Andrew Kershaw

Pcal and lcal are calendar-generation programs which produce nice-looking PostScript output. Pcal is usually used to generate monthly-format (one month per page) calendars with optional embedded text and images to mark special events (e.g. holidays, birthdays, etc). It can also generate... Platforms: *nix

JBootCat is a Java implemention of the BootCat scripts written by Marco Baroni et al for generating corpora from the Internet. JBootCats main goal is to encapsulate the BootCat functionality within a user-friendly desktop application. The advantage of using the Java platform is that JBootCat... Platforms: *nix

jTokeniser project is a Java library for tokenising strings into a list of tokens.. The website of Andrew Roberts, Schoolof Computing, University of Leeds. Research interests: Natural LanguageLearning (NLL), Grammar Inference, Natual Language Processing (NLP),Machine Learning, Clustering,... Platforms: *nix

Jacman project is a frontend for pacman software management software that comes with the equally excellent ArchLinux. Hopefully the "J" makes it obvious that this is a Java application. Archs philosophy is to keep things simple and to keep the user in control. Generally, GUI based configuration... Platforms: *nix

cx_Freeze module is a set of utilities that can freeze Python scripts into executables in a cross platform way, using many of the techniques found in Thomas Hellers py2exe, Gordon McMillans Installer, and the Freeze utility that ships with Python itself. Why did I go to the trouble of creating... Platforms: *nix

CamSketchpad is a modern recreation of Ivan Sutherlands seminal Sketchpad program. CamSketchpad is a 2D drawing / CAD program with support for geometrical constraints and the inclusion of instances referencing other drawings. It was written as a group project for the Cambridge University... Platforms: *nix

LLgen is a LL parser in the style of yacc. The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is fast, lightweight and retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, and was Minix native toolchain. The ACK was originally closed-source software (that allowed binaries to be... Platforms: *nix

DBD::ODBC Perl module contains a ODBC Driver for DBI. SYNOPSIS use DBI; $dbh = DBI->connect(dbi:ODBC:DSN, user, password); Private DBD::ODBC Attributes odbc_more_results (applies to statement handle only!) Use this attribute to determine if there are more result sets available. SQL... Platforms: *nix

TOAD C++ GUI Library aims to make GUI development being more fun. The TOAD C++ GUI Library is a set of C++ classes for developing X Window applications. Since there are so many other GUI libraries around (the living ones: GTK+, Qt, LessTif, Motif, fltk, Xclasses, notif, OpenLook, wxWindows, Fox... Platforms: *nix

JNotify is a Java library that allow Java applications to receive file system events on windows and linux. JNotify License: JNotify is licensed as Lesser General Public License, it applies to some specially designated software packages--typically libraries--of the Free Software Foundation and... Platforms: *nix

librsync is a free software library that implements the rsync remote-delta algorithm. This algorithm allows efficient remote updates of a file, without requiring the old and new versions to both be present at the sending end. The library uses a "streaming" design similar to that of zlib with... Platforms: *nix

Quilt is a set of scripts to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc. The key philosophical concept is that your primary output is patches, not ".c" files or ".h" files, so patches are the first-class object... Platforms: *nix

Vat is an audio conferencing application developed by the Network Research Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Source code and pre-compiled binaries are available via anonymous ftp. The LBNL audio tool, vat, is a real-time, multi-party, multimedia application for audio conferencing... Platforms: *nix

Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security-related features for the Linux kernel, all configurable via the new Security options configuration section. In addition to the new features, some versions of the patch contain various security fixes. The number of such fixes changes from... Platforms: *nix

bgpd.pl is a partial implementation of the BGP protocol (RFC1771) in Perl. It was writen as a tool to monitor BGP routing updates. bgpd.pl is NOT written to be used as a BGP router in an operational network, in fact is has no support to propogate routing information because there is no code to... Platforms: *nix

Cricket project is a high performance, extremely flexible system for monitoring trends in time-series data. Cricket was expressly developed to help network managers visualize and understand the traffic on their networks, but it can be used all kinds of other jobs, as well. Cricket has two... Platforms: *nix

Screensaver inspired by ElectroPaint, first created by Andrew Plotkin. It was originally on SGI machines. The screensaver contains an array or colored 2D squares that follow each other around the screen, creating different shapes randomly. Platforms: Mac

MINIUM- is a set of 76 icons that represent all of the System replacement icons. It also includes bonus hardware icons for the Mac mini, G5 tower, iPod generations, and iPod shuffle. A Pixadex iContainer version is available for auto-installing using Pixadex. Platforms: Mac

Creatures In My Head is the website of one of my favorite artists, Andrew Bell, to which he posts drawings on a weekly basis. This widget is my tribute to him. Put it in your dashboard and it will show you one of over 200 of his wicked creatures every time you activate Dashboard. Platforms: Mac

Slideshow Widget is a Dashboard widget that displays a series of images that can be presentated as a presentation along with hyperlinks to specific web pages.Right-click (control click) the widget and select "Show package contents." Then double click the Photos folder and copy your own images... Platforms: Mac