Software

In the past, this website was the home to a number of applications that I’ve developed. Some were very useful in their time, others perhaps not so much. These are mostly not developed anymore — I haven’t got time to update them and there are newer alternatives which do a resonable job.

BugWatcher

Simple, fast and local viewing and editing of bug reports from various bug tracking systems, including Debian debbugs and Bugzilla

DomesDay (Formerly called Index Generator)

A powerful tool for generating site indices from the actual content of the site. Suitable for everything from static sites to complication dynamic server driven sites. Incorporates support for all common file formats (and a few others too!)

Java-Gnome

Framework for creating graphical GNOME applications with the Java programming language.

Debian Java Maintainers

I am a member of the Debian java packaging team responsible for improving the state of Java in Debian and the wider open source community. Unfortunately I haven’t had the chance to work on this recently, although I do maintain the java-gnome Debian packages.

Index Generator

An automatic website index generator. This crawled your website looking for links and generated hierarchical or A-Z style indices. Huglely sucessful, this application was used by many websites. It was included on the biggest computer magazines, so based on subscriptions has been on over 2 million CDs. When I moved to linux, I started a complete rewrite of index generator, DomesDay. Unfortunately this is still incomplete due to lack of time.

Batch Text Replacer Wizard

Replaces multiple instances of text strings across multiple files. This tool is ideal for web masters, but also useful for everyone who works on multiple documents. This hugly successful program appeared on many computer magazines cover CDs. I stopped developing it when I moved to linux and discovered sed.

QWN - Quick Website News

A set of perl scripts for managing news on websites. Featureing a full web based control system and multi-user support. This has been replaced by blogging software such as blosxom

CRAM - Content Rotation and Management

This was a system for rotating content on web sites. This supports a number of rotation types, including random, scheduled, round robin. A full web based interface (cgi) allowed the content and schedule to be edited easily

Galeon advanced GNOME web browser

I maintain Debian packages for galeon, including regular cvs snapshots. I am kept very busy dealing with bug reports.

Debian repositories and gnome-snapshot

I was hoping to create an infrastucture for managing multiple experimental distributions. The first of these would be one containing cvs builds of gnome. I didn’t have enough time to work on this properly and now that Ubuntu does such an excellent job of packaging the very latest gnome I probably won’t continue these projects.