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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
A commandline file fetching and Mirroring program.
A core part of every Linux distribution. Essential, for when Lynx is just too terrible to use, and there’s nothing else.
open-source software
All posts tagged open-source software
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Software >
Ruby > Ruby web programming, Ruby testing >
(on Wikipedia)
(old website, archive)
was watir.com
A functional testing tool for automating browser-based tests of web applications. It drives the Internet Explorer browser the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. It also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page.
I did some simple website testing with it.
- aka Web Application Testing in Ruby.
- Pronounced “water”.
- my Watir scripts
- Water 2.0 had support planned for Linux and Firefox using the “selenium” engine. 2019-09-29 – That engine appwars to have become https://www.selenium.dev/
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Abandoned – 2024-04-22 – No website updates in a while, and the domain is down.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.php.net/
A popular programming language for web programming.
- was Personal Home Page
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now PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
Software > Text editors >
(on Wikipedia)
https://kate-editor.org/
An excellent text editor on KDE.
kedit-
See also KWrite
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://amarok.kde.org/
summary
opinion
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Was called amaroK (ending capital letter)
Software > Programming >
(on Wikipedia)
http://scheme-reports.org/
https://www.lisp.org/
A thing made in Lisp.
I had previously been pointed towards Scheme as one of those links to precursor technology.. and I like the idea of delving into the deep dark past but that particular bit of effort didn’t pan out / feel right.
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.fluxbox.org/
A light window manager. Based on Blackbox. Not bad, but not as good as Blackbox. I liked Openbox more than this.
Blackbox has been obsoleted six ways from Sunday. See versus Blackbox.
