Programming isn't just for adults any longer.

Programming Experience	Learning Tool	Articles
No programming experience! Young people are learning programming languages from the earliest ages and up. These tools and web sites teach young people how to program using the Java programming language, as well as languages developed for ease of use.	Download Greenfoot	Quick Intro Tutorial Wombat Object Basics (article) Wombat Classes Basics (article)
A little experience	Download BlueJ	The BlueJ Tutorial Lesson: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts About the Java Technology
Some experience	NetBeans + BlueJ	Getting Started with the NetBeans IDE 5.0 BlueJ Edition Lesson: Language Basics Lesson: Classes and Objects
Eager to learn more!	Download the NetBeans IDE	The Java Tutorial Introduction to Programming I Java Technologies in Desktop Applications Java Technologies for Web Applications Documentation, Training & Support Creating a Simple JavaFX Application Using NetBeans IDE

Moodle

The moodle team recently packaged a new release for the current 1.9 version of Moodle, as well as new releases for older 1.8, 1.7 and 1.6 versions.

Each of the new releases contains long lists of minor bug fixes (see the release notes for details). Thanks to all the developers and users who helped with finding and fixing these.

Several security vulnerabilities were also fixed in all versions, making it important that you upgrade existing Moodle sites.

Even if you can't make major upgrades in the near future, you should at least upgrade to the latest stable package for your version. (For example if you have 1.8 already, then it's very safe and easy to upgrade it to the new 1.8.6 because there are no new features, just bug fixes)

All releases are available, as usual, from the Moodle download site.

Moodle

The moodle team recently packaged a new release for the current 1.9 version of Moodle, as well as new releases for older 1.8, 1.7 and 1.6 versions.

Each of the new releases contains long lists of minor bug fixes (see the release notes for details). Thanks to all the developers and users who helped with finding and fixing these.

Several security vulnerabilities were also fixed in all versions, making it important that you upgrade existing Moodle sites.

Even if you can't make major upgrades in the near future, you should at least upgrade to the latest stable package for your version. (For example if you have 1.8 already, then it's very safe and easy to upgrade it to the new 1.8.6 because there are no new features, just bug fixes)

All releases are available, as usual, from the Moodle download site.

Download NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta!

Download NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta! NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta introduces several new features, including a robust IDE for PHP, JavaScript debugging for Firefox and IE, and support for Groovy and Grails. This release also includes a number of enhancements for Java?, Ruby and Rails, and C/C++ development. NetBeans IDE 6.5 Beta is a must-download for all developers!

Editing Your Digital Photos

You don’t need a Mac to edit your digital photos. Linux and some free software can unleash your inner Ansel Adams.
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You probably noticed, however, that your camera comes with Windows or Macintosh software — that doesn’t do much good on your Linux desktop platform. When combining your digital camera and Linux, there’s good news and bad news.
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Open Source Web Design

Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others. We help make the internet a prettier place.

They have Currently 2080 free designs!

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recordMyDesktop : desktop session recorder for Linux

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for

GNU / linux

that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.
The commandline tool (which essentially is recordMyDesktop), is written in C,

while there are two frontends, written in python with pyGtk (gtk-recordMyDesktop) and pyQt4 (qt-recordMyDesktop).

recordMyDesktop record audio offers also the ability to through ALSA, OSS or the audio server JACK

Before using recordMyDesktop, it is suggested that you visit the Documentation section of this site and in particular, read the User Guide, in order to get a better understaning of how to use the program.
Also,
recordMyDesktop produces files using only open formats
These are theora for video and vorbis for audio, using the ogg container.

(To learn more about free formats visit Xiph.org, the foundation responsible for the aformentioned formats).

MPEG4IP

MPEG4IP provides an end-to-end system to explore streaming multimedia. The package includes many existing open source packages and the "glue" to integrate them together. This is a tool for streaming video and audio that is standards-oriented and free from proprietary protocols and extensions.

Provided are a live MPEG-4/H.261/MPEG-2/H.263 MP3/AAC/AMR broadcaster and file recorder, command line utilities such as an MP4 file creator and hinter, and an player that can both stream and playback from local file.

Hébergement Open Source

Eurabia hosting Un hébergement web base sur des solutions Open Source, visitez http://www.eurabiahosting.com/

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware 2.0 Release Candidate 2

It is with great pleasure that the TikiWiki community publishes the second release candidate for TikiWiki 2.0

Tiki 2.0 was formally known as Tiki 1.10, however, with all the amazing new features & enhancements, it deserves to be called 2.0 :-) This is the next generation of TikiWiki. Special thanks to the countless people that made this release possible. Over 2 years of work and thousands of code commits!

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News on GlassFish

The GlassFish community is building free, open source, production-quality, enterprise software.


Announcing the new GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2 Milestone Release! GlassFish v3 builds on the strength of GlassFish v2 but takes a completely new approach, providing a highly modular, lightweight, extensible architecture.

Announcing the Community Awards Program to Encourage and Recognize Innovation!

NetBeans - The Only IDE You Need

A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.

The NetBeans IDE 6.1 release provides several new features and enhancements, such as rich JavaScript editing features, support for using the Spring web framework, and tighter MySQL integration. This release also provides improved performance, especially faster startup (up to 40%), lower memory consumption and improved responsiveness while working with large projects.

Neogia open source ERP

Un nouveau projet Open Source ISAE

Projet Open source d'un système d'information Unifié d'une institution universitaire l'ISAE, centre associé du CNAM.
Ce projet est destiné aux auditeurs du diplôme d'ingénieur IRSM

Axelor a annoncé la disponibilité d'une offre PGI complètement intégrée et open-source.

Les serveurs et les infrastructures web bénéficient depuis longtemps d'une offre Open-Source solide et mature, que ce soit au niveau des systèmes d'exploitation, des langages de programmation ou des serveurs d'applications. Depuis peu, il en est de même pour la bureautique.
Il restait un domaine dans lequel l'Open-Source restait très en retrait : les PGI. Mais ce temps semble révolu.
En effet, Axelor vient d'annoncer l'intégration de deux produits phare et complémentaires : SugarCRM et TinyERP. Le code employé est évidemment sous licence GPL. Selon ce fournisseur, cette intégration permet à l'utilisateur final de passer d'un module de l'un de ces deux produits à un module de l'autre sans s'en rendre compte. Bien entendu, les données sont partagées en temps réel entre les modules des deux applications, comme dans n'importe quel PGI.
Il reste à Axelor à convaincre des clients importants d'adopter cette solution.