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Documentation Generators

Docco – literate-programming-style documentation generator

October 12, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator which is written in CoffeScript. This is free and open source software.

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TCPDF – PHP class for generating PDF documents

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

TCPDF is a PHP library for generating PDF documents on-the-fly. TCPDF is free and open source software. Written by Nicola Asuni.

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Web Browsers

eww – web browser in Emacs

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

There are a number of reasons why browsing the web within Emacs may be useful. Browsing is fast, and the user can focus on reading.

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Web Browsers

Lynx – text web browser

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Lynx is a fully-featured free and open source web browser running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators.

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Web Browsers

ELinks – feature-rich text mode web browser

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables.

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Web Browsers

w3m – text-based web browser and terminal pager

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like ‘more’ or ‘less’. w3m is free and open source software.

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Web Browsers

Links – open source text and graphic web browser

October 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Links is a graphics and text mode web browser. Links is free and open source software written in the C language.

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Database

Apache Jackrabbit – implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Database

The Apache Jackrabbit is an open source implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API written in C#.

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Database

RavenDB – NoSQL Document Database

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Database

RavenDB is the industry’s first fully-transactional, NoSQL ACID database that combines scalability, high-availability, speed and performance.

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Database

RethinkDB – distributed document-oriented database

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Database

RethinkDB is an open-source scalable database built for realtime applications written in the C++ programming language.

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Database

Apache CouchDB – database management server

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Database

Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented, non-relational database management server accessible using a RESTful JSON API.

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Database

CrateDB – distributed SQL database management

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Database

CrateDB is a distributed SQL database that makes it simple to store and analyze massive amounts of data in real-time.

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Database

BaseX – XML database engine

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Big Data, Database

BaseX is both a lightweight, high-performance and scalable open source XML Database engine and XPath/XQuery 3.0 Processor.

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Web Content Management Systems

Fae – CMS for Rails

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Fae delivers all the basics to get you up and running: authentication/authorization, a responsive UI, form helpers and workflows.

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Web Content Management Systems

Refinery – create custom content manageable websites

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Refinery CMS is a content management system for Rails 6.0+. This is free and open source software, written in Ruby.

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Web Content Management Systems

Publify – simple web publishing software

October 10, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Publify is a simple but full featured web publishing software. It’s built around a blogging engine and a small message system.

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Web Content Management Systems

Locomotive – open source platform to create, publish and edit websites (CMS)

October 9, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Locomotive is a platform to create, publish and edit sites (Content Management System). Locomotive is free and open source software.

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Data Tools

ext4magic – recover deleted or overwritten files

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

ext4magic is a Linux admin tool.It can help to recover deleted or overwritten files on ext3 and ext4 filesystems.

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Data Tools

Scalpel – data carving tool

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Scalpel is a data carving and indexing application. Scalpel is not under active maintenance. This is free and open source software.

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Data Tools

Foremost – recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures

October 8, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

Foremost is a terminal-based program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.

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