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Interesting software from Freshmeat

The daily morning check at Freshmeat revealed some projects that caught my attention. I’ve not used any of these, but I think these might be useful in future.

• PortaBase1.7 is a database program for creating, browsing, and editing single-table data files. Originally developed for the Sharp Zaurus PDAs, it can also be run as a Linux, Unix, and Windows application. Notable features include an ability to change the columns at any time, views of column subsets, multi-column sorting, multi-condition filtering, CSV import and export, XML import and export, and column summary statistics. Typical uses are media inventories, reference charts, shopping lists, TODO lists, etc.
• Treebeard/Fangorn 0.8 is an XSLT IDE that allows you to load an XML file and an XSLT file (from the Web or from the local file system), edit either file, and then perform transformations. Some features include syntax highlighting, a pluggable XSLT transformer, a template browser, SAX transformations (so you can transform large files - 4MB tested), regular expression find, and displaying transformation results in HTML or plain text.
• Directory Administrator 1.5.1 is a smart LDAP directory management tool. It can be used to manage UNIX and Samba user accounts and groups in a single sign-on setup, corporate address book information, host-based access control and advanced email routing. It’s extremely easy to install and use, yet powerful at the same time.
• ArrowHead ASP Server is a Java Servlet which supports the ASP syntax and the VBScript programming language. It aims to support VBScript version 3.1 and the standard set of COM objects, but has a little ways to go yet. It is extendable using Java objects and the Server.CreateObject syntax. It has been developed and tested under Apache 1.3.x and Tomcat 4.x, but should run under any Java servlet server.