Free production software for linux

PRECC eXtended is an infinite-lookahead compiler-compiler for languages with context-dependent grammars. The generated code is ANSI C and ANSI C++; the code will compile and run native under either C or C++.
Specification scripts are extended BNF with inherited and synthetic attributes. Scripts can be compiled in separate modules and linked later. Metalevel production rules are allowed in the scripts. The technology is essentially LL(oo) with optimizations.
Enhancements:
- A "debian" subdirectory has been added in order to allow the building of deb packages from the source archive.

mysqlrowcopy is a tool that generates insert statements from result sets. It produces output similar to what might result from running mysqldump on a single SELECT query.

This project helps eliminate some of the tedium of moving data between QA and production MySQL databases.

Build:

To build mysqlrowcopy, you should run:

./configure
make

A mysqlrowcopy and mysqlrowcopy.debug file are created. They have identical functionality, the .debug version simply has debugging symbols built in (for gdb).

Since mysqlrowcopy is probably going to be I/O bound with modest CPU and RAM usage, the only reason to even build a 64-bit version is to work around potential issues in dynamic linking 32-bit binaries against 64-bit libraries.

RECIPES

1. Migrating a MySQL user account reaper from QA server to a production server.

e.g. MySQL database server qa3.example.com to prod1.example.com:

$ mysqlrowcopy -h qa3.example.com
SELECT * FROM db WHERE User = "reaper" mysql db > reaper.sql
$ mysql -h prod1.example.com mysql < reaper.sql

You could of course simply pipe the output of mysqlrowcopy into mysql and skip the intermediate file.

(Dont forget to RELOAD PRIVILEGES afterwards)

2. Keep your test environment up to date. Populate it with production data every 24 hours. You could run this sequence from cron once a day:

$ mysqlrowcopy -h finance-db.example.com
SELECT * FROM stocks WHERE modified > DATE_SUB(NOW(),INTERVAL 24 HOUR)
finance stocks > day-stocks.sql

$ cat day-stocks.sql | mysql -h finance-test.example.com finance

3. Copy data between tables on different servers that have some similar fields.

Youve got common data in table Zip on a production database:

mysql> desc Zip;
+-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| ZIPCode | varchar(5) | | PRI | | |
| ZIPCodeType | char(1) | YES | | NULL | |
| City | varchar(32) | YES | | NULL | |
| CityType | char(1) | YES | | NULL | |
| State | varchar(32) | YES | | NULL | |
| StateCode | char(3) | YES | | NULL | |
| AreaCode | char(3) | YES | | NULL | |
| Latitude | varchar(12) | YES | | NULL | |
| Longitude | varchar(12) | YES | | NULL | |
+-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

And youve got table ZipPosition in a research database:

mysql> desc ZipPosition;
+-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| ZIPCode | varchar(5) | | | | |
| Latitude | varchar(12) | YES | | NULL | |
| Longitude | varchar(12) | YES | | NULL | |
+-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

You want to load data from production Zip into research ZipPosition.

$ mysqlrowcopy -h production SELECT ZIPCode,Latitude,Longitude common ZipPosition > pos.sql
$ cat pos.sql | mysql -h qa research

Note how we specify ZipPosition on the first line to tell mysqlrowcopy what the destination table is going to be.

jPodder is the most complete podcasting program on the planet. Yes we can claim this as, jPodder was one of the first programs to be created for podcasting and has been innovating ever since.
If you own a portable media player like the iPod or you want to listen to fresh content every day on your PC, then read on cause podcasting is what you are looking for.
With jPodder you can subscribe to websites containing audio. jPodder will download the files to your system and transfer these to your favourite media player.
Main features:
Currently supported languages:
- English
- Dutch
General/GUI
- Multi Platform program (Java based).
- Easy installer. (Creates shortcuts on Windows PCs).
- System tray (Minimize jPodder to download in background).
- GUI Menu and popup menus.
- Build-in User manual.
- Multi-Language (0.9 New!)
RSS Feed management
- Add, Remove & Edit feeds.
- Sort feeds by name.(0.9 New!)
- Move feeds up/down
- View detailed Feed information.
- Feeds stored in easy XML format.
- Extensive status bar.
- Drag & Drop Podcasts link (0.9 New!)
Enclosure previewing
- Preview enclosures incl. name, date, size..
- Show enclosure status (Downloaded, In player..)
- Show previous downloads from this feed.
- Highlights partial downloads.
- Highlights previous downloads.
Downloading
- Scheduled downloads
- Multiple simultaneous downloads
- Single enclosure download
- Smart-Download, Downloads latest only.
- Maximum downloads, Limiter to the number of downloads
- Resume partial downloads
- Manual download retry
- Feed Authentication (0.9 New!)
- Proxy Server support (Including authentication)
- build-in BitTorrent. (Including seeding).
Media Player Interface
- Natively supports transfer to iTunes and WMP.
- Player plugin facility. (0.9 New!)
- MIME-Type association to players (0.9 New!)
Podcast Production (0.9 New!)
- Manage production steps
- Auto-create RSS feed
- MP3 Tag editing
- Add enclosures to RSS feed
- Launch recorder
- FTP Transfer production.
- Auto-test RSS feed.
Logging
- Color coded logging.
- BitTorrent logging.

Hpodder is a tool to scan and download podcasts. Such tools are often called podcatchers.
Hpodder is a command-line tool for Linux. The project has quite a few features. A few highlights are that it is easy to learn and use, has automatic discovery of feed metadata, and can import iPodder settings.
Enhancements:
- This is the first production release.
- Feeds or episodes that repeatedly return errors are now automatically pruned.
- Cleaning of download areas was improved.
- Bugs were fixed.

GTDInbox is a thunderbird which discreetly integrates into Gmail making it even more suitable as a GTD tool.
GTDInbox (formerly GTDGmail) discreetly integrates into Gmail making it even more suitable as a GTD tool.
GTD - Getting Things Done - is a simple and effective productivity concept: designed so that even the laziest and most scattered of people can be organised and stress free.
Main features:
- Easily Organise GTD Labels
- Quickly Review Outstanding Tasks
- Save Specialised Searches
- Send Myself Tasks and References
- Print Tasks to Cards
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Built by the authors of Bumble Search - a well-reviewed high quality extension that has featured in the national IT press - GTDInbox shares the same high production values.

PlainDoc (pd2tex) document production system allows you to write documents as normal text files. pd2tex tool converts the plain text files to:
- TeX which then gets converted to pdf (you need pdflatex tool installed)
- DocBook (dbx) which can be fed to various tool chains (not supplied) to generate pdf and html
- flat HTML (entire document in one HTML file)
- multipage HTML (each section as its own HTML file)
PlainDoc system was developed by Sampo Kellomaki from around 2002 onwards with the aim of solving document editing problems for writing:
- IT specifications documents
- software product manuals and documentation
- scientific and research papers
- legal documents
- presentation slides
Some of the goals were:
- document source is the plain text representation, no separate conversion needed
- documents are intuitive to write and understand
- getting a neophyte to a reasonable level of productivity and achievement should be easy. A college freshman should be able to use PlainDoc after 1 hour training, provided that all the tool chains have already been installed
- it must be very difficult to fatally corrupt a document; fixing corruption should be as simple as editing the file
- it must be possible to do diffs between versions of the document
- using cvs should be well supported (helps to avoid fatal loss of document, too)
- enable use of plain text productivity environments like emacs(1)
- the PlainDoc system MUST be serious enough to produce most any type of document and thus end the need to use any other system
- typeset quality output in paper and web formats
PlainDoc has now (Oct, 2004) been around for more than two years and it has been successfully used to produce:
- major IT specifications conforming to formatting rules (70 page range)
- research papers and theses conforming to formatting rules (200 page range)
- product manuals (500 page range)
- legal documents and contracts conforming to formatting rules
PlainDoc acknowledges its LaTeX legacy and does not aim at WYSIWYG (except in plain text document production, of course :-) however we are not totally against visual formatting either. Thus many hooks for accessing the underlying document formatters capabilities have been made available, such as:
- direct entry of TeX code
- direct entry of DocBook code
- direct entry of HTML code
These should allow you to get your job done without the system philosophy standing too much in the way, while for most part leveraging the automatic formatting of standard constructs.

Blockish is a server for the NBD protocol implemented in Java. This allows you to serve up storage as a virtual block device to Linux systems from any system that can run Java. Blockish project is designed to support multiple pluggable backends.

Available backends:

Memory (useful for providing network swap)
File
S3 (Use Amazons S3 service as a block device!)

Blockish is in an early stage of development and should not be used for production work.