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"WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your software, not fight it."
A list of open source state machines for user interfaces written in Java.
..some dangerous thing .. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program comes in two versions because of the differences and limitations of some API.
Apache Lenya is a Java-based Open-Source Content Management System. It is based on open standards such as XML and XSLT. One of its core components is Cocoon from the Apache Software Foundation.
telnetd is an Open Source effort to implement a Java telnet daemon that is compact and generic and thus easily embeddable into other applications.
PHLAK is a modular live security Linux distribution. PHLAK comes with two light gui's (fluxbox andXFCE4), many security tools, and a spiral notebook full of security documentation. PHLAK is a derivative of Morphix, created by Alex de Landgraaf... everything on one bootable CD!
Dan Creswell has released Blitz JavaSpaces 1.1.3,
an open source (BSD license) implementation of JavaSpaces
that is Jini 2.0 enabled. It implements smart indexing, tuneable persistence, and active/passive lease cleanup.
A common part of encapsulation, particularly with
object-oriented systems, is hiding data structures. Yet it's also
common to expose much of this data behind data access routines. In
this column I cover some guidelines for writing data access
routines. However don't forget that if you can leave the data hidden,
that's usually better. [martinfowler.com: Updates]
All O'Reilly articles regarding Java.
Nearly every episode of Computer Chronicles, the influential and long-running television series, is freely available on the Internet Archive. If you browse by year, you can find plenty of classic geek nostalgia dating back to 1984.
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