EiffelStudio is an IDE for the Eiffel language (ECMA-367, ISO/IEC 25436, and ACM Software System Award 2006). It includes: Eiffel compiler, Eiffel editor, Eiffel code browsing tool, Eiffel testing tool, graphical design tool, refactoring tool, debugger, profiler, and Eiffel analysis tools (Metrics, Dependencies, etc.). Eiffel generates C or CLI for .NET or Mono. Eiffel applies O-O principles and Design by Contract for high-quality software. Many Eiffel libraries are included: ADT, network, GUI, database, parsing (including an Eiffel parser), XML, Web, COM, and more.
Changes: Various bugfixes. This release improves the void-safety implementation and addresses some bugs. It has an improved SCOOP implementation that is much faster than in 6.8.
Tags: Software Development, Office/Business, Database, Compilers, Libraries
Licenses: EFL, GPL
OpenCards is flashcard learning software. The basic idea of OpenCards is to use PowerPoint presentations (*.ppt) as flashcard sets. Slide titles are considered questions and the slide contents their answers. Based on state-of-the-art memorization and scheduling algorithms, OpenCards will help you learn any set of flashcards.
Changes: This release has been rebuilt to use PowerPoint (ppt) files as flashcard sets. Binary bundles are available for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. It bundles several example flashcard sets, has a new update notification system, and is much faster and more stable.
Release Tags: Major
Tags: Text Processing, Office/Business, education, Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Licenses: BSD Original
Sudokuki is a graphical SUDOKU game. It solves even the most difficult sudoku grids for you. It can generate a sudoku, play sudoku, and print a sudoku.
Changes: This release implements an "enter/play custom grid" feature. The language menu code has been refactored. The language menu nows reacts to language browsing. GPL country flag icons have been added to the language menu and language dialog via the PIWIK project.
Release Tags: Beta
Tags: Games/Entertainment, Puzzle Games
Licenses: GPL v3 or later
So, anyone remember WebM? A reader emailed me about a pilot study (in English!) performed by a collaboration between the NPO (the Dutch version of the BBC, basically) and TNO (the largest research institution in The Netherlands, often employed by our government) into the viability of using WebM and associated tools instead of H.264 and associated tools, including the perceived quality of VP8. The outcome of the pilot shouldn’t surprise anyone – the toolchain needs work, WebM itself isn’t there yet, but the future looks bright.
Looking to write your own operating system? MikeOS, an open source teaching project with detailed documentation, has just reached a new release. Version 4.2 includes new programs (a memory editor, calculator, and ASCII art designer), file management in the CLI, and improvements to the text editor. If you want to start completely from scratch, try this guide first.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the re-launch of its Free
Software Directory. “The Directory lists over 6,500 programs that
are free for any computer user to download, run, and share. It was first
launched nearly a decade ago, but the new version brings a host of new
features designed to make it a more useful and current resource for users,
developers, advocates, and researchers.“
Treep is a simple language for doing symbolical computations. It operates on numbers and strings that can be organized in more complex objects. These objects are lists of name-value pairs that are stored in memory as AVL trees. It has about sixty built-in functions to operate on such data and a way to define new functions. Treep syntax very much resembles Lisp. The power of treep is its simplicity.
Changes: This release adds three functions for time handling: time (number of seconds since Epoch), repr (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS text representation), pars (to parse dates from text strings). In the library, it adds one function "like" which tests text for various formats.
Release Tags: Production
Tags: Library, tree, C, ansi c, symbolical computation
Licenses: GPLv3
Retro is a clean, minimalist dialect of the venerable Forth programming language. It supports all major OSes in use today, and was designed to be easy to learn, use, and modify for specific needs.
Changes: This release fixes a minor bug in the initialization code, adds an enhanced JavaScript implementation of the virtual machine, and updates libraries. It includes a new x86 assembly language implementation of the virtual machine.
Release Tags: Minor bugfixes, Minor feature enhancements, new features
Tags: Software Development, Assemblers, Compilers, Interpreters
Licenses: Public Domain, ISC
python-stdnum is a Python module to parse, validate, and reformat standard numbers and codes in different formats. It supports a large number of number formats, including: ISBN (International Standard Book Number), ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), BSN (Burgerservicenummer, the Dutch national identification number), EAN (International Article Number), SSN (U.S. Social Security Number), IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity), IBAN (International Bank Account Number), and more.
Changes: This release adds support for the IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity), fixes a bug in the handling of certain ISBNs, adds a few utility functions to existing modules, and has some code layout improvements.
Tags: Python Modules, numbers
Licenses: LGPL
Gollem is a Web-based file manager that provides the ability to fully manage a hierarchical file system stored in a variety of backends such as a SQL database, as part of a real filesystem, or on FTP, Samba or SSH servers. It supports uploading and downloading of files, basic file operations, permissions support, and MIME recognition and viewing of files through the Horde MIME library. It is fully internationalized and translatable.
Changes: This release has been updated to work with Horde 4.
Release Tags: Major feature enhancements
Tags: Information Management, Document Repositories, Internet, FTP, Filesystems, Web, Dynamic Content, Office/Business, groupware
Licenses: GPLv2
