Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and
tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web
framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional
tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking
infrastructure.
The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and
certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably
fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll or kqueue, it can handle
thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for
real-time web services. We built the web server specifically to handle
FriendFeed's real-time features - every active user of FriendFeed maintains an
open connection to the FriendFeed servers.
sitecopy is for copying locally stored websites to remote web servers.
The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally,
and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep
the remote site synchronized with the local site, with a single command.
The aim is to remove the hassle of uploading and deleting individual files
using an FTP client. sitecopy will also optionally try to spot files you move
locally, and move them remotely.
sitecopy is designed to not care about what is actually on the remote
server - it simply keeps a record of what it THINKS is in on the remote
server, and works from that. WebDAV can be used to maintain remote sites
as well as FTP.
TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor
control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has
the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor
instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other Content Management
Systems.
TinyMCE Features:
- Easy to integrate, takes only two lines of code.
- Customizable through themes and plugins.
- Customizable XHTML 1.0 output. Block invalid elements and force attributes.
- International language support (Language packs)
- Multiple browser support, Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera and Safari
(experimental).
- PHP/.NET/JSP/Coldfusion GZip compressor, Makes TinyMCE 75% smaller and a lot
faster to load.
- You can easily use AJAX to save and load content!
TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor
control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has
the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor
instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other Content Management
Systems.
TinyMCE Features:
- Easy to integrate, takes only two lines of code.
- Customizable through themes and plugins.
- Customizable XHTML 1.0 output. Block invalid elements and force attributes.
- International language support (Language packs)
- Multiple browser support, Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera and Safari
(experimental).
- PHP/.NET/JSP/Coldfusion GZip compressor, Makes TinyMCE 75% smaller and a lot
faster to load.
- You can easily use AJAX to save and load content!
"Zope is an exciting new object-based, open source web application
platform. It allows you to build powerful and dynamic web applications
easily. Zope comes with source code and is friendly to developers as
well as users.
Zope is distinguished by its integrated object database which, when
combined with a revolutionary object model, provides a completely unique
facility for servicing content managers and web application developers."
Here are some of the "headlines" mentioned in the features list.
Database Integration Content Management
SQL and HTML in Harmony Builtin Objects
Multiple Data Sources Document Templates
Publish Databases Web to Objects
Application Development Integrated Object Database
DTML Scripting Managed Through the Web
External Methods Direct URL Access to Objects
CYR-RFX started as a collection of cyrillic fonts for X-Window
("CYR-RFX" stands for "CYRillic Raster Fonts for X"). Now it includes
several cyrillic encodings and two latin ones (both with Euro sign).
These fonts are modified (mainly with cyrillics added) versions of
standard X-Window fonts from misc/ and 75dpi/.
The fonts included are all *iso8859-1 from misc/, and most important
75dpi/ ones: lu (LucidaSans), lut (LucidaSansTypewriter), tim (Times),
helv (Helvetica) and cour (Courier).
Unlike the standard CYR-RFX' hierarchical install, this port installs
all fonts for the same encoding into a single directory, with combined
fonts.aliases and the new fonts.dir. The default encoding is KOI8-O --
seemingly the most complete of the Cyrillic encodings, compatible (for
most intents and purposes) with KOI8-R and KOI8-U.
The ParaType PT Sans and PT Serif font families were developed as
part of the "Public Types of Russian Federation" project. The main
objective of the project is to allow the peoples of Russia to read
and write their native languages using free/libre fonts.
In addition to standard Western, Central European, and Cyrillic code
pages, the fonts contain characters of all title languages of the
Russian Federation.
PT Sans is based on Russian sans serif types of the second part of
the XX century, but at the same time has a very distinctive features
of modern humanistic design. The family consists of 8 styles: 4
basic styles, 2 caption styles for small sizes, and 2 narrow styles.
PT Serif is a transitional serif face with humanistic terminals
designed for use together with PT Sans. It consists of 6 styles: 4
basic styles, and 2 caption styles for small sizes.
The fonts were released by ParaType, and designed by Alexandra
Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov.
Perl bindings to the 2.x series of the Gtk+ graphical user interface library.
This module allows you to write graphical user interfaces in a perlish and
object-oriented way, freeing you from the casting and memory management in C,
yet remaining very close in spirit to original API. Find out more about Gtk+
at http://www.gtk.org.
The GTK+ Reference Manual is also a handy companion when writing Gtk
programs in any language. http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/
The perl bindings follow the C API very closely, and the C reference
documentation should be considered the canonical source.
To discuss gtk2-perl, ask questions and flame/praise the authors,
join gtk-perl-list@gnome.org at lists.gnome.org.
Tk is a great graphical toolkit to write desktop applications. However, one can
get bothered with the constant typing of quotes and options. Tk::Sugar provides
handy subs for common options used when programming Tk.
Benefits are obvious:
- Reduced typing: The constant need to type => and '' is fine for one-off cases,
but the instant you start using Tk it starts to get annoying.
- More compact statements: Reduces much of the redundant typing in most cases,
which makes your life easier, and makes it take up less visual space, which
makes it faster to read.
- No string worries: Strings are often problematic, since they aren't checked at
compile-time. Sometimes it makes spotting an error a difficult task. Using
this alleviates that worry.
Tk::TableMatrix is a table/matrix widget extension to perl/tk for
displaying data in a table (or spreadsheet) format. The basic
features of the widget are:
* multi-line cells
* support for embedded windows (one per cell)
* row & column spanning
* variable width columns / height rows (interactively resizable)
* row and column titles
* multiple data sources ((perl hash|| perl callback) &| internal caching)
* supports standard Tk reliefs, fonts, colors, etc.
* x/y scrollbar support
* 'tag' styles per row, column or cell to change visual appearance
* in-cell editing - returns value back to data source
* support for disabled (read-only) tables or cells (via tags)
* multiple selection modes, with "active" cell
* multiple drawing modes to get optimal performance for larger tables
* optional 'flashes' when things update
* cell validation support
* Works everywhere Tk does (including Windows and Mac!)