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aSVERD project is a Scalable Vector Graphics Entity Relationship Diagram generator. It is a tool that should be seen as part of a tool chain rather than a complete solution. What it does is read tables and relationships from a database and generate an SVG file containing the tables and links.
The motivation for creating this was than I have worked in many organisations that have databases with no ERDs and no tools for creating them. I finally got so fed up that I decided to do something about it and this is the result.
The way it is intended to work is that you point SVERD at your database and it creates an SVG file containing all tables and links between them. It DOES NOT attempt to create a fancy layout. it just puts the tables on the diagram in a grid. This can be viewed in a web browser (may need an SVG plug-in). You then use an SVG editor, such as GLIPSGraffiti to lay ou the tables. If you re-run SVERD on an exisitng output file it will not move the tables, therefore the diagram can be updated with out loosing your edits.
NOTE: the links between the tables are rendered using JavaScript, so that if you move the tables around in an editor, the links stay with them. The disadvantage of this is that the editor may not show the links while you are editing (this is the case with GLIPS).
If the table references are not defined in the database they can be supplied in a text file.
Usage
java -jar asverd.jar PropertiesFile
Or
java -jar asverd.jar -d driver -c connectionString -u user -p password [-o outputFile] [-q tableQuery] [-s schema] [-c catalog] [-r refs.txt]
e.g. sverd.TableLister -d com.mysql.jdbc.Driver -c jdbc:mysql://168.0.0.200:3306/DataBase1 -u fred -p secret
The properties file should contain
sverd.driver=databaseDriver
sverd.url=connectionString
sverd.user=username
sverd.password=password
sverd.outputFile=outputFile (optional - STDOUT used if not present)
sverd.tableQuery=query for table name - e.g. INV% (optional - all tables returned if not present)
sverd.schema=database schema (optional - leave out for DBs that do not use)
sverd.catalog=database catalog (optional - leave out for DBs that do not use)
sverd.references=refs.txt (optional - a file containing referecnes if these are not defined in the database. This file should be of the format TABLE [tablename] [foriegnKeyColName] REFERENCES [tablename] [primaryKeyColName] - I know flat text files are not trendy but this format is relatively easy to generate from either XML or SQL (via AWK, SED, PERL, etc)
Enhancements:
- This release fixes bugs with using the SVG in FireFox and adds JavaScript based zooming (click an entity to zoom). The jar contains source and class files

Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on FreeBSD. Frenzy project generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis.

After several months of delays and fundraising, the project has now announced the first beta release of the upcoming version 1.0. The new Frenzy is based on a pre-release version of FreeBSD 6.1, includes an improved hard disk installer, language options, an option to load the entire system into RAM disk, various methods to monitor disk activity, several new configuration tools, a new backup mechanism, an installer for USB storage devices, a stress testing utility, and many other updates.

Media-S project is an open-source development project that aims to create an open Digital Rights interface for the creation, playback, and management of multimedia files.

Because of its open nature, Ogg Vorbis will be the first format to be protected by this initiative.

i.Mage is a small and fast graphics editor slanted towards quite and easy pixel editing, ala DPaint from the DOS/Amiga days.
i.Mage project is not designed to compete with the other graphics programs out there, there are plenty that do a much better job than i.Mage.
However it starts in under a second and it does a lot of the mundane jobs of image editing quickly and without fuss.
Main features:
- Load/Save: Gif, Tiff, Jpg, Pcx, Bmp, Ico.
- 2 pane view, zoomed and 1:1.
- Downsampling/upsampling bit-depth, dithering, halftone, error diffusion.
- Resampling (smart resizing), cropping, rotating, offseting and flipping images.
- 8-bit palette editor: RGB/HLS ramps, colour cubes/stock palettes, reverse ramps, remapping.
- Clipboard support.
- Alpha blending.
- Basic linear/radial gradient fill.
- Undo que for most tools.
- Conversion of image to C/C++ code.
- Transparency support.
- Invert image.
- Convert to grayscale.
- Brightness/contrast adjust.
- Save/load/flip/rotate the current brush.
- Flood fill.
- Basic drawing primitives.
- Polyline editor.
- Text tool.
- Basic colour management via Little CMS, does RGBRGB on load/save to the internal colour space (sRGB), allows viewing of colour profile details.
Enhancements:
- Fixed the enable undo menuitem and the enable undo toolbar button being out of sync with each other.
- Fixed Bug #48: Undo doesnt work.
- Fixed the brush becoming part of the document when you say resize the image and the brush is still overlaid on the image.

ogre4j project enables the use of the OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) libraries in Java applications.

The first approach was made by Ivica Aracic aka bytelord (http://www.bytelords.de). Thanks to him for taking the first steps!
The last stable CVS version located at the OGRE SourceForge.net project page is based on his code but the new team is working on a complete new version that will be more powerful (hopefully).

To ease the pain for those who are using OGRE in C++ the usage of ogre4j will be straight forward. Every public interface of the OGRE library will be available through Java Native Interface (JNI) in the Java world.

JCards project is a free Java application designed to store and manage data in any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple applications to manage passwords, music databases, shopping lists, etc.
JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the fields they want and to customise it in many ways. This is all accomplished via an easy to use interface that requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon; in effect JCards is a front-end on to a flat-file database.
JCards was initially developed to run on a Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 PDA, but will also run on any PocketPC PDA that has a JVM installed.
Main features:
- Define multiple databases
- Define the fields that you want
- Define categories (drop down lists)
- Counters
- Calculated fields
- Defaults
- Set fields to view in the list
- Encrypt your data using Blowfish
- Search on any field
- Sort on any field
- Import/export CSV files
- Date fields can be prepopulated with todays date
- Quick view of categories

Annotatio provides an Annotea-compatible annotation system for Web pages and XML files.

It allows you to create and share annotations to various types of documents. Most people can use this program to save comments to HTML documents, but it also supports other types of annotations and XML-like documents.

In opposition to the current implementation of the W3C, Annotatio will save enhanced information of the annotations positioning within the document, which will allow positing the annotation even if the location or structure of the original document has changed.

In local mode, it will save all annotations locally, and in remote mode, it will save the annotations on a central Annotea-compatible server, such as Annotatio Server.