Filed under 'oss'
➠ June 21, 2010
Slide, Inc. - open source
Some Python libraries opensourced from the Slide codebase. “wirebin”, the superfast object serializer, is my favourite.
➠ June 14, 2010
➠ December 31, 2009
namebench
Handy open source tool from Google to analyze DNS servers and see if it might be worth switching away from your ISP’s default.
➠ August 2, 2009
Tig: text-mode interface for git
Dead handy ncurses-based browser for git. It makes git diffs and blames much more manageable.
➠ March 15, 2009
redis
Key-value datastore. Fast like memcached, but persists to disk and can deal with pushing and popping with lists and sets. Just the thing to solve some of the problems I’ve been having with my RDBMS on a project I’m hacking on.
➠ February 20, 2009
Supervisor
Handy lightweight process-launcher-and-watcher. Features like “restart this process if it swallows too much resident memory” are going to be handy.
➠ December 10, 2008
ack -- better than grep
Why am I only finding this now? A smart replacement for the “find . | xargs grep” recipe I use on a daily basis.
➠ July 21, 2008
Ophcrack
Windows password cracker. Has an interesting open-source business model: The cracker is GPL, and there are free (but limited) Rainbow tables. To get the full tables, you need to pay $99.
➠ July 15, 2008
Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
Open-source app which logs your laptop’s network location (and optionally a snapshot from the webcam) to a DHT distributed database at irregular intervals.
➠ May 14, 2008
XBMC on OS X
Port of the XBox Media Center to OS X. Works with the Apple Remote, making it more elegant than my usual VLC + Sofa Control combination. Looks good.
➠ January 14, 2008
Shelf - jerakeen.org
Cool prototype application by Tom Insam which monitors your foreground application in OS X, and tries to provide you some context by matching it to someone in your Address Book. It’s early days yet, but decidedly cool (and written in Python)
➠ December 12, 2007
IronPython Studio
Free development environment for Python code under .NET. Will definitely be having an in-depth play with this soon.
➠ November 30, 2007
➠ August 3, 2007
Welcome to Hadoop!
Open-source project to allow the creation of massive massively-parallelized systems. I’m so glad my CompSci course taught me about parallel programming in 1997, because it’s only going to become more important.
Ohloh, the open source network
Open-source-software social network, tracking both projects and people.
➠ June 5, 2007
movabletype.org: Welcome to MTOS: the Movable Type Open Source Project
MovableType to be GPLed. I’ll take “Two Years Too Late” for $400, please, Alex.
➠ April 3, 2007
phpsh -- an interactive shell for php
This could come in handy for sanity checking syntax when writing PHP. Bizarrely, it’s mostly written in Python!
➠ November 24, 2006
WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License
I was pondering what license I apply to Twadget. I think I’ve found my man.
➠ November 2, 2006
Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)