Writing A Comparison Essay

MarcXimiL is a free, flexible, fully standards-compliant and efficient bibliographic similarity analysis framework. MarcXimiL comes out of the box with generic predefined similarity strategies. However, strategies may be customized in a flexible way: the order of comparisons between or within...

DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs. Its purpose is to provide a single front end for all tests. Think of it as a custom library of Tcl procedures crafted to support writing a test harness. A test harness is the testing infrastructure that is created to support a specific program or...

The zc.async package provides an easy-to-use Python tool that schedules durable tasks across multiple processes and machines. For instance... * Web apps: maybe your web application lets users request the creation of a large PDF, or some other expensive task. * Postponed work: maybe you have a...


Platforms: *nix

NetClass is a multi-platform library written in C++ that provides a thin wrapper around sockets (TCP/UDP) and thread implementations. The library also contains code for writing a generic server application easily with a simple interface.


Platforms: *nix

XArchive is a little different from your average bear. It's not designed for any specific set of command line archiving tools. Instead XArchive uses external wrappers to talk to the command line tools. When XArchive starts up it checks it's wrapper directory, consulting each wrapper found to see...


Platforms: *nix

Create a professional site map for your Web pages without writing a single line of code. The process is fully automated and is based on the Navigational or directory structure of your website. eXactMapper Lite offers three different and totally customizable HTML/DHTML site map styles, including a...


Platforms: Windows

MrPostman is a java program that allows you to access Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and other webmail services directly from your favorite mail client. It converts the web pages of your favorite webmail provider to e-mails and provides the standard POP interface to your mail client (e.g. Outlook Express,...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Java, BSD Solaris

Mozilla Thunderbird is a cross-platform email client that includes a news reader and a chat module, while it is also able to manage multiple email accounts with advanced message filtering. The installation process is easy-to-follow, it only requires you to press a few “Next” buttons, after...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server

Here's a way to organize your notes and study material that's fun and helpful to your learning at the same time. While you're studying or writing a term paper or homework, have you ever wanted to find a web page or a note that you know you once had but can't track down? Here's the answer. 3D...


Platforms: Windows

Donate to charity for free simply by running a small program in the background. In exchange for your unused CPU processing power, you will give to the charity of your choice. This application contains NO POPUPS, NO SPYWARE, NO ADWARE. You can donate more than 1000 grains of wheat, 1000...


Platforms: Windows

VisualLightBox is a free wizard program that helps you easily generate web photo galleries with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code. Just drag your photos into a VisualLightBox window, hit "Publish" and your own web gallery with...


Platforms: Windows

PLplot is a library of functions that are useful for making scientific plots. PLplot can be used from within compiled languages such as C, C++, FORTRAN and Java, and interactively from interpreted languages such as Octave, Python, Perl and Tcl. The PLplot library can be used to create standard...


Platforms: *nix

TEA Total is a very small 128 bit private key based encryption/decryption system which uses the block variant of TEA (Tiny Encryption Algorithm). TEA is said to be several times faster than DES, as well as being much smaller and possibly more secure. It also isnt encumbered by any patents and...


Platforms: *nix

Algorithm::DiffOld is a Perl module to compute `intelligent differences between two files / lists but use the old (<=0.59) interface. NOTE This has been provided as part of the Algorithm::Diff package by Ned Konz. This particular module is ONLY for people who HAVE to have the old interface,...


Platforms: *nix

MP3::Icecast is a Perl module to generate Icecast streams, as well as M3U and PLSv2 playlists. SYNOPSIS use MP3::Icecast; use MP3::Info; use IO::Socket; my $listen_socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalPort => 8000, #standard Icecast port Listen => 20, Proto => tcp, Reuse => 1,...


Platforms: *nix

AxKit2::Plugin is a base class for all plugins. An AxKit2 plugin allows you to hook into various parts of processing requests and modify the behaviour of that request. This class is the base class for all plugins and this document covers both the details of the base class, and the available...


Platforms: *nix

COPE is a CORBA implemented in Perl. This documents describes the steps you take when writing a CORBA application in Perl using COPE. First the basics: the laguage binding used. Scalar types char The char type is represented as a 1-character perl string, like a. octet octet is...


Platforms: *nix

phpSocketDaemon is a PHP socket daemon framework that can handle thousands of client and server connections, asynchronously, with built-in buffering, state handling, etc. The implementation of a new TCP client or server service (or a mix thereof) with this library is very easy, and allows...


Platforms: *nix

Net::DBus::Tutorial::ExportingObjects is a Perl module that contains tutorials on providing a DBus service. This document provides a tutorial on providing a DBus service using the Perl Net::DBus application bindings. This examples in this document will be based on the code from the...


Platforms: *nix

spuug is a little tool that generates the boilerplate code for GObjects. I you dont know what they are, then probably this tool is of little use to you... spuug can be used for plain GObjects, but also for GTK+-widgets etc., and tries to be a bit smart with the code in spits out. Ive been using...


Platforms: *nix