Software and Tools
Zembly - A place for creating social applications
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I stumbled over an article about this new service at semantic-web.at. Zembly is a service where you can easily create your own social applications. You do not need any editor or file transfer software, hosting environment or anything else - except for a browser and an online connection.
Knowing some (X)HTML, CSS and Javascript won't hurt when using zembly, but it is fairly easy to create some basic service, widget, facebook or meebo application. I signed up for some experiments, but didn't find much time for more extended play arounds. But really, with a few clicks you quickly get to a usable custom little social application. Neat.
Chuck Audio Programming
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ChucK : Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Audio Programming Language. Interesting project on on-the-fly audio programming. However, it seems to be not compatible with 64bit systems and demands quite some calculation power for complex patterns. I don't know how active development is - the last release is from October 2007.
Once you get into it, it's really fun. My flatmate had to go through a phase of constant sound experiments though. You press some keys and sound appears... I felt like a little kid once I got going. Some desription here, some commands there and voilá first pattern created. I admit, my first steps where not too virtuos. I didn't dig to deep into it as my old workhorse didn't had enough calculation power for wilder experiments. And now time is slipping trough my hands.
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openProj - MSProject compatible open source
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OpenProj is a Microsoft Project compatible organisation tool. It is able to read and save files in the MS Project format but is available for free. It is now also included with Star Office in Europe and available for Linus, Unix, Mac or Windows. So far I only had a brief glimpse at it, but it could correctly open quite complex diagrams and save them correctly. So far it worked for me but I've heard from colleagues that they had some problems of it when distributing to MS Project users (not able to open).
It includes the following features:
- Earned Value costing
- Gantt chart
- PERT graph
- Resource Breakdown Structure chart
- Task usage reports
- Work Breakdown Structure chart
