Free built in editor software for linux

PGID3 is an ID3v1 and v2 tag editor for manipulating the information on files such as MP3s. PGID3 Tag Editor project is written in PHP and uses PHP-GTK, so it can take advantage of the GTK+ Toolkit for rendering a GUI.

The program itself is broken into three parts, a PHP Function Library called Pid Three (Pid3), a PHP CLI interface (PCLID3), and the GTK+ GUI itself. All three parts come together ready to go, so do not go freaking about uber amounts of dependencies to fill. All together they create the PGID3 Tag Editor.

"But Bob," you might say, "PHP is for the web!" Sure it is, but you should then check out the link below for the PHP Command Line Interface. That document describes using PHP to develop shell and desktop applications. Why PHP? Because I like to abuse it, that is a little hobby of mine.

Simply, PGID3 is an ID3 tag editor for MP3 files. The ID3 tags are what tell your media player the information about the tune such as title, album, etc. You can get by with slack tags if you just use a player like XMMS or Winamp, but if you have a portable like an iPod or some kind of database for the files, then correct and neat tags are a must. PGID3 can handle both the v1 and v2 of ID3 tags.

As for the program itself, it is the combonation of three seperate pieces that together work to create a user friendly envrionment to manipulate your ID3 tags. The base of it all is the Pid Three Function library, which is a fully custom set of functions for the reading and writing of ID3 tags. Since these are seperate from the application itself, the actual dirty work of messing with the data can be easily updated as well as easily included into other projects.

The second part of PGID3 is the Command Line Interface that I have lovingly called PCLID3. Using this you can manipulate your tags from the command line without using any type of graphical front end. By not having this built into the GUI, the opportunity is left open to build alternate GUIs, or even just not use any at all.

The third and final piece is the PHP-GTK GUI. This is the actual PGID3 component, though all of the parts together form a complete package under the PGID3 name. I designed this GUI to be light, compact, and solve as many problems in one spot as possible. As a bonus feature, PGID3 has built in intergration with QueryXMMS which is a command line utility for Linux that can ask XMMS what is currently playing so PGID3 can open it. This speeds up editing of playlists considerably.

Enough acronymns, what about features? Well, it is an ID3 editor so the features I would expect to find in one is what it has. It has the ability to read, write, and strip ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags from files. You can open a file from anywhere in the filesystem with a dialog, or using the above mentioned QueryXMMS integration you can zap right to whatever XMMS is playing.

If you leave the comment field blank when you write a tag, it fills it in automaticly with "Tagged by PGID3" which might be an easily disabled in future releases - depends if I get any feedback on that. It also automaticly removes excess whitespace on the end of tags which if I recall correctly happens because Winamp pads with spaces instead of nuls. Anyway it cleans that for you. Stripping a tag automaticly unchecks the related checkbox for writing it back, and the boxes are dynamicly checked as you load a file depending if it already has a v1 or v2 tag.

There are also a few keyboard shortcuts. F1 toggles the Write ID3v1 checkbox, and F2 toggles the Write ID3v2 one. F9 opens the currently playing file in XMMS, and naturally Enter writes tags.

Ara is an automatic editor of RSS feed. Only the links towards the Web pages must be given to him. The project is able to retrieve the title and the description of the pages and to produce a syndication file in the RSS format.

It enables you to select the pages to be syndicated instead of publishing the last articles systematically as the generators included in content managers do it.
The Ara term means "Atom and RSS API", it is also the name of a species of parrots from South America.

Using Ara

The program is a set of PHP scripts which have to be stored on a Web site. One creates a feed from the browser by entering the URL of the interface, ara.php.
It is easier to use the program with two browsers, one to display the pages to include and to copy the URLs from the URL input field, the other to edit the RSS file. Thus by just a cut and paste action one transfers the URL from the field to the interface and one clicks on "Add" to add it to the list.

The EDIT button on the left of the link makes it possible to modify the title and description if one wants.

To generate the feed, one enters the nam.

Warning
Ara is not a simple editor, when a page is added, it is reads for extracting useful information and for this purpose Ara makes use of Ajax (with the Anaa framework ), but Ajax can read files only from the site where it is installed. Actually the goal is to build the feed of the site, just avoid to give URL to other sites.

How it works

It is an Ajax script with a backend in PHP 5. In the current version only the pages of the website where it is installed can be added to the feed.

It is necessary to be authenticated to use it, to this goal the install.php program allows to register a login and a password. This file must absolutely be be erased. Once registered, the user remains registered for the whole session, even if he reads other pages meanwhile.

To generate the contents automatically, the program loads the pages given in the list and reads in the head section the contents of the title and description tags. If they are missing, the first H1 tag in the body of the page will be used for the title instead.

The same if description misses, the text of the synopsis will be taken from the page instead.

Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time.

It brings the concept of the widget to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.

Its meant to make PHP programers life much easier, and making better web applications.

Ogg Vorbis Tag Editor for XMMS is a plugin for XMMS which allows you to edit the tags in ogg vorbis files. The editor is built into the vorbis plugin for XMMS.

Build Order Anlyzer for the Axis & Allies RTS is a tool for analyzing builds in the Axis & Allies RTS game. Many sites go to great lengths to explain Build Orders, but the Build Order Analyzer is the first tool to actually allow players the ability to define a Build Order and then compare it to other Build Orders over time.

Key Facts to know about the Build Order Analyzer:

Only tool of its kind
Can support multiple types of RTS based games (not just Axis & Allies RTS!)
Built on Java technology & open source software

The Build Order Anlyzer 2.0 for Axis & Allies RTS is a tool for analyzing builds in the Axis & Allies RTS game. Wikipedia has a great defnition for a Build Order. To summarize, a Build Order in an RTS game defines the order in which a player builds their buildings, units, and upgrades. Understanding the timing and affect of various build trees is critical in making the appropriate tactical decisions during the game.

The BOA allows a player to build and analyze multiple Build Orders without playing a game. Lose to a player due to their build? Then plug it into the BOA and figure out a build to counter it! Gamers no longer have to play game, after game, after game to figure out a decent counter to another players Build Order, they can use the BOA to figure it out. The BOA can literally save serious gamers hundreds of hours of game play!

Module::Build::TestReporter is a Perl module to help users report test failures.

SYNOPSIS

use Module::Build::TestReporter;
my $build = Module::Build::TestReporter->new(
# normal Module::Build code here
);

# or, in your own M::B subclass

package My::Module::Build;

use Class::Roles does => Module::Build::TestReporter;

# your code as usual

Shipping test suites with your code is a good thing, as it helps your users know that your code works as you expect on your systems and it allows you better debugging information if things break in environments where you havent yet tested your code. However, it can be tedious and tricky to convince your users to send you the appropriate failure information.

Module::Build::TestReporter extends and enhances Module::Build to collect information on test failures and the Perl environment for users to send to you. Rather than walking them through running tests in verbose mode on the phone, in IRC, or via e-mail, use this module alongside your usual Module::Build build process and it will gather this information in case of failure.

libGarbageCollector is an incremental garbage collector with a tri-color, Baker treadmill, write-barrier implementation.

libGarbageCollector is built from the garbage collector code used in the Io programming language project.