About three years ago we had a look at how Gambas speeds database development. Now that Gambas 2.0 is being prepared for release, it's time to see what the new version can do now. One cool feature is its ability to create a chart.

Gambas is a development environment and platform for Linux and Unix systems. It uses a custom programming language, similar tp (but not the same as and not compatible with) Microsoft’s Visual Basic.

A few days ago, I took a look at batch renaming application KRename. In this short video tutorial, I show you how to invoke KRename from within Konqueror, and walk through a simple renaming workflow with a folder of images.

Simple Invoices is a simple, lightweight web-based invoicing application. It’s an open source application that you have to install on a computer running a LAMP stack. Its hardware requirements are quite minimal, depending upon your level of usage. Simple Invoices opens in your web browser and has a simple, yet aesthetically pleasing user interface.

This tutorial describes the ASP.NET MVC project template that is installed in Visual Studio. A simple application is built, briefly touching on all of the aspects of the ASP.NET MVC framework.

Utube Ripper is an application written in Gambas that works exclusively on Linux. It's useful to download and convert Youtube videos in a simple and efficient way. You can also convert them into a non-flash format. You can use the "Rip audio only" option to extract audio from a YouTube video and can convert into an MP3 format.

In previous installments of the crash course, you've learned how to build a simple basket tool, a task manager, and even a word game. This time, let's take a look at how you can use the skills you picked up from those exercises to create a simple application launcher, which will allow you to start virtually any application without leaving the convenience of OpenOffice.org.

Navigation buttons are essential features of both web pages and application interfaces. In the following tutorial, we create an attractive navigation button in a few simple steps that can be followed even with limited Gimp knowledge.

If want to make a simple video tutorial, you can easily do it with a simple utility RecordMyDesktop. This will record all the screen activities with sound. You can control quality of video and audio. when you press on record button it will start recording, disappear the windows and appear an icon shown bow in taskbar. Output file format is .ogv. You can convert it to any format like avi, 3gp etc..