Tools and Software

Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition has been realeased. With the release, there have been rumors that MT will go commercial with bloggers using MT having to pay for the license. Aftermath? More migration towards WordPress!

Ximian Connector has been released under GPL. Here's the Press release. and more details here.

Same time last year, I would've probably explored my copy of digit CD for a required software or a tool. But, all this time, things have changed for me, and so has, probably, for most of us. All I do is google or search through sourceforge or freshmeat to find the required app. and install that, cleaning up the sources once everything's in place. There are so many handy applications to be tried and explored, we might lose our way exploring. Here, I list a few of those I've been using for a while.

(hassle free GUI) This weekend, we were experimenting a bit with libglade & SQLite. So, here's this write-up on libglade.... read on... *** All the time we prepared GUI for our semester projects, we had that tinge of dissatisfaction that we hadn't had a way to keep the GUI stuff outside our code and that way keep the code clean. The neccessity was felt even more when there was a requirement to redesign the GUI. Once we started hacking Evolution, we knew the best way out. The Solution was to use libglade. Much has been talked about libglade, but very less written.