James Ross

Software Developer / Consultant

Custom database driven line-of-business apps crafted for your exact needs.

• 12/24/2023 11:40 PM: -- OSS: PyTorch (GitHub) is an open-source machine learning library primarily developed by Facebook's AI Research lab (FAIR). It is widely used for various machine learning and deep learning tasks, such as building and training neural networks.
• 12/17/2023 06:45 PM: -- OSS: SciPy (GitHub / PyPI) is a fundamental algorithms library for scientific computing in Python.
• 12/10/2023 01:10 AM: -- OSS: TensorFlow (GitHub) is an open-source machine learning framework developed by the Google Brain team. It's designed to make it easier to build and train machine learning models, particularly neural networks.
• 12/03/2023 04:25 PM: -- OSS: NumPy (GitHub) NumPy is a Python library used for numerical computing that provides support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a collection of mathematical functions to operate on these arrays.
• 11/26/2023 11:15 PM: -- OSS: SQLiteStudio (GitHub) is a desktop application for browsing and editing SQLite database files.
• 11/19/2023 11:10 PM: -- OSS: OpenFL (GitHub): Build games and applications for almost every platform imaginable -- Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Flash, AIR and even HTML5.
• 11/12/2023 09:30 PM: -- OSS: OCaml (GitHub): An industrial-strength functional programming language with an emphasis on expressiveness and safety
• 11/05/2023 08:40 PM: -- OSS: Visual Studio Code (GitHub) code editor from Microsoft
• 10/31/2023 05:10 AM: -- OSS: wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
• 10/25/2023 07:00 AM: -- OSS: PyQt is a set of Python bindings for the Qt Framework and runs on all platforms supported by Qt including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
• 10/20/2023 03:50 PM: -- OSS: Cutter (GitHub): Free and Open Source RE Platform powered by Rizin!
• 10/15/2023 10:55 PM: -- OSS: Microsoft's open source ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages!
• 10/10/2023 10:00 PM: -- OSS: Microsoft's ASP.NET Core (Intro / GitHub) is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud-enabled, internet-connected apps.
• 10/05/2023 01:00 AM: -- OSS: I have used FASM; the flat assembler, in the past. It's very good!
• 10/01/2023 09:40 PM: -- OSS: I need to learn U-Boot: (GitLab) - Wikipedia | List Archives
• 09/27/2023 08:00 PM: -- OSS: AvalonEdit (GitHub) is a good WPF-based text editor component. NuGet
• 09/24/2023 07:50 PM: -- OSS: Scintilla is a multi-platform comprehensive text editor component used in many software packages! (WikiPedia)
• 09/20/2023 08:30 PM: -- OSS: Ghidra (GitHub) is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
• 09/17/2023 03:05 PM: -- OSS: VirtualBox | Source is a powerful x86/x64 virtualization program. It allows you to create virtual machine inside your computer. A very useful tool and being open source a wealth of technical information of the internal workings of modern machines and OS’s
• 09/13/2023 03:35 AM: -- OSS: WebAssembly (GitHub) is a massive open source project that allows modern browsers to execute byte code that is much more efficient than executing JavaScript. The way I see it, it’s the closes thing to running native code under a browser as possible. Very cool indeed, lots to learn.
• 09/08/2023 09:05 PM: -- OSS: V8 JavaScript Engine is Google's open source JavaScript engine. Source | Dev site.
• 09/04/2023 04:40 PM: -- OSS: Avalonia (GitHub) is a multi-platform XAML/C# development platform. It looks quite interesting and I should learn it ASAP. This article hypes it up: Multiplatform XAML/C# Miracle Package: Avalonia. Comparing Avalonia to WinUI based Solutions
• 08/31/2023 08:05 PM: -- OSS: Perl is still a thing. I worked in this language professionally for 5 years. Development | GitHub
• 08/28/2023 07:15 PM: -- OSS: Php (GitHub) Is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.
• 08/24/2023 07:15 AM: -- OSS: Haxe (GitHub) is a very interesting language designed to be transpiled into other target languages.
• 08/18/2023 07:25 PM: -- OSS: ANTLR (GitHub) is a very good parser generator. A few years ago, I experimented w/ it quite a bit. Need to some more! Example grammers can be found here: Grammars for ANTLR v4
• 08/09/2023 12:25 AM: -- Wizard: Dump the Wizard project, once-and-for-all?!!! Yes, do it!
• 08/02/2023 5:10 AM: -- OSS: ILSpy is the .NET assembly browser and decompiler. ICSharpCode.Decompiler is the decompiler sub-project (NuGet).
• 08/02/2023 5:00 AM: -- OSS: Cecil is a library to inspect, modify and create .NET programs and libraries. (NuGet)
• 07/28/2023 4:20 AM: -- OSS: SQLTools Database management for VS Code making it easier to work with your data. (GitHub | Marketplace)
• 07/24/2023 11:10 PM: -- OSS: PasswordSafe is the secure open source password manager that I have been using for years! (GitHub)
• 07/21/2023 1:00 PM: -- MISC: I might try to participate in this: Coding Challenge Announcement: Tiny Chess Bots | (GitHub)
• 07/15/2023 4:15 PM: -- OSS: PetaPoco is 'a tiny ORM-ish thing for your POCO's' that looks very interesting!
• 07/11/2023 6:30 PM: -- OSS: Entity Framework (GitHub) is a modern object-relation mapper that lets you build a clean, portable, and high-level data access layer with .NET (C#) across a variety of databases.
• 07/09/2023 12:50 AM: -- OSS: NHibernate (GitHub) is a mature, open source object-relational mapper for the .NET framework.
• 06/05/2023 11:30 PM: -- OSS: .NET MAUI: (GitHub) .NET Multi-platform App UI. Build native, cross-platform desktop and mobile apps all in one framework.
• 05/31/2023 10:45 PM: -- OSS: Xamarin: (GitHub) - Free. Cross-platform. Open source. An app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#.
• 05/26/2023 9:30 PM: -- OSS: Roslyn: (GitHub) The .NET Compiler Platform SDK
• 05/21/2023 9:30 PM: -- OSS: JavaParser: (GitHub) - Java 1-17 Parser and Abstract Syntax Tree for Java with advanced analysis functionalities..
• 05/16/2023 4:10 PM: -- OSS: PostgreSQL: (Repo) is the World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database.
• 05/11/2023 5:15 AM: -- OSS: MySQL Community Edition (GitHub) is the freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database.
• 05/06/2023 6:30 PM: -- OSS: Mako (GitHub) is a template library written in Python which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance.
• 05/01/2023 4:00 PM: -- OSS: High quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite: DB Browser for SQLite (GitHub)
• 04/26/2023 10:45 PM: -- OSS: Simple, powerful, cross-platform SQLite client and ORM for .NET: SQLite-net (NuGet)
• 04/21/2023 9:15 PM: -- Blog: A Simple Database Example in LibreOffice
• 04/17/2023 11:15 PM: -- Blog: A Very Simple Database Example
• 04/13/2023 2:40 AM: -- Blog: What is a database?
• 04/09/2023 8:00 PM: -- OSS: Both of these projects are good for learning recursive descent parsing:
  • Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter by Ruslan Spivak (GitHub)
  • and Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom (free Web version of book | GitHub).
• 04/02/2023 5:15 AM: -- OSS: A good way to learn the basics of Lex/Yacc -- Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) (GitHub).
• 03/30/2023 0:15 AM: -- Blog: Open Source Software (OSS).
• 03/27/2023 6:30 PM: -- Blog: Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• 03/24/2023 8:00 PM: -- IIS: Add IIS Mapping for Python.
• 03/21/2023 2:25 PM: -- OSS: Peewee database ORM.
• 03/18/2023 1:10 AM: -- OSS: SQLite is an excellent lightweight database with great speed for embedding a database in your app.
• 03/15/2023 10:30 PM: -- OSS: Very easy to use Python GUI: PySimpleGUI.
• 03/15/2023 9:00 PM: -- Again, start over, re-boot this site, and re-boot my programming career!
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