Adam's software

Here's some of the software I've written. It's mostly UNIX-oriented, although some of the stuff written in Perl / Ruby / Python / shell should be portable to most platforms.

Puzzled as to why I'm giving these all away for free? It's because I strongly believe in Free Software. (You may have heard it referred to Open Source. Read my free software page to find out more.)

Support

Just like everyone else I have to make a living. The seeming contradiction between this and Free Software can be solved with a Gift Economy or by working for a cool company that "gets it". I did plan to set up an account with affero or similar, but I ended up being far shorter of time than money, so this probably won't ever happen.

Software I still use

If I still use it regularly, chances are I'll fix bugs and provide support fairly promptly... if you can get past the mounds of spam I receive, that is :-(

My GitHub homepage and profile
GNU Stow (I maintain this, but am currently doing a bad job due to work pressures - definitely plan to get back to this when things calm down)
rypper -- an extension for managing multiple SUSE repositories via zypper
syphon -- a handy utility for syphoning chunks off the start of log-files, i.e. "in-place rotation".
quietrun -- a tiny shell-script for running a command and hiding its output unless the exit code of the command wasn't zero. Comes in handy when writing crontab files, so that you only get e-mailed when something goes wrong.
tailfgrep -- a tiny Perl script which combines the principles behind tail -f and grep into one program which acts as a filter you can pipe output to.

Software I no longer use

I don't use the following any more, at least not regularly, so they'll be less well supported.

wget-monitor -- a simple change detection Perl script for monitoring when web pages (or arbitrary URLs) change. Uses wget.
mysqldiff -- a tool for comparing MySQL database structures and returning the differences as a patch which can be piped into mysql. I don't use MySQL at the moment, but others are helping maintain this. It's also available from CPAN as MySQL::Diff.
dbm -- a simple command-line based utility for reading/writing various formats of DBM file.
PerlUnit -- a testing framework heavily based on the design common to all members of the extremely popular xUnit family.

Obsolete hacks

These are better forgotten about.

parp -- a powerful, hackerware e-mail filter with anti-spam capabilities. Uses my CPAN module Mail::Field::Received.
fmscore -- a program for ranking daily e-mail newsletters from freshmeat.net according to how interesting they are to you. I passed on maintainership of this but the new maintainer has only updated the backend CPAN module Mail::Freshmeat.
An extension to the sawfish window manager to keep track of how I'm spending my time when I'm at the console.
email2sms -- a program for compressing emails into a form suitable for sending to mobile (cellular) phones as SMS messages.
ttm (Tiny Task Manager) -- a command-line based proglette for managing your overflowing job list.
mptc (Mobile Phone Tariff Calculator) -- a program for figuring out whether you could make your mobile phone bills any cheaper. This desperately needs an overhaul but sadly (for this project, anyway) I'm shorter of time than money these days.
The nickometer, as seen in purl on EFNET #perl, and other infobots around IRC.
URI-Bookmarks -- a suite of Perl modules for parsing, manipulating and converting of collections of bookmarks in various formats. Never really got off the ground.
HTML::Navigation -- a CPAN module for making generation of navigation menus/bars in web pages easy. Looking back, I'm pretty embarrassed to have written this. It isn't specific to HTML or navigation in any way, it's just a generic tree-based templating system which is crying out for major refactoring into a more object-oriented style.
logfilterd -- a log filterer which predated things like snort and logwatch in concept, but never grew that complex, which is lucky, because I knew nothing about designing software at that stage. I wrote it for a RedHat GNU/Linux system, but it could have been adapted for any system if you knew some Perl.
A hack I invented ages ago for automated adminning of Linux Quake servers.