Drop In Replacement

Amanda is a client/server application for making remote backups. While originating from a UNIX environment, it also supports backups of windows machines (via the smbclient utility). Client software for other machines is planned. See the Amanda homepage for details. Amanda CDRW-Taper program is... Platforms: *nix

A pure-Java compression library suitable as a drop-in replacement to current native implementations of java.util.zip. Typical scenarios where it is useful are applets, where access to native code is not allowed. It may also be useful on platforms where it Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Makepp, a build program which has a number of features that allow for reliable builds and simpler build files, is a drop-in replacement for GNU make. It supports almost all of the syntax that GNU make supports, and can be used with makefiles produced by utilities such as automake. It is called... Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Pure Perl implementation of the Milter protocol used by Sendmail, including drop-in replacement for the Sendmail::Milter interface. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Senora is targeted to be a drop-in replacement for sqlplus. It provides a plethora of new commands, which accept unix-style options. It is extensible via plugins. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

statmail is a nearly drop-in replacement for the `mailstat' program that comes with procmail. It aims at being faster and more correct than mailstat when computing e-mail statistics. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

This script is a drop in replacement for open() function that automatically explicitly closes the file when its input is exhausted. Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

It can be used as a drop in replacement of Drupal search framework. It also offers tagadelic and faceted search support. Sphinx can be installed on the same server Drupal is running, however it is recommended to do so on a different one.The search indexes can be partitioned and managed from... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

This script is a pure python drop in replacement for collections.deque(). It uses a dictionary as the underlying data structure for the deque (pronounced "deck", short for "double-ended queue", a generalization of stacks and queues) which provides O(1) performance for appends and pops from either... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

PWP-OWA is a PHP-based drop-in replacement for Oracle's Apache/mod_plsql combination, or Oracle Internet Application Server (iAS), allowing for execution of PL/SQL Web Toolkit applications on any PHP-friendly Web server (Apache, IIS, iPlanet, etc.) Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

The result is that flXHR can be used as a drop-in replacement for XHR based Ajax, giving you consistent, secure, efficient cross-domain client-to-server cross-domain Ajax communication, without messy workarounds such as IFRAME proxies, dynamic script tags, or server-side proxying.flXHR brings a... Platforms: Ajax

m4aread provides a drop-in replacement for wavread when the audio files are compressed using MPEG4 audio (AAC or M4A) format. (Protected m4p files cannot be decoded, unfortunately.)All the work is done by the external "faad" binary, an open-source AAC decoder available for multiple platforms.... Platforms: Matlab

DCRoundSwitch is designed to be a drop in replacement for UISwitch. It is styled 'modern' so will unify the look of your apps into the future whilst retaining backwards capability. Drawing is done in CoreGraphics so no images are required. It should behave exactly the same as a UISwitch API... Platforms: Mac

JUCollectionView aims to be a drop in replacement for the extremely slow NSCollectionView. Instead of loading every possible cell at once, JUCollectionView only displays the visible cells. To improve the performance even further, JUCollectionView also reuses cells where possible. This means that... Platforms: Mac

A drop-in replacement for Class::Data::Inheritable, but subclasses can be reloaded without losing their class data. This is useful in mod_perl development, and may be useful elsewhere. In mod_perl, Apache::Reload conveniently reloads modules that have been modified, rather than having to restart... Platforms: *nix

AjaxFTP is a drop-in FTP widget that you can use in Web 2.0 applications. AjaxFTP widget is skinnable, modular and uses the Ruby on Rails Prototype JavaScript library for a seamless FTP browsing experience Right now, you can simply connect to an FTP site. Its also skinnable, via some simple... Platforms: *nix

EasyHTTPD is a drop in C++ class to implement an HTTP 1.0 Server - Now with OpenSSL Support! The class can be used to allow an application to be controlled by a browser, hence Embedded. To this functionality to an app, add the C++ class to the application, write and register request callback... Platforms: *nix

The module provides drop-in support for CCK and Taxonomy.InstallationUnpack in your modules folder (usually /sites/all/modules/) and enable under Administer > Site Building > Modules. Key features "Semantic Search": - uses an RDF store as a search index. The built in store is easy to use. Other... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

Display Webpages in Tabs is a free Automator action for your Mac and a drop-in replacement for Apple???*a*?s "Display Webpages" Automator action that opens URLs in individual tabs. Installation: Copy Display Webpages In Tabs.action to either ~/Library/Automator/ or /Library/Automator/. Usage... Platforms: Mac

This script provides a quick and easy way to process Java properties files using pure Python. Of course, Jython can always be used, but in situations where Jython cannot be used, this recipe provides a sure-fire drop-in replacement.The Properties class is modelled to duplicate the behaviour of... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris