The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
freshmeat.net: Project details for TCExam
“TCExam is Web-based software for generating and managing online tests and exams. It simplifies the exam cycle, including generation, execution, evaluation, presentation, and archiving.“
Commercial package using PHP, MySQL to create and admin on line training.
freshmeat.net: Project details for Syntax Desktop
“Syntax Desktop is a publishing system used to manage the contents of a Web site. It has an attractive GUI with DHTML elements. You can use it to insert news, photos, documents, and tree data structures into your site. It features easy DB backup and style switching.“
Good use of DHTM GUI. I really should look into this more. It works in Firefox as well as IE.
Servoo.net. Document converter for Web applications
“ServOO allows publishing large, structured and complex documents on the web easily. It converts documents prepared in a word-processor into XHTML for publication on the web. ServOO is based on OpenOffice.org so support many usual formats, for instance rtf, doc, sxw.“
freshmeat.net: Project details for RSS2Cisco
“RSS2Cisco is a server-side script that will convert RSS feeds into Cisco’s IP phone XML format for use as a service.“
In PERL. Displays feeds on the LCD of Cisco IP phones.
Google service compiles users’ search history | IDGNS | News | 2005-04-20 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
“To assist users in looking for previously found, but now misplaced, Web site links, Google will introduce on Wednesday a new service that logs users’ Web search queries on www.google.com and the results they click on.“
freshmeat.net: Project details for sux0r
“sux0r is a Bayesian filtering RSS aggregator. Users classify news under different categories, and after gathering enough data, the computer will be able to automatically pick out interesting news.“
Neat concept, just the news I want to see. I’m going to try it out. I wonder if it generates its own RSS feed of selected items?
Opera 8 released
“Often overlooked in the browser wars, the Norwegian browser Opera has served as an alternative for those dissatisfied with more popular alternatives from Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation, or Apple. Opera Software today launched Opera 8 for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and a public beta of Opera 8 for Mac OS X.“
Portals Fostering Open-Source Success
“If you go to the open-source development site sourceforge.net and search on the term “portal,” you’ll get hundreds of hits. In fact, you could reasonably argue that, when it comes to open-source enterprise applications, portals have been the biggest success story.In addition to being highly effective and capable on their own, open-source portals have served to demonstrate the effectiveness of other open-source technologies, especially the MySQL database and the PHP scripting language. This is clearly illustrated in probably the most popular open-source portal application, PHP-Nuke (www.phpnuke.org), which is easily customized and includes pretty much any feature you would want from a portal, including content and document management, forums, chat, and blogging. PHP-Nuke has spawned additional open-source portals, including PostNuke (www.postnuke.com).“
Looks like Open Source is the place to g oif you’re looking for portal software. Once a buzz word, portals have quietly become the norm for site development in many areas. I suspect aht blogs and such will follow a similar path.
Slashdot | New Releases for Debian and SUSE
“With the recent SUSE LINUX 9.3 Live DVD ISO released, we get a sneak peek. (screenshots) of this much anticipated OS update. Cool updates in 9.3 includes Firefox 1.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Gimp 2.2, Beagle. Xen, VoIP client, and more.” And while Debian’s Sarge isn’t here yet (give Branden Robinson a chance to find his plush new office!), wrochal points out that the fifth update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (“Woody” ) has arrived. 3.0 (r5) “mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems.”
Bash Blogger
“Bash Blogger is a small, bash-powered, weblog engine. It generates valid, semantic, XHTML 1.1 webpages styled with a single CSS for layout and appearance without relying on popular, server-side scripting languages (i.e. Perl, Python, PHP, ASP, SSI, etc.).“