Software View

Here's a great collection of web links personally accumulated by Kamal over many years accessed and valued by both local and foreign software developers. The collection is mainly about software, but some other categories of Kamal's interest (Mathematics, Electronics,...) appear at the bottom. New links are frequently added to this list (Last update: Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 08:23).

Your web browser's search facility (CTRL + F) will help you in effective navigation through this list. Link classification does not follow a strict hierarchy, but adjustments are constantly done to improve the navigability.

Resource Centers for Developers

• developerWorks
  IBM's resources for developers
• The Rational Edge
  An online journal for developers.
• Oracle Magazine
  Goodies for you to read (also online)...
• HP Dev Resource Central
• HP's developer & solution partner program - developer edge home
  Lots of goodies on various technologies...
• Intel Developer Services Home
• AMD Developer Central
  Access the latest software development tools, get discounts on AMD-powered computer products, interact with AMD technology experts, explore the Developer Toy Box, and more-only at AMD Developer Central.
• Open Source Development Lab Developer Resources
  Primarily Linux
• MOTODEV
  Motorola portal for developers.
• java.net
  java.net is the realization of a vision of a diverse group of engineers, researchers, technologists, and evangelists at Sun Microsystems, Inc. to provide a common area for interesting conversations and innovative development projects related to Java technology.
• Java Skyline: Magazine for J2EE Web services
  A great place to visit!
• JavaRanch - A Friendly Place for Java Greenhorns
  Meet the cows and learn Java! Superb place to visit.
• DDJ (Dr. Dobb's)
  Everything...
• Absolute Java FAQ Daily Tips: advices, tips, code, applets, java freeware, shareware - All Java Resources!!!
• ONJava.com: Java API Map
  An easy way to search the content at ONJava.
• dev2dev - Articles
  From BEA. A superb collection of articles.
• dev2dev Online: dev2dev Live!
  From BEA. A superb collection of webinars.
• Google Code - Google's Developer Network
• Software Engineering Radio
  Listen to the radio!
• Peter Norvig
  Lots of articles from Google's Director of Research

Unclassified Goodies

• Software Engineering Information Repository
  The purpose of the SEIR is to provide a forum for the contribution and exchange of information concerning software engineering improvement activities.
• Food for Thought
  Ha ha ha. Need anything else?
• Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions
• Reference Library (Orelly Books)
  A collection of online Orelly books. Books are a bit old but still useful resources.
• Online tutorials and interview questions
  Some nice books are here.
• SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides
  A great collection of study guides for free! Maths, Economics, Computer Science, Psychology and more... Guides have problems for you as well and contain answers.
• InformIT
  Books, articles, reference guides, ...
• Quick Reference Cards
  Here's a great collection of quick reference cards.
• TIOBE Software - The Coding Standards Company
  Want to know about coding standards?
• Sun BluePrints Program
  Lots of best practices are documented here. Mostly they are related with Sun's own technologies but you find lots of goodies for your own platform.
• Sun Microsystems - Documentation Center
  Go anywhere you want to go starting from this place...
• ACM: Association for Computing Machinery, the world's first educational and scientific computing society.
• The USENIX Association - The Advanced Computing Systems Association
• Google Scholar
  Find research papers and academic stuff. Pretty cool.
• Graphical User Interface Gallery
  Images of different user interface implementations.
• Computer software and computers - the best resources are on CompInfo
  Find The Best Sources of Computer Information
• Internet Archive
  The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. If you need to look at a web site that is not present now, see whether it is archieved here.
• The Programmer's File Format Collection
  This site contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.
• Koders - Source Code Search Engine
  A search engine for identifying and accessing open source code on the Internet. You can search by keyword, language, and license or perform advanced queries using enhanced syntax. Search results are then displayed in a developer-friendly format that makes it easy to understand the code in its original working context.
• The CAPTCHA Project.
  How to use funny looking images of characters that humans can understand and computers cannot understand to make only humans interact with your system?
• An Introduction to LDAP
• RFID: A Technology Overview
• HTTP Time Protocol (HTP)
• A Layman's Guide to ASN.1, BER, and DER
  These are a set of common rules for creating binary encodings in a platform independent manner.
• WebDAV
  The central resource for documentation, specifications, software, mailing lists, and other useful items on WebDAV.
• STSC CrossTalk - The Journal of Defence Software Engineering
• The Open Group
  The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium whose vision is to enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability.
• TIOBE Software - The Coding Standards Company
• my GUI guy - PDF2HTMLgui
  Convert pdf files into html
• Software Development Articles-UML, Agile, Java, .NET, Test, Project Management, SCM, ...
  Software development articles web directory : UML, Agile, software testing, programming, Java, .NET, project management
• How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack
  A mathematical discussion on Google's PageRanking
• Dr. Dobb's | Rounding Algorithms | December 28, 2006
  The mind boggles at the variety and intricacy of the rounding schemes that designers may choose, depending on application
• HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)
  An activity diagram to describe the resolution of the response status code, given various headers. Very good.
• IP2Location.com - Lookup IP address to Country, State, City, Netblock, Longitude and Latitude
  Lookup Country and Internet Service Provider (ISP) by IP Address
• The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
  Software Development Best Practices from the best-selling book 'The Pragmatic Programmer'.
• Domain Commandments for Internet Business Developers
  10 tips to determine a good domain name
• OER Commons
  OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use.
• Pipes: Rewire the web
  Graphically combine feeds and create more complex feeds
• Creating a multiplatform autorun CD
• Open Clip Art Library Drawing Together
  The Open Clip Art Library aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project must be placed into the Public Domain according to the Public Domain statement created by the Creative Commons. If you'd like to help out, please join the mailing list. Also, browse the archives to review the project's history.
• DevCentral - C++ Tutorials
  DevCentral - Articles and tutorials with easy to understand examples for the seasoned professional to the student.
• Zamzar - Free online file conversion
  Convert files
• NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
  The Network Neutrality Squad (NNSquad) is an open-membership, open-source effort, enlisting the Internet's users to help keep the Internet's operations fair and unhindered from unreasonable restrictions.
• Internet Speed Testers
  • Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test
    Test your Internet connection bandwidth to locations around the world with this interactive broadband speed test
  • CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test - Bandwidth Test
    The CNET Bandwidth Meter speed test will check the bandwidth and speed of your connection to DSL, cable modems, and more.
• World Wide Web Consortium Process Document

Tools for Developers

• Eclipse
  • Eclipse.org
    Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.
  • ECESIS
    The goal of the Eclipse Community Education Project (ECESIS) is to promote the creation, improvement and distribution of commercial and academic quality Eclipse courseware, education and training technologies, and resource material.
  • Introductory
    • A brief history of Eclipse
    • Getting started with the Eclipse Platform
  • Some Plugins
    • Eclipse - Omondo - The Live UML Company
      This is the UML plugin that I currently use.
    • Lomboz J2EE Plugin
      Here is a widely used J2EE plugin for Ecliplse supporting all Java application servers with flexible launching and debugging capability- Supported servers include JBoss, WebLogic Server, Tomcat, JOnAS, JRun, and almost any J2EE compliant server.
    • Lomboz Tutorials
      How to use the tool?
    • Easy Struts for Eclipse / JBuilder
      The Easy Struts project provides plug-ins for the Eclipse 2.0, Borland JBuilder 5, and Borland JBuilder 6 development environments to enable you to develop web applications based on the MVC design pattern provided by the Jakarta Struts framework.
    • JNDI Explorer for Eclipse by Renaud Waldura
      Explore a JNDI namespace using this Eclipse plugin.
    • JBoss-IDE
    • alphaWorks : JAR Class Finder
      JAR Class Finder is a WSAD/Eclipse plug-in utility for finding JAR files containing a given class for the Java build path of a project and for helping to fix NoClassDefFound exceptions.
    • Openknows Tomcat Eclipse's Plugin
    • EclipsePlugins : hi! Find your plugin for Eclipse here.
    • UMLet Homepage - Free UML Tool
      A simple and easy to use tool to create UML diagrams.
    • WebLogic Plugin 1.1.1 for Eclipse
    • Andrej Koelewijn: Using eclipse to debug your tomcat web application
    • The Eclipse Visual Editor Project
      The Eclipse Visual Editor project is a framework for creating GUI builders for Eclipse. It includes reference implementations of Swing/JFC and SWT GUI builders, but intends to be useful for creating GUI builders for other languages such as C/C++ and alternate widget sets, including those that are not supported under Java.
    • Create your own visualisations in Eclipse
      A good tutorial on Eclipse Visualizer. View the resources of your Eclipse project in different angles.
    • EclipseHTMLEditor
      Eclipse HTML Editor is an Eclipse plugin for HTML/JSP/XML Editing.
    • StrutsIDE
      StrutsIDE is an Eclipse plugin for web application development that used Struts.
    • CSS Editor (Eclipse Plugin)
    • MockCreator: Java Mock Generator
      Create mock objects with the help of this plugin.
    • Eclipse XML - XSLT Editor
    • E-BOB : Eclipse-Based Object Bench
      The Object Bench is a tool to create, view, and inspect objects in a visual manner for testing and learning purposes.
    • PHPEclipse.net
      A nice ide to php development.
  • Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
    • SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit
      SWT project site.
    • Eclipse Technical Articles on SWT
      From the Eclipse site.
    • The SWT FAQ
    • The SWT Community Page
      This page provides links to additional SWT ports, widgets, and applications maintained elsewhere in the community.
    • SWT Widgets - Screenshots
    • SWT Snippets
      A nice set of code shippets are available from this place.
    • Getting Started with Eclipse and the SWT
      A good set of tutorials on SWT, JFace and other aspects of development with Eclipse.
    • SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit
      PART 1: Implementation Strategy for Java Natives
    • SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit
      PART 2: Managing Operating System Resources. Guidelines are provided on how to release the resources properly.
    • Developing SWT applications using Eclipse
      Setting up Eclipse for SWT development is described here. (This is one approach which is easier.)
    • Equipping SWT applications with content assistants
    • Taking a look at SWT Images
    • DND in SWT
    • Writing Your Own Widget
    • SWT Color Model
    • Understanding Layouts in SWT
    • Custom widgets
    • Migrate your Swing application to SWT
    • Sleak
      A tool to detect memory leaks in SWT
    • How to use the JFace Tree Viewer
    • An Eclipse Nebula widgets primer
      The SWT toolkit offers a robust interface to the native widgets of the operating system it's running on. However, native widgets often aren't enough. The Eclipse Nebula project is working to bridge this gap with custom widgets for functionality, including calendaring and advanced tables. This tutorial demonstrates five Nebula widgets, including Grid, CDateTime, CompositeTable, PGroup, and PShelf.
  • Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
    • Rich Client Tutorial Part 1
    • Rich Client Tutorial Part 2
    • Rich Client Tutorial Part 3
    • Make your Eclipse applications richer with view linking
    • Branding your application
    • Concepts of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform: What It's All About
      A book excerpt
    • Explore Eclipse's embedded Rich Client Platform
      Get an introduction to the embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP). Learn about the various components that make up eRCP and get some examples on how to use them in your applications.
  • Eclipse Visual Editor
    • Visual Editor Tutorial
      This tutorial shows how to extend the Visual Editor to support a custom widget.
    • Build GUIs with the Eclipse Visual Editor project
    • Build GUIs with the Eclipse Visual Editor project
      In this article, you'll get an overview of Visual Editor and the technology behind it, along with a short demonstration of Visual Editor 0.5's features for building AWT/Swing applications and a preview of the SWT support in Visual Editor 1.0.
  • Web Tools Platform
    • Overview of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform
      A good read.
    • Introduction to the Web Tools Platform Project
      Seems to be a detailed presentation.
    • Building Web Applications with Eclipse, WTP, and Derby
      A very good article.
    • ONJava.com: Eclipse Web Tools
      This article gives you an overview of the WTP project, takes you on a tour of the great tools it has to offer.
    • Web Application Development with the Eclipse Web Tools Platform, Part I
      This EclipseWorld 2005 presentation discusses the Eclipse WTP, how to set up the WTP, and how to get started editing JSP pages, creating servlets, and running and deploying applications.
    • Generic Server - Server Definition File Explained
      How to define servers in WTP?
    • Debugging WTP projects using Cactus
    • Integrating existing maven project in Eclipse WTP.
    • Build a database-enabled auction Web service
      Based on Eclipse Web Tools Platform.
    • Build a Web-based auction client
      Based on Eclipse Web Tools Platform.
    • Reintroducing the Structured Source Editing family of editors
      A single file uses multiple languages (e.g. html/jsp) ? Here is a family of editors in Eclipse WTP.
    • XML tutorial on eclipse.org
  • SOA Tools Platform
    • Use the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform plug-in to build and deploy a Web service
      With the Eclipse STP plug-in, you can go from a Java interface, annotate it with Web service-related properties, create a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for the Web service, generate and code Java stubs you can then compile into a WAR file, and deploy on your favorite Web server. This tutorial shows you how to accomplish all this using the Eclipse STP plug-in.
  • EMF/GEF
    • A Shape Diagram Editor
      For a beginer, this is a good article to start with GEF.
    • Create an Eclipse-based application using the Graphical Editing Framework
      This article describes the initial steps involved in creating an Eclipse-based application using the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF).
    • Building a Database Schema Diagram Editor with GEF
    • Displaying a UML Diagram with Draw2D
    • IBM Redbooks | Eclipse Development using the Graphical Editing Framework and the Eclipse Modeling Framework
    • Using GEF with EMF
    • Model-driven development with the Eclipse Modeling Framework, Part 1
    • Model with the Eclipse Modeling Framework, Part 2
    • Model with the Eclipse Modeling Framework, Part 3
    • Create an Eclipse-based application using the Graphical Editing Framework
      This article describes the initial steps involved in creating an Eclipse-based application using the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF). GEF has been used to build a variety of applications for Eclipse, including state diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, GUI builders for AWT, Swing and SWT, and process flow editors. Eclipse and GEF are both open source technologies.
    • Metamodeling with EMF: Generating concrete, reusable Java snippets
      Learn how to extend the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) Ecore metamodel by adding elements and attributes to model reusable Java snippets. Also see, step by step, how to use dynamic templates with JET to generate the implementation code for the extended model elements.
  • GMF
    • GMF Project Web Site
      The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEF.
    • GMF Tutorial
      A good one,
    • Introducing the GMF Runtime
      Illustrates capabilities of GMF.
  • UML
    • Getting Started with UML2
      This article describes how to get started with the UML2 plug-ins for Eclipse. In particular, it gives an overview of how to create models (and their contents) both programmatically and by using the generated UML2 editor.
  • Plugin Development
    • Notes on the Eclipse Plug-in Architecture
    • ONJava.com: Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 1: A First Glimpse
    • What to plug into Eclipse
      There's more to Eclipse than writing Java code.
    • Speed development with Eclipse wizards
      One of the greatest features of the Eclipse framework and integrated development environment (IDE) is its extensibility. In this article, you'll learn how to quickly build a wizard that automates the process of adding a new file. Because the contents of the file can be predefined, the wizard enables better development through consistency and automation.f
    • Build extensions for Eclipse one snippet at a time
      Find out how to build a plug-in for Eclipse and Rational Application Developer V7. You can use this plug-in to define snippets that let you add code that follows enterprise standards. This plug-in allows you to drag and drop pieces of code into the editor.
    • Build extensions for Eclipse one snippet at a time
      Find out how to build a plug-in for Eclipse and Rational Application Developer V7. You can use this plug-in to define snippets that let you add code that follows enterprise standards. Similar to the Snippets view that comes with the Web Tools Project, this plug-in allows you to drag and drop pieces of code into the editor. We follow object-oriented best practices so the snippets can be loaded from any source, such as a database (like Apache Derby), filesystem, or Web service.f
    • Speed development with Eclipse wizards
      One of the greatest features of the Eclipse framework and integrated development environment (IDE) is its extensibility. In this article, you'll learn how to quickly build a wizard that automates the process of adding a new file. Because the contents of the file can be predefined, the wizard enables better development through consistency and automation.f
    • Plug-in development 101, Part 1: The fundamentals
      Plug-in development in Eclipse is somewhat of an art form. If you're new to the concept of plug-ins, especially in the context of OSGi and Eclipse, it can be quite burdensome learning the myriad tools Eclipse has to help you write plug-ins. The purpose of this article is to help you learn some basic plug-in development skills with some best practices sprinkled in for good measure.
  • Eclipse Process Framework (EPF)
    • Eclipse Process Framework Project (EPF)
      The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) aims at producing a customizable software process enginering framework, with exemplary process content and tools, supporting a broad variety of project types and development styles.
  • Other Articles
    • developerWorks : Open source : Technical library : Articles
      Points to lots of articles on Eclipse.
    • J2ME Related
      • Develop J2ME applications with EclipseME
    • Database
      • Develop SQL databases with Eclipse, SQLExplorer, and Clay
        A good tutorial for you to go through which demonstrates the capabilities Eclipse and realated tools.
    • Put Eclipse features to work for you
    • Debugging with the Eclipse Platform
    • Refactoring for everyone
    • XML development with Eclipse
    • Enable a help system within the Integrated Solutions Console
      Want to know how that help system works?
    • Documenting your project using the Eclipse help system
    • Using Eclipse AspectJ: Your First Steps
      A book excerpt.
    • Migrating to Eclipse: A developer's guide to evaluating Eclipse
      How Eclipse differs from Netbeans, IntelliJ IDEA, and Borland JBuilder?
    • Building cheat sheets in Eclipse
      Cheat sheets help your customers get their hands dirty with your product and learn about its features interactively.
    • Build rich Internet applications
      Using OpenLaszlo, Eclipse Laszlo IDE, and Web Tools
    • Inside the Workbench: A guide to the workbench internals
    • Expose plug-ins as Web services with Eclipse
      With the recent development of a Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) server-side implementation, you can now extend traditional Eclipse plug-ins as Web services. Using the Eclipse Equinox Incubator server-side project, an implementation of the OSGi framework that you can deploy on an application server, you can package and dynamically load Eclipse plug-ins in a Web application server. You can expose plug-ins as Web services, and at the same time allow them to interact with other plug-ins that were intended for client-side applications.
    • Enterprise Java Community: Eclipse, Equinox, and OSGi
      A simple introduction to Equinox
    • Get started with Jigloo, a GUI builder for Eclipse
      Jigloo is an Eclipse plug-in that enables you to build sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUIs) rapidly that run on the Java platform. It can be used to build Swing-based applications and Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)-based applications. It is an easy-to-use visual editor, so you can create the UI for your desktop application quickly. In this tutorial, we build a simple workflow application and use Jigloo to create its UI. Learn how easy it is to get started with Jigloo and to tap into its advanced features, such as visual inheritance. Finally, we test an application and package it for others to use.
    • Dr. Dobb's | Eclipse and Public Health Software | June 8, 2007
      Open source community will have access to a processing engine for understanding and planning more efficient responses to pandemics
    • Revitalize your applications with Eclipse Forms
      Eclipse Forms offers a way to enhance the user experience of your Eclipse applications. It offers a 'Web-like' look for your applications without using the embedded browser. The goal of this article is to give a brief introduction Eclipse Forms as a user interface (UI) toolkit and to provide an easy-to-follow example to get you started.
    • alphaWorks : Web Browser-Based Interaction with the Eclipse IDE : Overview
      An Eclipse plug-in that enables browser-based access to Eclipse.
  • More IDEs
    • MOTODEV Studio
      MOTODEV Studio is an integrated development environment offering a fast and easy way to create applications that take advantage of the latest functionality in a wide array of Motorola's products.
  • BIRT
    • Developing an Eclipse BIRT Report Item Extension @ ECLIPSE DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL
      The Eclipse platform is an Open Source, integrated system of application development tools that you implement and extend using a plug-in interface. Eclipse provides a set of core plug-ins that configures the basic services for the platform's framework. A platform developer can build and integrate new tools in this application development system.
    • Eclipse Corner Articles
    • Introduction to BIRT, Part 1
      Learn how to install the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) plugins, create a new reporting project, create a new report, and connect the report to an Apache Derby (IBM Cloudscape) database.
• NetBeans
  • Visual Web Pack
    • NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 - Tutorials - Developing a Web Application
      A good introductory tutorial.
    • NetBeans Visual Web Pack - Tutorials - Getting Started With NetBeans Visual Web Pack
      This tutorial gives you a whirlwind tour of the Netbeans Visual Web Pack integrated development environment (IDE). The tutorial shows you how to use the IDE to perform the typical phases of web application development.
    • NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 - Tutorials - Using Page Fragments
      Creating theme based web applications (common fragments (header, footer,...) is described here.
    • NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 - Tutorials - Performing Inserts, Updates, and Deletes
      Database access (create, retrieve, update, and delete records) is described here.
    • Carol McDonald's Blog: Sample Store Catalog Application using Visual Web Pack and the Java Persistence APIs
      A good article with enough screen shots.
    • NetBeans 5.5 Visual Web Pack Installation Guide
      Contains some instructions on creating a new database inside NetBeans among other things.
    • NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 - Tutorials - Using Databound Components to Access a Database
      Using NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5, add components to a page, bind those data-aware components to a local database, and build and deploy to an application server.
    • LAB-4430: Developing Custom JSF Components For Netbeans Visual Web Pack
    • Creating a CSS-Based Fixed Page Layout - NetBeans IDE 6.0 Tutorial
      This tutorial describes how to create a CSS-based fixed page layout in NetBeans IDE 6.0.
    • NetBeans Wiki: Web Tutorial Status
    • NetBeans 6.0 - Tutorials - How to Use Virtual Forms
      This tutorial explains how to use virtual forms in NetBeans 6.0.
    • NetBeans IDE 6.0 Web Application Documentation
      Release documentation, tutorials, webinars, articles, and blogs for the NetBeans IDE 6.0 Web Application Development
  • Enterprise Pack
    • Introduction to Java EE 5 Technology
      This document provides an introduction to the major concepts of the Java EE 5 specifications
    • Java Persistence in the Java EE 5 Platform
      This small tutorial teaches you how to create some persistence entity classes and build a minimal web application which uses the Java Persistence API.
    • EJB 3.0 Enterprise Beans
      Shows how to create an enterprise application with an entity class, session bean (facade), message driven bean and two servlets. While the application developed is simple, it is a full fledged Java enterprise application.
    • Web Services (JAX-WS) in Java EE 5
      This tutorial shows how to use NetBeans IDE 5.5 to developing a JAX-WS web service and consume it in a Java class in a Java SE application, or in a servlet or JSP page
    • Connecting to a MySQL Database in NetBeans IDE
      Connecting to a MySQL Database in NetBeans IDE
    • Securing a Web Application in NetBeans IDE 5.5
    • Creating a Simple Web Application Using a MySQL Database
      Creating a Simple Web Application in NetBeans IDE Using MySQL
    • Screncast #WS7: Secure and Reliable Web service using Metro/GlassFish and NetBeans IDE 6
  • GUI Development
    • Java GUI Application Learning Trail - NetBeans Tutorials, Guides and Articles
      All about the NetBeans GUI Builder
  • Other
    • Subversion Support in NetBeans IDE
      A preview guide of the IDE's support for the Subversion version control system.
    • Flash Demos and video tutorials for NetBeans IDE
      Flash Demos and video tutorials for NetBeans IDE features and functionality
    • NetBeans (2007 - Articles, Books, Tutorials)
      Welcome to netbeans.org, home of the original free and open source IDE. Develop cross-platform desktop, mobile and web applications based on industry standards utilizing the latest technologies with our full-featured integrated development environment for Java Software Developers.
    • Demo of remote applet debugging
    • Demo of JDK debugging
    • Using NetBeans IDE 5.5 - Debugging Applications
      Guide to setting up your development environment in NetBeans IDE.
• Apache Ant
  • Ant's Home
    Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles.

    You write all the tasks (compilation, testing, copying, downloading, emailing the progress...) that are required to be executed when the project is built in a build.xml file. Then you simply type "ant" and that's it.

  • Apache Ant - Resources
  • Articles
    • Apache Ant 101: Make Java builds a snap
    • Apache Ant User Manual
    • Ant: Building a Better Build File
      A short article. Good for structuring the build file in a clean way.
    • Java Development with Ant
      Two free chapters. Very nice!
• Maven
  • Maven
    Maven is a Java project management and project comprehension tool.
  • Better Builds with Maven
    A free book on Maven 2
  • Apache Maven Simplifies the Java Build Process - Even More Than Ant
    A simple article to digest. You can start from here.
  • ONJava.com: Maven: Trove of Tips
    Tips!
  • ONJava.com: Developing with Maven
  • Project management: Maven makes it easy
  • ONJava.com: Extending Maven Through Plugins
  • Mevenide, Maven IDE Integration - Mevenide - Integrating Maven into IDEs
    Plugins to integrate Maven with IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans, JBuilder).
  • Building J2EE projects with Maven
    Nice set of slides here.
  • Maven Magic
    A good article on the project object model and the usage of Maven for J2EE projects.
  • Maven-Proxy
    maven-proxy is a lightweight servlet engine that sits on your main server and imitates ibiblio (for instance). When it gets a request for a jar it doesn't have, it gets the jar from the upstream servers and stores it into it's cache before returning it to the requester.
  • RepoWeb
    Repoweb is a MAVEN repository manager. Maven is probably one of the most exciting apache project of this year. It works with the concept of a unified binary repository for building java projects.
  • Maven: Handling Multiprojects
  • Jelly - Jelly : Executable XML
  • Maven: Building Complex Systems
  • Introduction to Apache Maven 2
    Modern software projects are no longer solely monolithic creations of single local project teams. With the increased availability of robust, enterprise-grade open source components, today's software projects require dynamic collaboration among project teams and often depend on a mix of globally created and maintained components. Now in its second generation, the Apache Maven build tool -- unlike legacy build tools created before the Internet-enabled era of global software development -- was designed from the ground up to take on these modern challenges. This tutorial gets you started with Maven 2.
• Subversion
  • Subvertion Project
  • Version Control with Subversion
    A great book on Subversion
  • Subversion FAQ
  • ONLamp.com: Keeping Your Life in Subversion
  • ONLamp.com: Single-User Subversion
  • ONLamp.com: Multiuser Subversion
  • Subversion Plugin for Eclipse
  • Pure Java Subversion (SVN) Client Library
  • Dr. Dobb's | Subversion and Linux: Setup and Use, Part 1 | July 30, 2007
    First you set up Subversion, then you use it
  • Dr. Dobb's | Subversion and Linux: Setup and Use, Part 2 | August 6, 2007
    First you set up Subversion, then you use it
  • SVN with MySQL authentication [arune.se]
  • The Wrath of Krang: Configuring Subversion authentication using Windows Active Directory and Basic Auth from a file - I tried, and failed.
  • Dr. Dobb's | Subversion 1.5 Released | June 19, 2008
    Merge tracking is now part of the package
• Build Environments
  • CruiseControl
    • CruiseControl Home
      CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.
    • Continuous Integration
      A good article on continuous integration.
    • Driving On CruiseControl - Part 1
      A superb article.
    • Driving On CruiseControl - Part 2
    • Integrating CruiseControl With WebLogic Workshop Applications
    • CruiseControl Configuration Reference
  • Viewtier Parabuild
    Parabuild is a powerful automated software build management server. Commercial, but provides free license for open source development.
• GCJ
  • GCJ: The GNU Compiler for Java - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
  • gcj: the gnu static Java compiler - HP DSPP
    What GCJ is and how to use it?
• Obfuscators/Decompilers
  • Covert Java: Obfuscating Classes
    An article of usage of obfuscators
  • ProGuard
    ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator. It can detect and remove unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It can then rename the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless names. The resulting jars are smaller and harder to reverse-engineer.
  • Java Optimize and Decompile Environment (JODE)
    JODE is a java package containing a decompiler and an optimizer for java.
  • Jmangle: The Java Class Mangler
    The Jmangle program helps discourage reverse engineering of Java programs and software piracy by allowing the developer to mangle the symbols used in the class file.
• Groovy
  • Groovy
    Groovy is a new agile dynamic language for the JVM combining lots of great features from languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk and making them available to the Java developers using a Java-like syntax.
  • Groovy - Scripting for Java
    A good article to get started with Groovy. Comprehensive.
  • Build scripts with Groovy and Ant
    This article shows how to put together Ant and Groovy to build a more flexible and powerful automation tool.
• Python
  • DrPython
    DrPython is a highly customizable, extensible editor/environment for developing programs written in the Python programming Language.
• XDoclet
  • XDoclet: Attribute-Oriented Programming
    XDoclet is a code generation engine. It enables Attribute-Oriented Programming for java. In short, this means that you can add more significance to your code by adding meta data (attributes) to your java sources. This is done in special JavaDoc tags.
  • Reduce code bloat with XDoclet
    A good article to get started with XDoclet.
  • XDoclet: Entity Bean Relationships
    This article explains how you specify the relationships between beans. Nicely written.
• Database
  • Execute Query
    Execute Query is an operating system independent database utility written entirely in Java. Very nice.
  • P6Spy
    P6Spy is an open source framework for applications that intercept and optionally modify database statements. The tool can primarily be used to log the SQL statements.
• AJAX
  • Discover the Ajax Toolkit Framework for Eclipse
    The Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) is a core piece of the new Open Ajax initiative, which aims to increase accessibility to the powerful Web programming technique through the Eclipse Foundation. The ATF extends the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) by adding an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) development environment for a variety of open source Ajax tool kits, including Dojo, Zimbra, and Rico. This article includes a HelloWorld example in which you install and configure the ATF, then use Eclipse and Dojo to create a basic Web application.
• Web
  • Web Developer Extension
    A useful Firefox extension for web developers.
  • Modify Headers
    A useful Firefox extension for web developers.
  • Web Test Tools
    A superb collection of web test tools. Each entry has a comment as well.
  • Fiddler HTTP Debugger - A free web debugging tool
    Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
  • HTML Tidy Project
    When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup?
• HTML Editors
  • Bluefish Editor : Home
    Home of the Bluefish Editor
  • NVU
  • The SeaMonkey® Project
  • gPHPEdit - PHP/HTML/CSS Development Environment for GNOME
• Modeling
  • Umbrello UML Modeller
  • AndroMDA - Homepage
    AndroMDA (pronounced: andromeda) is an open source code generation framework that follows the model driven architecture (MDA) paradigm. It takes a UML model from a CASE-tool and generates classes and deployable components (J2EE or other), specific for your application architecture.
  • BOUML - a free UML tool box
    BOUML : A free UML toolbox running under Unix/Linux/Solaris and Windows to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Php, Python and Idl
  • Graphviz
    Graph Visualization Software
  • UniMod
    UniMod states for Unified Modeling. Long term project goal is to create unified methodology for application development process that will close the gap between Design and Development phases. Present implementation can reasonably generate code from the models. Superb!
  • Drawing UML Diagrams with UMLGraph
• Testing
  • PatternTesting
    PatternTesting is a testing framework that allows to automatically verify that Architecture/Design/Best practices recommendations are implemented correctly in the code. It uses AOP and AspectJ to perform this feat.
  • dogtail: taking your application for a walk
    dogtail is a Desktop GUI Tester for Linux. It is a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python that uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. dogtail scripts are written in Python and executed like any other Python program.
  • luntbuild - automate and manage your builds
    LuntBuild is a powerful build automation and management tool. Continuous integration or daily build can be easily setup through a clean web interface. Generated builds are well managed through functions such as search, categorizatoin, promotion, patching, deletion, etc. It also acts as a central build artifacts download area for your whole team.
  • In pursuit of code quality: Automate GUI testing with TestNG-Abbot
    TestNG-Abbot is a testing framework that breathes new life into testing GUI components. This month, Andrew Glover walks you through the hardest part of GUI testing with TestNG-Abbot, which is understanding how a user scenario will play out. Once you've got that down, you'll find it surprisingly easy to isolate GUI components and then verify them using the framework's handy fixture objects.
  • Synergy
    Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems.
  • Automation for the people: Hands-off load testing
    Load testing is often relegated to late-cycle activities, but it doesn't need to be that way. In this installment of Automation for the people, automation expert Paul Duvall describes how you can discover and fix problems throughout the development cycle by creating a scheduled integration build that runs JMeter tests.
• Misc
  • Online Lab - Introduction to Ant, CVS, Eclipse and Tomcat for Life Sciences Developers
  • Sun Java Studio Creator
  • load4j
    Load4J provides a framework for developing and running stress tests. The framework itself is a scalable distributed system to based on Java RMI. Setting up stress tests of your own requires the development of Java classes.
  • Bluefish Editor
    Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
  • IzPack
    IzPack is an installers generator for the Java platform. It produces lightweight installers that can be run on any operating system where a Java virtual machine is available.
  • SableCC parser generator
    SableCC is an object-oriented framework that generates compilers (and interpreters) in the Java programming language.
  • PMD
    PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like: Empty try/catch/finally/switch blocks, Unused local variables, parameters and private methods, Empty if/while statements, Overcomplicated expressions - unnecessary if statements, for loops that could be while loops, Classes with high Cyclomatic Complexity measurements.
  • Jalopy Java Source Code Formatter Beautifier Pretty Printer
    Jalopy is a source code formatter for the Sun Java programming language. It layouts any valid Java source code according to some widely configurable rules; to meet a certain coding style without putting a formatting burden on individual developers.
  • SLOCCount
    SLOCCount is a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in a large number of languages of a potentially large set of programs.
  • XPath Explorer
    XPath Explorer (XPE) is a GUI application that lets you interactively experiment with XPath.
  • GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter
    Syntax highlighting PHP class supports more than 30 languages.
  • Software Development Tools-Java, .NET, PHP, Database, Testing UML, Project Management, SCM
    Software development tools for java, .net, php, ruby, xml, javascript, ajax, database, software testing, project management, etc.
  • JDepend
    A Java package dependency analyzer that generates design quality metrics.
  • Automation for the people: Pushbutton documentation
    Project documentation is often one of the necessary evils in delivering a software product. But imagine being able to generate your documentation at the click of a button. In this installment of Automation for the people, automation expert Paul Duvall explains how you can use open source tools to automate the generation of Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, build figures, entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs), and even user documentation.

Software Forges

• SourceForge.net
  Largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet!
• ObjectWeb
  ObjectWeb is an international consortium fostering the development of open-source middleware for cutting-edge applications: EAI, e-business, clustering, grid computing, managed services and more. Don't forget to look at their downloads.
• ObjectWeb Forge: Project List
• The Codehaus
  The Codehaus is an open-source project repository with a strong emphasis on Java, focussed on quality components that meet real world needs. They believe in open source as a pragmatic approach to software development, and all projects are business-friendly in terms of licensing.
• OpenSymphony
  OpenSymphony is an Open Source project dedicated to providing enterprise class J2EE components. Really good products are found here.
• Savannah: Welcome [Savannah]
  This web site (called Savannah) is a central point for development, distribution and maintenance of GNU Software.
• Tigris.org: Open Source Software Engineering
  Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development.

Software And Related Documents

• Repositories/Directories
  • GOCC - Welcome to the Government Open Code Collaborative Repository
    The Government Open Code Collaborative is a voluntary collaboration between public sector entities and non-profit academic institutions created for the purpose of encouraging the sharing, at no cost, of computer code developed for and by government entities where the redistribution of this code is allowed.
  • Open Source Java Directory on Onjava.com
  • Open Source Software in Java
  • developerWorks : Java technology : Downloads
    HUGE list!
  • Jakarta Project
    Lots of useful projects!
• Java
  • Object Refinery
  • JPackage Project
    Free Java RPMs
  • SSHTools
    Some useful SSH related software
  • GanttProject - Home
  • eXtropia - the open web technology company
    eXtropia is an open source resource for web application development. Free software applications, development tools, free tutorials, and other related resources.
  • OpenJMS - OpenJMS
    An open source implementation of JMS.
  • Jabber
    • Jabber: Open Instant Messaging and a Whole Lot More
      Jabber is a set of streaming XML protocols and technologies that enable any two entities on the Internet to exchange messages, presence, and other structured information in close to real time. The first Jabber application is an instant messaging (IM) network that offers functionality similar to legacy IM services such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo.
    • Jabber : Instant messaging for e-business
    • Instant logging: Harness the power of log4j with Jabber
  • Web
    • jCookie Library - Home
      jCookie is a free, open source Java library for easy and robust cookie handling in client-side Java applications.
  • Misc
    • Jive Software XMPP - Smack API
      Smack is an Open Source XMPP client library for instant messaging and presence.
    • Jive Messenger
      A Java-based XMPP server.
    • JCIFS
      JCIFS is an Open Source client library that implements the CIFS/SMB networking protocol in 100% Java. CIFS is the standard file sharing protocol on the Microsoft Windows platform (e.g. Map Network Drive ...).
    • Jakarta POI - Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files
      The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java.
    • iText, a Free Java-PDF Library
      iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly.
    • Generate PDF files from Java applications dynamically
      If your application needs to generate PDF documents dynamically, you need the iText library. The open source iText library makes PDF creation a snap. This article introduces iText and gives a step-by-step guide to using it to generate PDF documents from Java technology applications. We create a sample application to better understand iText.
    • Tools of the Trade, Part 1: Creating PDF documents with iText
      A book excerpt.
• Linux
  • Fresh RPMs
    Find RPMs here.
  • LinNeighborhood
    LinNeighborhood is free software for browsing Microsoft machines/networks and mounting SMB filesystems.
  • Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - ALSA
  • Linux Router Project
    LRP is small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and makes building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances, and typically embedded systems next to trivial.
  • XORP: eXtensible Open Router Platform
    XORP is the eXtensible Open Router Platform. The XORP project is developing an open source software router. The software is intended to be stable and fully featured enough for production use, and flexible and extensible enough for research use.
  • Find your way around open source GIS
    Geographic Information Systems tools for UNIX and Linux users.
  • FreeNAS - The Free NAS server
    FreeNAS is a dedicated operating system (FreeBSD reduced size) for network-attached storage (NAS) services.
  • Fedora Directory Server: the Evolution of Linux Authentication
    A free LDAP implementation with lots of capabilities.
• VOIP
  • Asterisk
    • Asterisk - The Open Source Linux PBX
      Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
    • trixbox CE
      An Asterisk-based PBX Phone System (formerly Asterisk@Home) | trixbox.
    • Tribox (Asterisk@Home) - Sourceforge site
      The Asterisk@Home project enables the home user to quickly set up a VOIP Asterisk PBX. A web GUI makes configuration and operation easy.
    • Digium - The Asterisk Telephony Company - Documentation
    • AstLinux - The Professionals PBX - Home
      A custom Linux distribution centered around Asterisk, the Open Source PBX.
    • Asterisk : AreskiCC CallingCard Application
    • voip-info.org : AreskiCC CallingCard Application
    • voip-info.org : ASTCC
    • astGUIclient - A GUI client application for the Asterisk open-source PBX
    • voip-info.org : Asterisk
    • voip-info.org : Asterisk Fedora Core 3
    • voip-info.org : Asterisk Linux Fedora
    • VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Securing Your Server
    • VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Securing Your Server, Part 2
    • Convert WAV audio files for use in Asterisk - voip-info.org
    • Adding a voice modem
      A forum thread.
  • Pingtel
    Open source VOIP
  • VOCAL: Open Source VoIP Software for Linux
  • SIPfoundry
    SIPfoundry is an international Open-Source community dedicated to improving and expanding SIP applications and the underlying technology.
  • Building a Call Center with LTSP and Soft Phones | Linux Journal
  • OpenWengo :: Freedom to Call, Freedom to Code
    A good sip phone is found here.
  • Is Linux Voice over IP Ready? | Linux Journal
    What is Voice over IP really? What do you need for Voice over IP? What do you mean, I can't call my girlfriend? What's all that buzz about open and proprietary protocols? Can I start my own telecom service? This article addresses these questions and compares the most popular Linux applications for calling and conferencing.
  • WengoPhone - call, talk, chat and share for free with anyone
    Operateur de telephone via Internet. Appeler le monde entier a des prix incroyables et effectuer gratuitement les appels de PC a PC avec un son HiFi
  • Speex: a free codec for free speech
• ERP/HRIS
  • Tiny ERP & CRM
    Seems to be a good one.
  • GNU Enterprise
  • Openbravo ERP
    Web based ERP for SMEs
  • OrangeHRM - Human Resource Management
• Business Applications
  • webERP
    Integrated Accounting ERP: Multi-currency, multi-location inventory, SO, AR multi-branch, PO, AP, GL, Bank, Sales Analysis, multi-level BOM, assemblies, kit-sets, price variances, flexible pricing, discounts, pdf reports.
  • PHP POS - Online Point Of Sale Program
    PHP Point Of Sale is designed to help small businesses with keeping track of customers, inventory, finances and generate reports based on sales. This program works great for businesses that use cash, check, or account numbers for their sales.
  • The Open For Business Project
    Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM, Open Source E-Business / E-Commerce, Open Source SCM, Open Source MRP, Open Source CMMS/EAM, ...
  • Accounting Receiving and Inventory Administration
    ARIA contains Accounting, Receiving and Inventory Management and Payroll.
  • Enterprise Payroll Systems
  • Linux-Kontor ERP System
    Not very active. Is this a dead project?
  • OSSuite
  • CK-Ledger: Demo Site Entrance
  • Silk: A Framework for Open Collaboration
    Silk is a general purpose, web centric, enterprise collaboration application built on industry standard technology (J2EE, JBOSS, MySQL and Linux among others) and designed to provide a viable open alternative to the proprietary collaboration environments offered by the major enterprise software vendors.
  • SugarForge
    SugerCRM is a nice customer relationship management application.
  • ERP5 Community - Industrial Grade Open Source / Libre Software ERP/CRM Solution: Zope Products
    ERP5 is based on Zope which is extended with a framework of advance components in order to provide entreprise level features to the Zope Object Database.
  • Compiere ERP CRM Software
    Needs Oracle database!
  • XRMS : Open-Source CRM
    A fully-integrated suite of PHP web-based customer relationship management (CRM), Sales Force Automation (SFA), and business intelligence (BI) tools, allowing companies to integrate their sales, service, and marketing data into a single information store.
• Help Desks
  • Best Practical Solutions, LLC:
  • HOT - Hot Open Tickets
  • Atrus Trivalie Productions: IRM
  • f2w Helpdesk at Sourceforge
    A helpdesk support system based on requests, with a simple web interface.
• Web Based WYSIWYG Editors
  • A list of them
  • HTMLArea -- the online editor
  • FCKeditor - The text editor for Internet
  • HTML Text Editor for embedding in Web Pages
  • hexidec codex : Java : Ekit
  • Bitflux Editor
    Bitflux Editor is a browser based Wysiwyg XML Editor – and that changes everything! You can edit now your content semantically and at the same time display it to your users and editors in its final form.
  • TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor by Moxiecode Systems AB
• Social Networking
  • Elgg: the open source social networking platform
    Elgg is an open source social networking platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities.
• Learning Management
  • Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning
    OSI Certified; Pretty good.
  • .LRN
    Another superb e-learning environment.
  • dokeos Open Source e-Learning
    OSI Certified; Pretty good.
  • OpenUSS
    Open Source Software for Universities and Faculties (Open Source University Support System)
  • ATutor: Learning Content Management System
    Another good one (Open Source).
  • 45 Minutes to a Moodle Education Server - www.reallylinux.com
  • DrupalEd
• Screen Capture
  • vncrec
    A simple VNC session recorder and player.
  • vnc2swf
    Record a vnc session into a flash file.
  • Creating Animated Screenshots on Linux LG #102
    This article explains how to use vncrec and vnc2swf tools to capture the screen and embed audio.
  • LinuxDevCenter.com: Making Screen-Capture Movies
    This artilce demonstrates how to create an animated image with multiple screen captures. No audio. No special tools are required other than ImageMagic.
  • Jacareto
    Jacareto is a capture & replay tool for programs written in Java.
  • Wink
    Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
  • DebugMode Forums :: View topic - Look! Wink with sound!
    Discusses about adding audio to Wink
  • XMG - The X MPEG Grabber
    XMG is a utility for the X Window System which allows you to create MPEG-1 video streams by repeatedly grabbing a window on the screen and then joining the frames into an MPEG sequence.
  • Xvidcap Project Home Page
    A small tool to capture things going on on an X-Windows display to either individual frames or an MPEG video.
• GIMP
  • ArchWiki :: CMYK support in The GIMP - ArchWiki
  • CMYK Separation Plugin for The GIMP
  • GIMP - Tutorials
  • GIMPguru.org: Image Editing Tutorials for Photographers
    GIMP Tutorials for Photographers
  • Gimp Tutorials - Tutorialized
    Gimp Tutorials
• Multimedia
  • Multimedia Players
    • Video for Linux resources
      A good categorized software list about video on Linux
    • VideoLAN
      The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes.
    • VLC media player
      VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
    • xine - A Free Video Player
      xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.
    • Flash
      • XSPF Web Music Player (Flash) - Plays MP3 on your website
        A cool mp3 player.
      • Home of FlowPlayer, the free Flash video player for the Web
        Home page of FlowPlayer, the ultimate video player for the Web
      • Flash Streaming to FlowPlayer using only PHP - RMBwiki
  • Multimedia Manipulation
    • Kino
      A video editing tool
    • Making Movies with Kino | Linux Journal
    • Kino Tips: Installing from Scratch and Exporting MPEG Videos | Linux Journal
    • Kino Tutorial
    • Cinelerra
      A vedio editing tool
    • Cinelerra Tutorial - Getting Started
    • Secrets of Cinelerra
      Secrets of Cinelerra
    • Cinelerra CV Manual: Table of Contents
      Cinelerra CV Manual: Table of Contents
    • FFmpeg
      FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
    • VideoHelp.com - Tools - swf2avi
      Convert an swf file into avi.
    • Omnividea FOBS - FFMpeg C++ & JMF Bindings
      FOBS is a set of object oriented APIs to deal with media. It relies in the ffmpeg library, but provides developers with a much simpler programming interface.
    • Composite Media Group - IBM Research
      MPEG 4 related technologies from IBM. A nice cross-platform toolkit is found here.
    • KToon: 2D Animation Toolkit - Home
      KToon: 2D Animation Toolkit. Create flash files with this.
    • BBC - Commissioning - A Guide to Picture Size
      Some guidelines on image sizes to be used when videos are created for TV screens and computer screens.
    • Nedron's Faq-O-Matic: What size should I use when creating menus?
      Image sizes to be used in videos
    • PHASEX: A New Linux Softsynth | Linux Journal
    • Some Linux Audio Updates And Expansions | Linux Journal
    • Updates, Beautiful Updates | Linux Journal
      More tools...
    • Flash
      • Flagstone Software
        Java libraries to manipulate Flash files are found here.
      • Open Source Flash Projects Open Source Flash
    • O'Reilly -- Web Mastering: The Art of Optimizing Sound Files for Napster and the Internet
      O'Reilly coauthor discusses production techniques of posting audio files to Napster and other Web sites. By Josh Beggs, coauthor of O'Reilly's Designing Web Audio (December 2000).
    • LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Building A Linux Music Studio - Cranky Audiophile Approves of Digital
      This is a great time to be your own recording and sound engineer. There are all kinds of great digital recording gear, from tiny portable recorders to multi-channel mixer-recorders with CD burners, and Linux has a wealth of good-quality audio recording and editing programs.
    • LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Building A Linux Music Studio Part 2 - Fixing Volume Levels
      Last week we made a music CD from a live digital recording the easy and simple way. Today we're going to fix volume levels and do graceful fades and transitions using Audacity and normalize.
    • Kokkini Zita: The Audio Software Of Fons Adriaensen | Linux Journal
    • Give Me 3 Synths, Part 3 | Linux Journal
    • ImageMagick v6 Examples
    • Audio/Visual Synthesis For Linux: The New Art, Part 1 | Linux Journal
    • Audio/Visual Synthesis: The New Arts, Part 2 | Linux Journal
  • Pictures
    • Creating An Animated Gif With GIMP
      How to make an animated gif?
    • Nicu's How-to - Rain animation with GIMP
      Tutorial: Rain animation with GIMP.
    • The FREEIMAGE Project
      FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications.
    • Make a button with rounded corners at TechnoMono
      Flash Game Development
  • Music
    • Linux MIDI & Sound Applications
    • Building a Multi-Room Digital Music System | Linux Journal
    • Something's Happening Here | Linux Journal
    • Planet CCRMA at home
      A nice set of music, midi, audio and video applications
    • cSounds.com
      Csound is an incredibly powerful and versatile software synthesis program. Drawing from a toolkit of over 450 signal processing modules, one can use Csound to model virtually any commercial synthesizer or multi-effects processor.
    • KeyKit
      A programming language and graphical user interface for MIDI, useful for both algorithmic and realtime musical experimentation.
    • Pleasant Diversions At Studio Dave | Linux Journal
    • Loop-based Music Composition With Linux, Pt. 1 | Linux Journal
    • JACK Sync: A Primer For Linux Users | Linux Journal
    • Rakarrack: Guitar FX For Linux | Linux Journal
  • Speech Processing
    • FreeTTS 1.2beta - A speech synthesizer written entirely in the Java(TM) programming language
    • oc volume - java speech recognition engine
    • Xvoice
      Control your GNOME desktop easily.
    • Perlbox.org Linux Speech Control and Voice Recognition
      Perlbox.org provides voice solutions for Linux and Unix desktop control.
    • CMU Sphinx: Open Source Speech Recognition
    • CMUSphinx: The Carnegie Mellon Sphinx Project
    • Open Mind Speech - Free Speech Recognition for Linux
      Aims to develop free (GPL) speech recognition tools and applications.
    • Praat Language Lab
      A tutorial on Praat, a quality audio analysis tool with many features.
    • Speex: a free codec for free speech
      Speex is an Open Source/Free Software patent-free audio compression format designed for speech. The Speex Project aims to lower the barrier of entry for voice applications by providing a free alternative to expensive proprietary speech codecs.
  • Misc
    • The Linux Sampler Project
      LinuxSampler - free, open source pure software audio sampler with professional grade features.
• Content Management
  • Open Source Content Management System List (perl, php, python, m4, java, etc) Blog API
  • The CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content Management Comparison Tool
    Compare content management systems
  • OpenACS
    OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications.
  • Metadot: The World's Most Popular Open Source Portal Server
    Metadot Portal Server is a point-and-click web builder software to allow non technical users to build and maintain intranets, extranets and websites in just a few clicks. It includes content management, collaboration features and a dashboard like My Yahoo. It can be extended by programming new portlets called Gizmos. Uses Perl, Mysql, Apache, Linux.
  • Mambo
    An open-source, full-featured CMS.
  • Caravel Content Management
    Seems to be a superb CMS
  • Bricolage
    Bricolage is a full-featured, open-source content-management and publishing system. Features include intuitive and highly configurable administration, workflow, permissions, templating, server-neutral output, distribution, and document management.
  • opencms.org: OpenCms - The Open Source Content Management System
    OpenCms is a professional level Open Source Website Content Management System. OpenCms helps to create and manage complex websites easily without knowledge of html. An integrated WYSIWYG editor with a user interface similar to well known office applications helps the user creating the contents, while a sophisticated template engine enforces a site-wide corporate layout.
  • Building Websites with OpenCms
    An article pointing to a book except as well.
  • Drupal
    Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
  • Drupal used project: developerWorks : Sample IT projects: Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site
  • Daisy
    Daisy is a comprehensive content management application framework, consisting of a standalone repository server accessible through HTTP/XML and a high-level (remote) Java API, and an extensive Daisy browsing and editing DaisyWiki application. Daisy is licensed under the commercially-friendly Apache License 2.0.
  • Gallery :: your photos on your website
    Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
  • Magnolia Content Management (CMS)
    The Magnolia 2.0 CMS tries to combine an clean GUI, enhanced usability, web-based deplyoment and J2EE enterprise strength. It is the first open source CMS using JSR-170, the "Java Content Repository API".
  • SAPID
    SAPID is open source site development environment compatible with XML Sapiens specification (unified language of managed sites).
  • Search Tools - Enterprise Search Engines - Information, Guides and News
    A really good site on different search tools avaliable.
  • Magnolia
    JSR170 Based
  • WordPress › Free Blog Tool and Weblog Platform
  • Wiki
    • Wiki - Wikipedia
      What is Wiki? Here's a great discription.
    • XWiki
      A nice WikiWiki written in Java.
  • Owl Intranet
    Owl is a multi user document repository (knowledgebase) system written in PHP4 for publishing files/documents onto the web for a corporation, small business, group of people, or just for yourself.
  • redhat.com | Lyceum: One installation, many blogs
  • Drupal
    • Useful Modules
      • Porter-Stemmer Module
    • Cool stuff about Drupal search I learned from Robert Douglass | WebWise Solutions
    • Marinelli - A nice theme
• Publishing
  • DocBook
    • DocBook Conversions with XFC
      While XFC can take some time to set up, it's a very powerful tool for transforming DocBook documents to any output format for which DocBook stylesheets exist. You're no longer trapped at the command line, and you don't have to worry about remembering a complex set of commands or parameters. With XFC, DocBook publishing is now literally a mouse click away.
    • XML.com: Mastering DocBook Indexes
      An article.
    • DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
    • XML & DocBook: Structured Technical Documentation Authoring
      An introduction to XML and DocBook.
    • Docbook Frequently Asked Questions
      A superb collection of FAQs.
    • ONLamp.com: Writing "Learning PHP 5"
    • DocBook Wiki
      This is a web application for viewing and editing DocBook documents online.
    • Introduction to DocBook XML
    • redhat.com | Introduction to DocBook XML, part 2
  • Linux as a Publishing Platform
    An article: Using Linux, OOo, Scribus and The GIMP lowers the barriers to taking your book to publication.
  • Podcasting
    • redhat.com | Podcasting in open source
  • Microblogging
    • OpenMicroBlogging specification
    • Public timeline - Identi.ca
      An open twitter clone.
    • Your life, on the line - Plurk.com
• Utility
  • WebCalendar
    WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Interbase or ODBC is required.
  • FreeMind
    A mind mapping tool.
  • Red Hat Magazine | The open palette: Creating grungy Gimp brushes using Inkscape
    A lengthy article on using GIMP and Inkscape
• Office
  • Paragraph and Page Spacing in OpenOffice.org Writer | Linux Journal
  • Expand the editing capabilities of OpenOffice with XSLT
    You might know that you can pull XML data into OpenOffice's spreadsheet program, Calc, but did you know that you can create a filter to make word-processing documents out of data stored as XML? This tutorial shows you how to use OpenOffice's import/export filters to open your XML data as though it's just a plain document. From there, users can edit the document much more naturally and then save it back to its native format. You can also use this feature to easily turn your documents into XML data.
  • HylaFAX+
    A fax server.
  • AvantFAX.com - What is AvantFAX?
    Home of AvantFAX Web 2.0 network faxing
  • Faxing in OpenOffice.org | Linux Journal
  • Extensions for OpenOffice.org Impress | Linux Journal
  • OpenOffice.org template collections | Linux Journal
  • Automating the creation of slide shows in OpenOffice.org | Linux Journal
• Remote Desktop
  • TightVNC: VNC-Based Free Remote Control Solution
    TightVNC is a free remote control package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.
  • VNC Reflector
    VNC Reflector is a specialized VNC server which acts as a proxy sitting between real VNC server (a host) and a number of VNC clients. It was designed to work efficiently with large number of clients.
  • VNCj
    VNCj is toolkit for creating 100% Java VNC servers. Using VNCj, you can create a full graphical user interface (GUI) in Java, using Swing and AWT, and immediately export it to anyone on the network with a VNC viewer.
  • FreeNX
    Free Software (GPL) Implementation of the NX Server
  • Synergy
    Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
  • GDM logins using VNC
  • SSL secures VNC applications
    SSL provides a novel mechanism for convenient, secure access of remote desktops with VNC and standard Web browsers.
• Networking
  • OpenVPN - An Open Source VPN Solution by James Yonan
    OpenVPN is an easy-to-use, robust, and highly configurable SSL VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private networks using an encrypted tunnel over the internet.
  • GNU Hosting Helper
    GNU Hosting Helper is a web hosting management package. This package provides tools to manage many of the aspects of a hosting environment.
  • Red Hat Magazine | Squid in 5 minutes
  • Unison File Synchronizer
  • File Synchronization with Unison | Linux Journal
  • Monitoring
    • Bandwidth Monitoring Tools For Linux -- Ubuntu Geek
      Ubuntu Linux Tips,Tricks,Howtos&Tutorials
    • Down for everyone or just me?
      Is the web site down only for you?
• Computer Management
  • SystemImager
    SystemImager is software that automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment.
  • Moodss and Moomps
    Moodss is a modular GUI application that can monitor systems, networks, and databases. It displays data in graphical viewers, sends emails and execute scripts on thresholds, archive data in a SQL database, and includes a daemon for background monitoring.
  • OCS Inventory NG
    Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computer configuration and software installed on the network.
  • OpenQRM - Open Resource Manager
    openQRM is an open source systems management platform which integrates with existing components in enterprise data centers. openQRM is derived from a proven commercial product and distributed under a modified Mozilla Public License.
  • ISPConfig
    ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license.
  • Zenoss: Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring
    Zenoss is an enterprise-grade open source monitoring solution built on the python-based Zope application server. Zenoss Inc. provides support and professional services for the Zenoss open source project.
• Directories
  • Fedora Directory Server
  • JXplorer - an open source ldap browser
    A very good one.
  • ONLamp.com: LDAP Server Administration with GOsa
    GOsa (GOnicus System Administrator) is a web administration tool for managing accounts and systems in LDAP databases, written in PHP and licensed under the GNU GPL.
  • Centralize user accounts with OpenLDAP
    A good article covering many aspects of OpenLDAP.
  • LDAP Series Part VI - Directory Service Modeling | Linux Journal
    Just one artical of a good series.
  • Documentation - Fedora Directory Server
  • LPI exam 301 prep, Topic 305: Integration and migration
    In this tutorial, Sean Walberg helps you prepare to take the Linux Professional Institute Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3) exam. In this fifth in a series of six tutorials, Sean walks you through integrating LDAP with your system's logins and applications. He also details the procedure to integrate your server into a foreign Microsoft Active Directory.
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