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G'Day ..For too long I've been mixing business with pleasure on my personal web site so I'm planning to use this domain as a clearing house for scripts and utilities I write that other web folks might find useful. I'll also be adding links to my wiki and a few other useful resources and documentation sets. |
Where I'm at now
Since the beginning of 2010 I've been working for the R&D division of Norwegian firm Tandberg (now part of Cisco) based in the Hamilton, NZ office. Our group work on a legacy product known as Cisco TelePresence Content Server a video-conference/multimedia recording, management and streaming solution. We also work on next generation products in this area which are works in progress. I'm a member of the web team doing a bunch of RIA work in Flash and Silverlight and honeing the PHP based media/content management web interface.
Moodling
In my previous role with the eLearning Centre at Waikato University I did a bunch of Moodle development. I'm the author of the Browser Capability and Course-Files Directory-Tree blocks and am currently the maintainer of the Dialogue Module.
- Dialogue Module
- Course-Files Directory-Tree Block
- XSLT transform of course archive content
- Browser Capability Block
Apps and Hacks:
Personal pet projects and tools I've knocked out over the years...
- Jiki: Simple AJAX wiki
- XApperator: Perl based MVC-like application framework
- WebNote: Perl port
- PalmBlogging: Blog posting via PalmPilot
- Usenet Fetch: retrieve and XML archive Usenet posts
- MailFetch: query mail messages from Exchange Server
- deTabliser: Display colourised table-based page layout
Perl Scripts/Modules:
Following are some resources and web utilities I've written for webmastery tasks and services that you might find useful...
- iTunesToRSS: generate RSS file from recent iTunes downloads
- IPortletRequest.pm - Perl port of the Plumtree Java EDK request API
- XMLPretty: convert XML to colourised, tag escaped HTML
- RunTests: web infrastructure test
- WebFetch: Web fetch (GET or POST)
- AutoBlogger.pm: post to MovableType
- Reporter.pm: Cron job XML report generator
- BrowserLog: Log file browser reporting
- Perl: Using DB::File
- CheckLinks: Link Checker/Reporter
- WebConf: smart searches in httpd.conf
- ExtractRedirect: list all Redirects in httpd.conf
- MetaGeta: parse HTML files for meta-data
- csvToXML: convert CSV file to XML using column names in header
- Manage an htpasswd file from the CLI
XSLT/XML templates/tools:
- Questionaire generator
- Multiple Search/Replace
- RSS to HTML convertor
- XPath query tool
- CSV to XML convertor
- parseXML: simple well formedness check
Presentations:
- OSDC2006 wrap-up
- Demystifying Servlets - a little
- Plumtree Odyssey - ADC 2005
- XSLT & XPath
- Web Services
Shell Scripts:
- find/list HTML files
- find/replace across HTML files
- Web process stats
- File types/count report
- Tail (and follow) the Apache error.log
Miscellania:
Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the
Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange
sparks of the eighth colour, octarine; where its outriders found their way
into the vats and oil stores all along Merchants Street it progressed in a
series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the Streets of the perfume
blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and
dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk
to God.
