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Efficient C++ Hash Map Implementation »

google-sparsehash is an extremely memory-efficient hash_map implementation. 2 bits/entry overhead! The SparseHash library contains several hash-map implementations, including implementations that optimize for space or speed.

These hashtable implementations are similar in API to SGI’s hash_map class, but with different performance characteristics. It’s easy to replace hash_map by sparse_hash_map or dense_hash_map in C++ code.

It consists of two hashtable implementations: sparse, which is designed to be very space efficient, and dense, which is designed to be very time efficient. For each one, the package provides both a hash-map and a hash-set, to mirror the classes in the common STL implementation.

Popularity: 3% [?]

Open Source .NET Zip Library »

#ziplib (SharpZipLib, formerly NZipLib) is a Zip, GZip, Tar and BZip2 library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. It is implemented as an assembly (installable in the GAC), and thus can easily be incorporated into other projects (in any .NET language). The creator of #ziplib put it this way: “I’ve ported the zip library over to C# because I needed gzip/zip compression and I didn’t want to use libzip.dll or something like this. I want all in pure C#.”

#ziplib is a by-product to the open source IDE SharpDevelop. It is free, C# source code included!

Popularity: 2% [?]

Java Data Distribution Platform »

Hazelcast is a clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform for Java.

Features:

  • Distributed implementations of java.util.{Queue, Set, List, Map}
  • Distributed locks via java.util.concurrency.locks.Lock interface
  • Distributed implementation of java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService
  • Support for cluster info and membership events
  • Dynamic discovery
  • Dynamic scaling to hundreds of servers
  • Dynamic partitioning with backups
  • Dynamic fail-over

Hazelcast is for you if you want to

  1. share data/state among many servers (e.g. web session sharing)
  2. cache your data (distributed cache)
  3. cluster your application
  4. partition your in-memory data
  5. distribute workload onto many servers
  6. take advantage of parallel processing
  7. provide fail-safe data management

Popularity: 1% [?]

Free EBook: Algorithms for Programmers »

A good for references – Algorithms for Programmers.

Download Link:

http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf

Popularity: 2% [?]

Boost: A Useful C++ Library »

Boost is a very useful C++ library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications.

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Many organization already use programs implemented with Boost, like Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.

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High Performance HTTP and Reverse Proxy Server »

Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide (sources: 1, 2). Although still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

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People generally use Nginx:

  • As an Apache replacement that gracefully handles many concurrent connections: Nginx is especially popular among web hosting providers. 50,000 simultaneous connections have been reported, thanks to Nginx’s use of epoll and kqueue.

  • As a load-balancing proxy server: Nginx is a popular front-end to Rails and PHP applications, either via FastCGI or HTTP. Written in C, it consumes about a quarter of the CPU that Perlbal uses.

  • As a mail proxy server: more of a niche application, but fastmail.fm reports great success.

  • As a server with a simple installation process, a clean configuration file, and few bugs: Nginx is easy to get running, and it almost never needs restarting. You can even upgrade the binary with zero downtime.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Open Source Social Networking Software »

Here are some open source social networking software that you can use to set up your social networking website,

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Mahara is an open source e-portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to selected audiences.

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Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.image

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Built with Ruby on Rails, Lovd is a social networking solution that has everything you need to build your community.

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Using AROUNDMe collaboration server you can create multiple collaborative group, webspace, community or social networking websites. Each group can create a multiple page collaborative web site. They get social tools such as a guestbook (a wall), a group blog, a forum and a wiki which they can drop into web pages. Each group is fully customisable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. Groups can be private or public.

People can connect to a group to contribute using OpenID. They get tracking tools such as forum digest and blog RSS feeds.

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XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP. Yogurt is a social network module for ImpressCMS, Xoops.

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Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a universal, free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly develop your very unique and successful website.

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PHPizabi is another social networking software in PHP.

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Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!

Popularity: 5% [?]

Sphinx: Open Source SQL Full Text Search Engine »

Sphinx is a full-text search engine. It is a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant full-text search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages.

Currently built-in data source drivers support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or PostgreSQL, or from a pipe in a custom XML format. Adding new drivers (eg. to natively support some other DBMSes) is designed to be as easy as possible.

Search API is natively ported to PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and also available as a pluggable MySQL storage engine. API is very lightweight so porting it to new language is known to take a few hours.

It features

  • high indexing speed (upto 10 MB/sec on modern CPUs)
  • high search speed (avg query is under 0.1 sec on 2-4 GB text collections)
  • high scalability (upto 100 GB of text, upto 100 M documents on a single CPU)
  • supports distributed searching (since v.0.9.6)
  • supports MySQL natively (MyISAM and InnoDB tables are both supported)
  • supports phrase searching
  • supports phrase proximity ranking, providing good relevance
  • supports English and Russian stemming
  • supports any number of document fields (weights can be changed on the fly)
  • supports document groups
  • supports stopwords
  • supports different search modes (“match all”, “match phrase” and “match any” as of v.0.9.5)
  • generic XML interface which greatly simplifies custom integration
  • pure-PHP (ie. NO module compiling etc) search client API

Currently known systems Sphinx has been successfully running on are:

  • Linux 2.4.x, 2.6.x (various distributions)
  • Windows 2000, XP
  • FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
  • NetBSD 1.6, 3.0
  • Solaris 9, 11
  • Mac OS X

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Event Notification Library »

libevent is an event notification library. It provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also support callbacks due to signals or regular timeouts.

libevent is meant to replace the event loop found in event driven network servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch()and then add or remove events dynamically without having to change the event loop.

Currently, libevent supports /dev/poll, kqueue(2), event ports, select(2), poll(2) and epoll(4). The internal event mechanism is completely independent of the exposed event API, and a simple update of libevent can provide new functionality without having to redesign the applications. As a result, Libevent allows for portable application development and provides the most scalable event notification mechanism available on an operating system. Libevent can also be used for multi-threaded applications. Libevent should compile on Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows.

More information about event notification mechanisms for network servers can be found on Dan Kegel’s “The C10K problem” web page. Another library that abstracts asynchronous event notification is liboop.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Microsoft Web Platform Installer »

The Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI) provides a single, free package for installing and configuring Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework. Using the Web Platform Installer’s simple user interface, you can select specific components or install the entire Microsoft Web Platform onto your computer. To help you stay up-to-date with product releases, the Web Platform Installer always contains the most current versions and new additions to the Microsoft Web Platform.

Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems are: Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008
  • You must have administrator privileges on your computer to run Web Platform Installer Beta
  • .NET 2.0 Framework
  • Supported Architectures: x86 and 64-bit

Popularity: 1% [?]

Open Source XML Database »

As quoted from Wikipedia, an XML database is a data persistence software system that allows data to be stored in XML format. This data can then be queried, exported and serialized into any format the developer wishes.

Two major classes of XML database exist:

  1. XML-enabled: these map all XML to a traditional database (such as a relational database), accepting XML as input and rendering XML as output. This term implies that the database does the conversion itself (as opposed to relying on middleware).
  2. Native XML (NXD): the internal model of such databases depends on XML and uses XML documents as the fundamental unit of storage, which are, however, not necessarily stored in the form of text files.

Here are some open source XML database

eXist-db

eXist-db is an open source database management system entirely built on XML technology. It stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.

eXist-db supports many (web) technology standards making it an excellent application platform:

 

Sedna

Sedna is a free native XML database designed to be a universal system for a wide range of XML applications such as content management, event-based SOA, etc. Sedna is a full-featured database system that provides a full range of core database services (such as transactional store and recovery) and flexible XML processing via the W3C-standard XQuery language.

  • Load XML data “AS IS” with no need to adhere to any predefined schema
  • Support for large (hundreds of GBs) databases
  • Powerful processing facilities: XQuery, Updates, Full-text search, Integration with SQL databases, etc
  • Easy to run and use

 

Oracle Berkeley DB XML

Oracle Berkeley DB XML is an open source, embeddable XML database with XQuery-based access to documents stored in containers and indexed based on their content. Oracle Berkeley DB XML is built on top of Oracle Berkeley DB and inherits its rich features and attributes. Like Oracle Berkeley DB, it runs in process with the application with no need for human administration. Oracle Berkeley DB XML adds a document parser, XML indexer and XQuery engine on top of Oracle Berkeley DB to enable the fastest, most efficient retrieval of data.


Benefits

  • High Performance—fast XML data storage and retrieval using W3C standard XQuery and XPath
  • Rich Features—built on top of Oracle Berkeley DB, inheriting all its features such as transactions and replication
  • Zero Administration—applications perform database administration, eliminating the need for a DBA and allowing continuous, unattended operation
  • Low TCO—extreme performance reduces hardware costs and being embedded eliminates DBA costs

 

Apache Xindice

Apache Xindice is a database designed from the ground up to store XML data or what is more commonly referred to as a native XML database.

 

dbXML

dbXML is a Native XML Database. It is capable of storing and indexing collections of XML documents in both native and mapped forms for highly efficient querying, transformation, and retrieval. In addition to these capabilities, the server may also be extended to provide business logic in the form of scripts, classes and triggers.

 

Some good references for reading

  • http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/
  • minx is an open-source project to create a generic XML repository architecture for common relational database management systems which avoids using any proprietary XML extensions.

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Java: A Simple JSON Utility »

Here is a simple JSON utility class that I used to do the followings

  • Convert JSON string to a Map and vice versa
  • Convert JSON string to list of maps and vice versa

This class encapsulate all the JSON string manipulation in a single Java class so that it frees you up from the actual JSON implementation. You can replace the JSON library just by changing this class later if needed.

You can download the source code here.

Here is the sample code snippet for testing

   1: /**
   2:    * Test Stub
   3:    *
   4:    * @param args
   5:    */
   6:   public static void main(String[] args) {
   7:       Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
   8:       map.put("name", "jason");
   9:       map.put("email", "[email protected]");
  10:  
  11:       // Convert map to JSON string
  12:       String jsonString = JsonUtil.getJsonStringFromMap(map);
  13:       System.out.println(jsonString);
  14:  
  15:       // Convert Json string to map
  16:       Map<String, String> newMap = JsonUtil.getMapFromJsonString(jsonString);
  17:       System.out.println(newMap);
  18:  
  19:  
  20:       Map<String, String> anotherMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
  21:       anotherMap.put("name", "alice");
  22:       anotherMap.put("email", "[email protected]");
  23:  
  24:       List<Map<String, String>> mapList = new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>();
  25:       mapList.add(map);
  26:       mapList.add(anotherMap);
  27:       // Convert to json string
  28:       jsonString = JsonUtil.getJsonStringFromList(mapList);
  29:       System.out.println(jsonString);
  30:  
  31:       // Convert Json string to list of map
  32:       List<Map<String, String>> newMapList = JsonUtil.getListFromJsonArray(jsonString);
  33:       System.out.println(newMapList);
  34:  
  35:  
  36:   }

 

The output

   1: {"email":"[email protected]","name":"jason"}
   2:  
   3: {[email protected], name=jason}
   4:  
   5: [{"email":"[email protected]","name":"jason"},{"email":"[email protected]","name":"alice"}]
   6:  
   7: [{[email protected], name=jason}, {[email protected], name=alice}]

 

The code uses the Jackson JSON library.

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Firefox GeoLocation Plug-in »

Future versions of Firefox plan on supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location.

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Geode is an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences using Firefox 3

Popularity: 1% [?]

Linux Video Editor »

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.

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You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. Also, Kino can export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Still frame import and export uses gdk-pixbuf, which has support for BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 require mjpegtools or ffmpeg. MPEG-4 requires ffmpeg.

General
  • Free Software (GNU GPL)
  • GTK+ 2.0 UI
  • XML SMIL 2.0 project file format
  • OSS or ALSA audio playback
  • GDK or XVideo video playback
  • online help
  • Peer and developer support forums
  • User interface translated to Danish, Swedish, French, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Norwegian.
  • Extensible project metadata system.
  • Ability to “publish” project file and still frames using an extensible scripting interface.
  • Integrated publishing to the http://blip.tv/ web video sharing site
Media Support
  • DV-based (libdv and ffmpeg DV codecs)
  • PAL or NTSC
  • AVI (type1 or type2) or Raw DV files. with large AVI (OpenDML) and LFS (>2GB) support
  • Optionally, Quicktime DV format

Popularity: 1% [?]

A Powerful Windows KeyLogger »

Light Logger is a monitoring software that allows you to keep track of what is happening on your computer. This spy software runs hidden in the background, and automatically logs all keystrokes. Light Logger monitoring software starts at a low level that allow you to make logging even when an anti-keylogger is installed.

It features:

  • Absolutely free.
  • Easy to install and using.
  • Logs all keystrokes, is case sensitive (keystroke logger).
  • Multi-language support.
  • All the information is stored in the log file including system passwords, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IAM, Skype messages and e-mail clients.
  • Generates the report in the html format.
  • The password fields are shown with the picture monitoring software password field
  • Support special characters like [BACK], [CTRL], [DEL] and others.
  • Small size 170Kb.

Popularity: 3% [?]

Java NIO Framework – Grizzly »

Grizzly is a Java NIO frameowork to help developers to build scalable and robust servers using NIO. It offers embeddable components supporting HTTP, Bayeux Protocol, Servlet (Partially) and Comet.

It is similar to other frameworks like Apache Mina. Using it you can easily build scalable server applications in the Java.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Open Source Medical Record System »

OpenMRS is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework.

It is formed in 2004 as a open source medical record system framework for developing countries — a tide which rises all ships. OpenMRS is a multi-institution, nonprofit collaborative led by Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (http://regenstrief.org), a world-renowned leader in medical informatics research, and Partners In Health (http://pih.org), a Boston-based philanthropic organization with a focus on improving the lives of underprivileged people worldwide through health care service and advocacy.

OpenMRS has been implemented in several African countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, and Tanzania. This work is supported in part by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The Rockefeller Foundation, and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Popularity: 1% [?]

JavaScript Library to Display Map Data »

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference — OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

Furthermore, OpenLayers implements industry-standard methods for geographic data access, such as the OpenGIS Consortium’s Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) protocols. Under the hood, OpenLayers is written in object-oriented JavaScript, using components from Prototype.js and the Rico library. The OpenLayers code base already has hundreds of unit tests, via the Test.AnotherWay framework.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Open Source Java ByteCode Library »

Here are some open source library for Java byte code manipulation

ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework. It can be used to modify existing classes or dynamically generate classes, directly in binary form. Provided common transformations and analysis algorithms allow to easily assemble custom complex transformations and code analysis tools.

The ASM bytecode manipulation framework has been designed and implemented to be small and as fast as possible. ASM’s runtime .jar is only 25KB, compared to 350KB for BCEL. The load time overhead caused by class transformation with ASM is about 60 percent with ASM, compared to 700 percent or more with BCEL. These factors have been recognized by the Java community and several well known projects have switched to ASM, such as CGLIB and AspectWerkz. The list of projects that are using form the beginning ASM also includes Speedo, Groovy, dynaop,BeanShell, and a number of others.

 

The Byte Code Engineering Library is intended to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class). Classes are represented by objects which contain all the symbolic information of the given class: methods, fields and byte code instructions, in particular. However, the library is not being updated for long time.

 

Javassist (Java Programming Assistant) makes Java bytecode manipulation simple. It is a class library for editing bytecodes in Java; it enables Java programs to define a new class at runtime and to modify a class file when the JVM loads it. Unlike other similar bytecode editors, Javassist provides two levels of API: source level and bytecode level. If the users use the source-level API, they can edit a class file without knowledge of the specifications of the Java bytecode. The whole API is designed with only the vocabulary of the Java language. You can even specify inserted bytecode in the form of source text; Javassist compiles it on the fly. On the other hand, the bytecode-level API allows the users to directly edit a class file as other editors.

 

cglib is a powerful, high performance and quality Code Generation Library, It is used to extend JAVA classes and implements interfaces at runtime. It is used by Hibernate, Spring, iBatis and other software.

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Java SE Monitoring and Management Guide »

The Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE platform) 6 features utilities that allow you to monitor and manage the performance of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) and the Java applications that are running in it.

The Java SE Monitoring and Management Guide describes those monitoring and management utilities.

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