Freelance Writers

While everyone is playing fancy CPU burning games, some people in this world continue to worship the art of interactive fiction, AKA text-adventures. A forgotten genre in gaming, a micro universe that hides some of the world's most beautifully crafted phrases and stories. MechaniQue is an...

CATCount is useful software tool for translation industry professionals. It greatly eases task of accounting of Computer Assisted Translation jobs. CATCount does this by translating complex CAT Scheme into one easy number, i.e. CATCount. Additionally, it provides great features for printing and...

The Diabolically Uncrashable Mud Builder project is a is a lisp interpreter specialized for MUD building. The goal of the Diabolically Uncrashable Mud Builder project is to provide MUD developers a language specifically designed for the purpose. The Diabolically Uncrashable Mud Builder, as the...


Platforms: *nix

SuperKaramba is, in simple terms, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on your KDE desktop. SuperKaramba is a tool that allows anyone to easily create and run little interactive widgets on a KDE desktop. Widgets are defined in a simple text file and can be augmented...


Platforms: *nix

Hydranode Core is a modular, plugin-driven peer-to-peer client framework which is designed with true multi-network downloads in mind. Hydranode Project can be used directly via the built-in shell functionality, or via external user interfaces. To achieve the large number of features described...


Platforms: *nix

Blatte is a Perl module with text macro/markup/template language. SYNOPSIS use Blatte; use Blatte::Builtins; my $perl = &Blatte::Parse(...some Blatte program ...); if (defined($perl)) { my $result = eval $perl; if (defined($result)) { &Blatte::traverse($result, &callback); } elsif...


Platforms: *nix

Grifcat is a simple utility which monitors a Griffin Powermate and sends state change information to the calling script. It tracks the button and wheel motion, reporting each move as it occurs and accumulating net changes in both directions. It is convenient for script writers and those looking...


Platforms: *nix

Games::Euchre is an Euchre card game for humans and computers. SYNOPSIS Simply run my game wrapper: % euchre.pl or write your own: use Games::Euchre; use Games::Euchre::AI::Simple; use Games::Euchre::AI::Human; my $game = Games::Euchre->new(); foreach my $i (1..3) {...


Platforms: *nix

TVEz is a browser-based system to manage movies, shows, and clips stored on local or remote file systems. It is also a front end to the XINE video player that makes the control of the player possible from the Web browser. It gets information about movies, including an image of the cover, from...


Platforms: *nix

Blogbench is a portable filesystem benchmark that tries to reproduce the load of a real-world busy file server. It stresses the filesystem with multiple threads performing random reads, writes and rewrites in order to get a realistic idea of the scalability and the concurrency a system can...


Platforms: *nix

openTimetool project is a Web-based, sector-independent project time recording tool for service provision companies such as agencies and IT support firms. Its also ideal for publishing houses and editorial offices, consultancy firms, training companies, and freelance workers. Whats New in This...


Platforms: *nix

PyHP is a system to embed Python code in an HTML document in a way similar to how PHP works. PyHP allows use of the Python programming language in scripts similar to PHP. PyHP uses the Python 2.0 language to parse elements embedded in an HTML page. When I started this, I was enamoured with PHP....


Platforms: *nix

Textbender project is a toolkit for collaborative authoring based on structures and methods derived from nature. Structures include a genetic code, populations, and a gene pool. A text is encoded with genetic markup and then distributed out to writers to form a population of copies and a gene...


Platforms: *nix

Apache::Language is a Perl transparent language support for Apache modules and mod_perl scripts. SYNOPSIS In YourModule.pm: sub handler { my $r = shift; use Apache::Language; my $lang = Apache::Language->new($extra_args); #$lang is now a hash ref that will automacigally pick the right...


Platforms: *nix

Software::Packager::Aix is the Software::Packager extension for AIX 4.1 and above. SYNOPSIS use Software::Packager; my $packager = new Software::Packager(aix); This module is used to create software packages in a Backup-format file (bff) suitable for installation with installp. This...


Platforms: *nix

Regexp::MultiLanguage::BaseDialect takes care of most of the work of writing a dialect for Regexp::MultiLanguage. SYNOPSIS Handles interfacing with the Parse::RecDescent grammar to simplify the code that must be written for a dialect of Regexp::MultiLanguage. Dialect writers only need write...


Platforms: *nix

SaltShaker is a Python script for shaking things in the open source Blender 3d system. A lot of information/comments are included for budding Blender Python script writers. In fact if you have programmed in a few languages before, the key thing to remember with Python is that instead of using...


Platforms: *nix

RTF::Writer is a Perl module for generating documents in Rich Text Format. SYNOPSIS use RTF::Writer; my $rtf = RTF::Writer->new_to_file("greetings.rtf"); $rtf->prolog( title => "Greetings, hyoomon" ); $rtf->number_pages; $rtf->paragraph( fs40bi, # 20pt, bold, italic "Hi there!" );...


Platforms: *nix

Net::FreeDB2 is a Perl module with FreeDB generic connection class. SYNOPSIS # quick and dirty CD ripper use strict; # Make device name use Getopt::Std; $::opt_d = ; getopts (d:); my $dev = $::opt_d || /dev/cdrom; # Make a Net::FreeDB2::connection use Net::FreeDB2; my $conn =...


Platforms: *nix

GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Vorbis and Ogg playback to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing. Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently....


Platforms: *nix