Stuart Herbert

Here\’s what caught my eye, web-based wise, amongst yesterday\’s Freshmeat announcements:

• Vilistextum, a small and fast HTML to text convertor
• WebCit, a web-based front end to Citadel/UX BBS systems
• rdiff-backup, a remote incremental backup solution (okay, it\’s not a web-based app, but I reckon you can\’t take backups too seriously)
• Achievo ATK, a programming framework for PHP
• Moodss, a graphical monitoring application
• Room Juice, a multi-user jukebox application
• Gallery, a web-based photo-album
• ibWebAdmin, a web frontend for the Interbase and Firebird database server
• PhpBars, an easy solution to draw bar graphs on an image
• php-syslog-ng, a web front-end for viewing syslog-ng messages logged to MySQL
• ht://Check, a broken link checker than can also be used to perform site-wide accessibility checking
• phpBB Blog, a blog tool for phpBB
• WebScarab, a tool that allows the user to view the traffic between the Web browser and server, and modify it in transit
• FCKeditor, Javascript-based HTML editor

Wow. A much better turn-out than yesterday\’s list

I also spotted an announcement for Visual Paradigm, a Java-based UML modelling tool. It\’s a commercial product, but the Community edition looks pretty well featured, and (the reason for it getting a mention) is that it claims to support robustness analysis notation. Robustness analysis is something that developers just don\’t do enough of

Can\’t help it - this one also caught my eye (although this one is GPL\’d). Stellarium uses OpenGL to render 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time. I\’ve only tried the Windows version - which seemed to work just fine - but it looked very tasty to me.