OpenSourcer
| The WDVL believes in the Open Source movement. Since our inception, we've been providing all of our Perl scripts to our readers at no cost. We've also always supported the use of the hot Open Source software that's making news these days, including today's hotties, Linux and Apache. This section will consolidate all of our Open Source software, as well as keep you informed about the latest Open Source news and resources out there. |
internet.com's Open Source Software
| ht, WDVL's Perl-based Pre-Processor | ht is a pre-processor for HTML. It facilitates the maintenance of a large site by abstracting out common 'boilerplate' segments of code, e.g. header and footer segments that are similar system-wide. Find out more in this article. |
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| Bookmarklets | Perhaps the best kept secret in JavaScript, bookmarklets are one-line scripts attached to links that are easy to create and fun to use. Create your own bookmarklets with our new interactive tool. |
| Mother of Perl | Xhoo is a collaborative project whose goal is to create Open Source Web Catalog software for various platforms and languages that can selectively import data from the Open Directory Project. Perlhoo follows in that same tradition. |
| Hierarchical Menus | Create Mac-like cascading menus for your site automatically with this nifty tool. Peter's hierarchical menus are popular, feature rich, and highly configurable, and the tool makes installation a snap. |
| News Fader | Add a customizable news fader to your site with our newest Web-based tool. Compatible with News Harvester, this cool tool lets you configure your own fader interactively, and automatially spits out the code, just cut and paste! Available for all DHTML browsers and platforms. |
| RSS Maker | This Web-based tool makes it easy to create and maintain Rich Site Summary (RSS) files. RSS is an XML format that many content providers are using to create content channels and distribute their news. |
| Universal Related Popup Menus v 2.0 | Upgrade today to the latest version of our related popup menus: change one "parent" menu and all submenus are redefined. A complete rewrite, version 2 features unlimited submenus and multiple menus per page. |
| mirror.sh | This script is used each day to mirror the contents of the development server over to the live server. |
Open Source Software Resources
| Extropia WebWare Suite 2.0 | Towards a New Application Development Framework for Server-Side Web-Based Applications in Perl and Java |
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| The Open Source Business Model! | The ability of the OSS [Open Source Software] process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing. |
| WebReference's Open Source Area | Featuring many of the above tools, and lets more! |
| WebReference's Open Source Scripts | Here you'll find scripts used on webref, feedback forms, web-based emailers, signup scripts, popup menus, and more. |
| Linux Today | Keep up with all the latest Open Source/Linux dope on LinuxToday.com, one of the most up-to-date OS Web sites out there! |
| OpenSource.org | This site offers several complementary views of the open-source phenomenon. You can read a brief introduction, a techie/hacker's case, a businessperson's case, and a customer's case. Still not convinced? Then read some third-party case studies. |
