oriented CSS Framework

Lots of c free routines here...That nice snippets of C code should be moved out of junkcode directories and exposed to a wider world, where they can become something useful.

CCAN is loosely modelled after the successful CPAN project for Perl code development and sharing.

Wikisource is an online library of free content publications, collected and maintained by our community. We now have 153,102 texts in the English language library. See our inclusion policy and help pages for information on getting started, and the community portal for ways you can contribute. Feel free to ask questions on the community discussion page, and to experiment in the sandbox.

WinPcap is the industry-standard tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments: it allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack, and has additional useful features, including kernel-level packet filtering, a network statistics engine and support for remote packet capture.

...This is my implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown text to html language. There’s not much here that differentiates it from any of the existing Markdown implementations except that it’s written in C

Mongoose is easy to use web server. It can be embedded into existing application to provide a web interface to it.

Mongoose executable does not depend on any external library or configuration. If it is copied to any directory and executed, it starts to serve that directory on port 8080 (so to access files, go to http://localhost:8080). If some additional config is required - for example, different listening port or IP-based access control, then a mongoose.conf file with respective options (see example) can be created in the same directory where executable lives. This makes Mongoose perfect for all sorts of demos, quick tests, file sharing, and Web programming.

Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.

C web server...
This journal runs as CGI with thttpd (plus patches) on OpenBSD, the source code is BSD licensed. Search engine is ht://Dig. undeadly \Un*dead"ly\, a. Not subject to death; immortal. [Obs.]

...I recently started using Vim as my primary editor. As I’m adjusting I’m finding a lot of the blog posts people have written about Vim very helpful, so I’m hoping this post will help people too.

Manos is an easy to use, easy to test, high performance web application framework that stays out of your way and makes your life ridiculously simple.

HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.

After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on.

Looks promising...The DemocraKey X (Version 4.0) is now available for immediate download. The DemocraKey now includes a launcher which runs upon key insertion. It brings up a window allowing you to build Truecrypt Volumes, Mount Encrypted Drives, Surf anonymous, Send Encryted Email, Run a Virus Scan, and more.

Nice...Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It enables you to write and receive email messages signed and/or encrypted with the OpenPGP standard.

Sending and receiving encrypted and digitally signed email is simple using Enigmail.

You can show Rss Feeds ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​on your website, the user can add the rss feeds easely to a webrowser

With Password Safe, a free Windows utility designed by Bruce Schneier, users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination--just one thing to remember--unlocks them all.

Password Safe protects passwords with the Twofish encryption algorithm, a fast, free alternative to DES. The program's security has been thoroughly verified by Counterpane Labs under the supervision of Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography and creator of the Twofish algorithm.

How to write a scintilla lexer
Lexer organization
There are at least two ways to organize the code of each lexer. Present
lexers use what might be called a "character-based" approach: the outer
loop iterates over characters, like this:
...
An alternative would be to use a "state-based" approach. The outer loop
would iterate over states, like this:
...