Monthly Archiv: June, 2009
Another text editor has been added to the Free Programmer's Editors, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and ASCII Text Editors
page. TED Notepad is a Windows notepad replacement with souped up features, including Unicode support, hotkeys for every function/feature, multiple clipboards, text case conversions, and so on. Check it out, or get one
of the other free text editors on that page.
Note: those looking for web editors or HTML editors may prefer to visit the
Free HTML Editors and WYSIWYG Web Editors page instead. Those are, of course, also free.
With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete. Download it, test it, and tell us what you think. If you don’t uncover any bad bugs, 2.8 will be released on Wednesday the 10th.
If you’re interested in what has changed since beta 2, consult the changelog.
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Execute MySQL queries using parameter lists
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This package can be used to execute MySQL database queries using parameter lists.
There is a base class that provides basic functionality to access MySQL databases, execute queries, retrieve the results, manage transactions, etc..
A sub-class can insert, update, delete and retrieve database records given parameters that define tables, fields, field values and conditions.
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Display calendars denoting event days
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This class can be used to display calendars denoting event days.
It can display calendars of given week, month and year using HTML tables.
The presentation of the calendars is configurable using CSS classes. The days of given events are denoted using special CSS classes.
The text for the month and week day names is also configurable.
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Indent HTML document output
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This class can be used to indent HTML document output.
It can return indenting spaces to be inserted before each line with HTML tags or data.
The class keeps track of the indenting level, which can be increased or decreased on each new output line.
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Compose and output HTML forms
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This class can be used to compose and output HTML forms.
It can generate HTML form different types of form inputs and other types of HTML elements given parameters that defines details of each type of element.
The generated HTML is returned as a string that can be assembled with other parts of the final HTML page.
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Extract the base domain from an URL
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This is a very simple class that can be used to extract the base domain from an URL.
It takes an URL string and parses it find the URL domain and return the base domain.
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Generate and parse ISO 8583 transaction messages
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This class can be used to generate and parse ISO 8583 financial transaction messages.
It can take as parameters the transaction message type indicator and other card transaction details. Then it generates a transaction message that is returned as a string.
The class can also do the opposite, i.e. take a string with a transaction message and parse it to get the message type indicator, the bitmap of types of transaction details contained in the message, and the transaction detail values.
A new website offering free and open source fonts has been added to the Free Fonts page. This site provides a number of Unicode encoded
and legacy fonts supporting many languages. If you are looking for fonts to make your documents look interesting and unique, check it out.
- Next Wednesday, June 10th, is the target date for the release of
WordPress 2.8. Tickets against the 2.8 milestone that are not
blockers will be postponed to another release.
- WP 2.9 will require MySQL 4.1.2 or greater. This is raised from the current requirement of 4.0.
- Checks will be added to the automatic upgrader that will prevent upgrading to 2.9 if MySQL < 4.1.2 is being used. The upgrader will also issue a notice that suggests asking the host to upgrade MySQL to meet the minimum requirement.
- In order to promote migration to PHP 5, the upgrader will suggest that those running
PHP 4 switch to PHP 5. A link to a Codex page describing how to switch for various hosts should be provided.
- The new weekly IRC meetup time will be every Wednesday at 9pm UTC.
