» Archive for February, 2008

How much traffic do your websites get?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 by rubypdf

Today I found a interesting website, it offers an online solution to get the traffic of given website.

Discover the Traffic a Web Site Gets
How much traffic do those websites get? Use the Traffic Estimate tool to find out approximately how much traffic a website gets by entering the URL of the web site below.

the address is:http://www.trafficestimate.com/

SSH Library for DotNet

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 by rubypdf

On RentACoder, a buyer want a C# SSH application,

We have a design for an SSH / Port Forwarding application that needs to be designed using .Net 1.1 and C#.

Attached with this bid is a PDF document outlining (to great detail) the needs of the application.

There is also a smaller application that will also need to be built using the same software.

You will be provided all images, it is important that the application looks exactly as shown in the design.

So i remember there is an article about sharpSsh on codeproject, and it also introduces another open souce SSH library for .NET,
but after I review the attachment the buyer offers, I notice the following words,

It is our request that Open Source Libraries NOT be used for this project and that all code is created in house. If Open Source Libraries are used then they should not require us to distribute our application as Open Source.

I am afraid that the buyer misunderstands the open source and license, most open source projects can be used in commercial applications, you just need take care how to use it.
SharpSsh bases on BSD license, it means you can freely use it in your application, just keep BSD License file in your application folder.
Granados SSH Library for .NET bases on Apache license, this license is also friendly for commercial applications.

reference,
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/sharpssh.aspx
http://www.routrek.co.jp/en/product/varaterm/granados.html
http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=868587

PortableNotary-an open source software to verify pdf signature

Friday, February 15th, 2008 by rubypdf

PortableNotary is an open source software to verify pdf signature, bases on iText, you can download it from here.

PortableNotary permits you to verify pdf signature. It is OS independent and can be used from command line.