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J-Bird: listing software for birders, written in Java. New to this release: import of checklists from CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, tables in HTML documents, dBase .dbf files, and relational databases; preferred checklists can be assigned to trips and to regions for use when ticking species that have been observed; a search dialog for text in displayed tables; a search dialog for species names in collapsable tables; instructions for accessing the underlying database remotely or from Perl.   Existing features: basic ticking, trip reports, ability to count species ticks, and to generate composite lists of species such as life-lists or region lists, ability to query sightings and display results as tables, web pages, or CSV. Checklists can be created, used to tick species that have been observed on trips, and included in trip reports.  You can download it here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19835&package_id=50797
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Paul Jones, developer of the Solar Application Framework, has posted the latest version of said software. Details for the release can be found in this blog posting over on his site.    Last night, I released version 0.24.0 of Solar, the simple object library and application repository. Solar is a PHP 5 framework for rapid application development.   You can read the change notes for a full run-down, but there are a few changes in particular that I want to highlight.    He points out changes in the form of two major packages:  Solar_Request - a new class developed to handle the request information for a script (get/post/cookie/etc) Solar_Session - a new class to handle the sessions in an application, complete with read-once "flash" support  He also mentions a small change to the built-in Ajax support for the handling of the "edit" view.
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Demian Turner has posted about the latest version of the Seagull framework (0.6.3) and an update to correct a remote file disclosure issue (up to version 0.6.4).   Well it took a bit of time but after quite a few months a new release of Seagull is finally out, 0.6.3 (0.6.4). Things have been keeping pretty busy with the startup I'm working on, but it's been a great opportunity to refine some features of the framework and optimize the performance.  The early indications are good, after less than 10 weeks of going live Kindo users are creating up to 20k profiles/day and the server load is staying comfortably below 0.5.   The update is a different download that helps correct an issue with the framework allowing user-inputted values from the GET string. Be sure and update your version to keep this security issue under wraps.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday announced the availability of the J2SE (Java 2 Platform Standard Edition) 5.0, which the company said looks to be the most significant Java upgrade to date.
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An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd, supporting reliable syslog over TCP and RFC 3195, writing to MySQL databases, fully configurable output formats (with great timestamps), ability to filter on anything, and on-the-wire message compression.   Hi all,  Rsyslog 3.11.2 has just been released. Now it has the ability to convert text files into syslog. This is done by the imfile plugin, which monitors text files. A new libdbi-based output plugin has been written. This adds six additional databases (including Firebird and Oracle) to the supported database set. Also contains small bug fixes. Version 3.11.2 is a recommended release for all version 3 users.  Doc for new Modules:    http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-omlibdbi.html    http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-imfile.html  Changelog:    http://www.rsyslog.com/Article175.phtml  Download:    http://www.rsyslog.com/Downloads-req-getit-lid-79.phtml  I hope this release is useful. As always, feedback is appreciated.  Best regards, Rainer Gerhards
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Sun Microsystems has posted a prerelease, &quot;snapshot&quot; version of Java 2 Standard Edition 6.0, codenamed Mustang, which represents the next generation of the Java platform.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:jQuery-PHPFile Host Link TesterNearest weekdayMy AjaxPHP SessionHTML CompactortwitterlibphpShopping BasketQTxtDBRegEXml
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The PHP-Tools blog has a new entry today concerning the XJCOnfForPHP package they maintain and a new offering for those looking to get the latest - a nightly build.   XJConfForPHP, the XML-to-object-mapper, Frank Kleine and me are working on is now available as a daily snapshot from snaps.php-tools.net.   XJConfForPHP is a "flexible solution to parse XML documents and create PHP data structures".
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DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.   There appeared to have been a problem with the files that were uploaded for the 20080106-0744 stable version that prevented DrJava from being run when downloaded from some servers.  These problems had been fixed within two days of the release. The version number has not been changed since the files were simply uploaded again.  We apologize for the inconvenience.
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(InfoWorld) - Fortify SoftwareÂ and the FindBugs project have launched a free service that will scan open-source Java software for bugs in the code. The Java Open Review project (JOR) lets open-source projects run audits of their source code using Fortify's source code analysis software and the University of Maryland's FindBugs tool. With developers focusing on more secure software development practices, the Java community needs more advanced bug-finding tools like JOR, said Barmak Meftah, vice president of product and services, with Fortify. "Everybody understands that the cheapest and easiest point to find and fix security bugs is at the time of implementation," he said. Open-source developers will now get the benefit of Fortify's Source Code Analysis software, which is already used by commercial vendors such as Oracle and Adobe Systems. But the free JOR analysis is not as detailed as one done by Fortify's commercial product. Fortify Source Code Analysis can find more than 120 categories of software security problems, Meftah said. The JOR analysis will detail about 40 categories, covering "the most egregious types of security vulnerabilities and the types that developers tend to understand most readily," he said. The details of the free source code analysis will be made available only to project contributors so that JOR cannot be used as a hacking tool, Meftah added. JOR has been working with a handful of open-source projects over the past six weeks and has discovered hundreds of bugs in applications like Tomcat, Zimbra and Java Pet Store. On Monday, the service will be opened up to any Java open-source projects that want to use it, Meftah said. Sun Microsystems already uses FindBugs for its GlassFish open-source application server software, said Geoff Halliwell, a manager of application server quality engineering with Sun. Though Sun has no immediate plans to audit its application server code with JOR, Halliwell said he would "certainly look at it." "In my business, we're always looking to improve," he said.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Phew what a whopper Sun has pushed out a major update to its Java software package that features scores of bug fixes, including a number of security updates.â¦
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SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical SQL client written in Java that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands etc.   We released version 2.6.1 which addresses the following two problems:  A critical packaging flaw that prevents launch on some platforms:     http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1818446&group_id=28383&atid=393414    A bug causing tables in the object tree to appear unsorted alphabetically:    https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1805954&group_id=28383&atid=393414    The 2.6.1 release files are available for download here:  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28383&package_id=29193
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Nice blog post via Slava  criticizing the quality of the Java runtime and hotspot compiler:  "The HotSpot source code is a bad joke We wasted an afternoon and had a good laugh on IRC today, looking over parts of the SCSL sources to HotSpot and the sun.* classes. I can't give too much detail or paste code samples because that would violate Sun's ... license, but here are some highlights:"  This is my favorite one:  "A lot of preprocessors are used. This includes a mix of awk, sed, shell scripts, and indeed, Scheme! Yes, the JVM source includes jscheme.jar, used to generate some CORBA classes. Considering that Sun talks about how bad preprocessors are, its hypocritical of them to use preproces ...
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Frank Kleine has posted a release announcement about the latest version of his XJConf to hit the web - XJConf for PHP 0.2.0.   Some minutes ago I released version 0.2.0 of XJConf for PHP. XJConf allows to create simple to complex object structures from XML configuration files. [...] If you are already using version 0.1.2 you should definitely upgrade to the new version, as it offers more features as well as a simplified access to XJConf itself via the new facade.    Updates in this new version include the definition of abstract tags, the possibility to declare tags as static and the ability to use the XJConfFacade for a simplified usage of XJConf. Check out the project's Trac page for more information.
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Firebird RDBMS offers many ANSI SQL features & runs on Linux, Windows & several Unix platforms. Features excellent concurrency & performance & powerful stored procedure & trigger language. WEBSITE link above right, TRACKER http://tracker.firebirdsql.org   The Firebird Project team is pleased to announce the release of Firebird v.2.0.3. Kits for Windows and Linux (x686 and x64) are in the SourceForge.net repository and should start to appear throughout the day.    Enjoy!
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Software company releases an update to its Java development tool, NXJ.
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SableVM is a robust, extremely portable, efficient, and specifications-compliant Java Virtual Machine that aims to be easy to maintain and to extend. It features a state-of-the-art and efficient interpreter engine. Its source code is very accessible and easy to understand. It also has many robustness features that have been the object of careful design.     SableVM is a clean-room implementation of the publicly available specifications.    In this version, we added an experimental generational garbage collector, we imported a new GNU Classpath snapshot, we added handling of Jar/Zip files on boot classpath, we added user-friendly failure messages for bootstrap problems, we added added a profiling switch, we made sablevm-classpath install its files in standard locations, we made jikes and gcc be less verbose by default, and we made several important bugfixes and improvements.  You can download the SableVM from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523&release_id=281502