missingno provides a small toolset of flexible and easy-to-use missing data visualizations and utilities that allows you to get a quick visual summary of the completeness (or lack thereof) of your dataset. Features include: Data-dense display which lets you quickly
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Grok – Web Framework Based on Zope Toolkit Technology
Grok is an open source web application framework that lets you create flexible, agile web applications. Based on Zope Toolkit technology, the framework is targeted at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok is both easy and powerful. Grok
Read moreShadow Daemon – Modular Web Application Firewall
Shadow Daemon is a collection of open source tools to detect, record and prevent attacks on web applications. In other words, Shadow Daemon is a web application firewall that intercepts requests and filters out malicious parameters. Shadow Daemon is a
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Excellent No-Charge Linux Books – Learn About Linux – For Beginners
Many no-charge e-books are, frankly, little more than spam bait, often published only to entice you to purchase a book from the same publisher. Poorly written, and with very little original content. Whereas the recommended texts below are definitely worth downloading. They’ll teach you the basics about Linux and so much more. They’re the ideal starting point for your Linux adventures. And you don’t have to divulge any personal information to get your hands on them.
Read moreIlluminating Linux Podcasts
Before starting with the survey, let’s deal with a couple of terms that are fundamental to this article. First, the word podcast. In simple terms, a podcast is rich media, such as audio or video, distributed via RSS. Podcast derives
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Linux Basement Linux Basement is an informational podcast about Linux, open source software, and technology. It offers pretty good coverage of the latest interesting news in the field of Linux and related areas. Chad Wollenberg, billed as a Freedom Hater
Read moreCreate Apps with Excel Workbook Authoring Skills Using ExcelRT 1.1
Excel Software is shipping ExcelRT 1.1 with enhancements for creating standalone desktop and mobile apps from an Excel workbook. With ExcelRT, a Microsoft Excel user without programming experience can become an app developer for Mac, Windows, Linux and iOS for iPhone or iPad.
Read morelnav – advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
lnav is the logfile navigator, an open source curses-based tool for viewing and analyzing log files. It looks for any semantic information gleaned from the files being reviewed such as timestamps and log levels. lnav can do things like interleaving
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Handy Disk Image Tools
There are a number of different ways of mounting an ISO image under Linux. The venerable mount command offers an easy solution. But if you need tools that offer more functionality for working with disk images, try some of the following excellent open source tools.
Read moreOnline Grades and Attendance – educational software
Online Grades is a popular open source project which allows K-12+ student grades to be posted onto a dynamic web site. The software accepts grade export information from popular gradebook software programs including Easy Grade Pro, Gradekeeper, Misty City’s Grade
Read moreOwnCloud Documents – ownCloud app
ownCloud Documents is an ownCloud app to work with office documents alone and/or collaboratively. It allows up to 5 individuals to collaborate editing .odt and .doc files in a web browser. ownCloud is a self-hosted file sync and share server.
Read moreHackpad **AWOL**
Hackpad is an open source web-based realtime wiki, based on the open source EtherPad collaborative document editor. Hackpad allows users to share your docs realtime and it uses color coding to show which authors have contributed to which content. It
Read moreWrite Space – customizable, offline, and full-screen text-editor
Write Space is an installable web application for Google Chrome / Chromium and derived web browsers. It is a minimalist, full-screen text-editor that aims to be simple and distraction-free. Write Space is customizable with options accessible through Tools / Extensions
Read moreCalmly Writer – focus on writing
Calmly Writer is billed as the ultimate distraction-free writing tool. It has been designed to help you focus on writing. As you start typing, all the distracting options disappear from the interface. Calmly Writer also includes a “focus mode” option,
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Stencyl – game creation platform
Games created in Stencyl can be exported to the web via Adobe Flash Player, and to personal computers as executable game.
Read moreDDD – graphical front-end for command-line debuggers
The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular graphical user interface to debuggers such as GDB, DBX, XDB, JDB and others. The purpose of a debugger such as DDD is to allow you to see what is going on “inside”
Read moreGitHub – configuration management system
GitHub is currently the world’s largest, and most popular code hosting site. It is web-based and uses Git, an open-source version control system that was started by Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind the Linux kernel. GitHub provides distributed revision
Read moreBitbucket – Git and Mercurial Solution
Bitbucket is a Git and Mercurial based source code management and collaboration solution in the cloud. The software is written in Python using the Django web framework. Bitbucket provides Git and Mercurial code management for professional teams. Their main market
Read moreReplace SourceForge with these Better Alternatives
SourceForge is a long established web-based service that offers source code repository, downloads mirrors, bug tracker and other features. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage free and open-source software development. SourceForge has been
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Kube Web Framework – CSS & JS framework
Kube is a minimal, responsive, advanced web framework for professional developers and designers. Spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks.
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