Pling!

WISH

ACTIVE PROJECT

WISH (the WorldIRC Services Host) is somewhat of an IRC server framework at the moment. The ultimate goal for this project is to 1. provide a framework for IRC services development in Python, 2. provide some services for WorldIRC to replace GNU World, 3. to provide an IRC client server to eventually replace WorldIRC’s ircu. For more information, see WISH pages on this site.

Magpy

ACTIVE PROJECT

Magpy is a lightweight, cross-platform Twitter client written in Python by myself and Matthew Tole.

The project is hosted on Google Code.

Live Blogging

ACTIVE PROJECT

Live Blogging is a plugin for WordPress that allows live event blogs to utilise Comet technology to reduce server load and increase speed of update delivery, as well as the entire user experience. This plugin has received quite a lot of interest, and a number of significant improvements are in the works. This plugin was awarded runner-up at the Weblog Tools Collection 2009 plugin competition. There is a screencast which better explains the functionality of this plugin.

For more information, this plugin is hosted on wordpress.org.

DX Hosting

ACTIVE PROJECT

DX Hosting is a web host hosted on the pling.org.uk servers. A number of websites are hosted on the service, which is capable of hosting bespoke setups.

For more information about being hosted on DX Hosting, e-mail chris@dxhosting.co.uk

DMDirc

ACTIVE PROJECT

DMDirc is a Java-based IRC client which I am a tester for. For more information, see the official DMDirc website.

WordPress plugins

INACTIVE PROJECT

Whilst at Nouse, I created a number of plugins for WordPress which I have uploaded to the WordPress plugins directory, which people may find useful. These can be found on my WordPress extend profile page.

WallerScript

INACTIVE PROJECT

WallerScript 3.1, an Eggdrop script written in Tcl, was written by me, based on WallerScript 3.0 by Robert Nadin and Richard Waller, for the Animebots channel protection service, which I run, on Quakenet.

This project is hosted on SourceForge.

Miscellaneous Projects

• I created a small script for organising bills in our house share that may be useful as a base if you want to do something similar.
• I’ve written a collection of scripts that act as an offline CMS with features including templating and sitemap/navigation generation, to help manage a site I maintain on a server with no scripting support.
• EATS is a simple EPOS/stock management software written for my sixth form tuckshop.
• My undergraduate dissertation evaluating a system to log in to touch-screen mobile devices using a series of taps on the screen.
• An open-source scanner for the Linux/Rst-B virus developed whilst working at Sophos.

Project Ideas

• A requirements, test case and issue tracker. Basically an open source version of Mercury’s Quality Center (which is a horrible piece of software!) – preliminary codename ‘Arete’
• Software which analyses Google Earth files (such as exported by various GPS tracker software) which detects chairlifts (i.e., straight line, constant speed for a certain length of time) and segment one Google Earth file into “ski runs” appropriately