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Open Source Software by E-Scribe

In an attempt to give back at least a fragment of what I've gained from using open source software over the years, here is my motley repository of code. It's not all beautiful, but it's all been useful to me. Note that I don't indicate below which of these are "active" and which aren't; for the most part, they were one-offs, though I still use some of them daily. Others are years old. A couple of them are adaptations of existing open source material, as noted.

Licensing terms for my software are generally either the MIT license, the GPL, or the LGPL. Licensing info is at the top of each source file in most cases.

Feel free to use the feedback link below to submit bug reports, enhancements of your own, or other comments. I'd especially appreciate a note if you end up using any of this stuff in a project of your own.

AppleScript

System status applet for use with Growl

Objective-C (Cocoa)

Saskatoon, a coder's editor based on Smultron -- now inactive.

Perl

LinkToolbot.pm, a module for WWW:Shorten that generates short URLs using my link.toolbot.com service

PHP

DB_Edit class -- dynamically generate and process database (table) editing forms. See comments in source file for implementation examples. This is a big one and there may be some loose ends. Please feel free to send feedback and questions.
MiniCalendar class, a simple class for generating a small HTML monthly calendar
Lazysearch, a search proxy
Blosxearch
ScrapeRSS
Breadcrumb generator
Site status monitor
W3C date parser

Python

paste.e-scribe.com, a Django pastebin application that includes its own source
Content extraction script for XO.com's obsolescent Site Builder web page creation tool
CommentPuller class to extract comments from web pages
ProgressBar class for use with CocoaDialog
File server quota report generator. An old one-off for OS X Server 10.2, but adaptable. Useful if you have a situation where hard quotas aren't enforced for some reason. Generates overlimit reports sorted by username and by space consumption. Also leaves a text note in the user's directory informing them that they are over quota and by how much (and deletes any previous note if they are under quota.)
SPF stats generator
Interactive Postfix mail queue cleaner

Misc.

I've also contributed teeny tiny bits of code to:

And finally, for archaeological interest only, and as a tip of the 5 1/4" floppy to those innocent 8-bit computer days, some old TRS-80 games I wrote are still available online.

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