"It's not code until it is documented and tested code!
and it's not documented-and-tested code until it is
thoroughly understood by someone else."
--- Software Sam, 2014
Welcome to the home of the
Software Samurai
Copyright © 2020 The Software Samurai Updated:
Software Sam presents Linux software tools, API libraries, well-documented source code, copius examples,
online docs, student exercises, bad poetry and fun for geeks of all ages and skill levels.
All code posted on this site is designed for GNU/Linux systems.
GNU/Linux does not just jump out of the box and run; it requires patience, curiosity and determination. Please help the GNU/Linux community move toward an out-of-the-box solution for students, grandmas, Liberal Arts majors and the rest of the vast non-technical world who just need to get useful work done.
If you are developing for that other operating system, shame on you! Unless you have accidentally wandered into this site while looking for porn, you are a software designer, and as such you have super-powers (able to leap tall buildings and so on). Software Sam encourages you to use those powers for Good rather than Evil.
Go to the Downloads page to download the API source and documentation,
or Click here to take the tour.
FileMangler Updated!
The current FileMangler release provides significantly improved support for smartphone and tablet devices. Copy/Cut/Paste/Rename
operations between the Linux system and the smartphone device are much faster and more stable. The underlying system tools are
not yet mature, meaning that more advanced operations such as access permission and timestamp modifications are not supported at
this time. FileMangler will integrate these advanced functions as the system tools become available.
All code posted on this site is designed for GNU/Linux systems.
GNU/Linux does not just jump out of the box and run; it requires patience, curiosity and determination. Please help the GNU/Linux community move toward an out-of-the-box solution for students, grandmas, Liberal Arts majors and the rest of the vast non-technical world who just need to get useful work done.
If you are developing for that other operating system, shame on you! Unless you have accidentally wandered into this site while looking for porn, you are a software designer, and as such you have super-powers (able to leap tall buildings and so on). Software Sam encourages you to use those powers for Good rather than Evil.
NcDialog Application Programming Interface
NcDialog is a full-featured application development library for console-based applications.Go to the Downloads page to download the API source and documentation,
or Click here to take the tour.
FileMangler Updated!
(updated, 2020-07-31)
The current FileMangler release provides significantly improved support for smartphone and tablet devices. Copy/Cut/Paste/Rename
operations between the Linux system and the smartphone device are much faster and more stable. The underlying system tools are
not yet mature, meaning that more advanced operations such as access permission and timestamp modifications are not supported at
this time. FileMangler will integrate these advanced functions as the system tools become available.
Software Sam is happy to correct any factual errors, distortions and omissions on this site; however,
Sam's opinions are based on his massive ego, and are therefore rather difficult to modify.
Technical Note: The static data of this website is constructed using HTML5 and CSS3.
All pages have been tested with Firefox 79.0, and Opera(tm) 70.0. Rendering in MS-Edge(tm) is adequate,
but no one who cares about security would use Edge (or IE) anyway.
