Projects tagged ‘tool’

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly ... [More] or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. [Less]

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call. All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not ... [More] interfere with the content on your page. Thus FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON or XML responses are required. [Less]

File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds ... [More] causes the file type to be printed. Starting with version 4, the file command is not much more than a wrapper around the "magic" library. [Less]

ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. ArgoUML was installed ... [More] half a million times during 2005 and is in use all over the world. [Less]

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like ... [More] users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (PO files) editor which runs on Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike other editors, Poedit provides compact view of data and very effective UI.

Facter is a cross-platform library for retrieving simple operating system facts, like operating system, linux distribution, or MAC address.

FlameRobin is an administration and management GUI tool for the Firebird DBMS written in C++ using wxWidgets and IBPP libraries. The goal of the project is to build a lightweight, cross-platform ... [More] application which doesn't have any closed-source dependency for either building or running. [Less]

Plagger is a pluggable RSS/Atom feed aggregator and mashup creating software, written in pure Perl.