Code

Software just like mom made

The following pieces of software are created and/or maintained by Phillip Pollard. Unless specifically stated otherwise they are licensed under the GNU public license or the Artistic License 2.0.

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Github

More detailed over there: https://github.com/bennie/

• twitter-delete

  Delete everything out of a twitter account. Uses browser automation (Selenium & Python) -- no need for twitter API.

• montage

  Remember those posters you might have seen? Where a character or scene from a movie was made out of a montage of hundreds of images of said movie? Yeah. Those montages are neat.

• solitaire

  A monte carlo solitaire simulator to test the effectiveness of different techniques at playing solitaire.

Perl Modules

General info:
http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/author/BENNIE
https://github.com/bennie/

• CPAN: ACME::KeyboardMarathon
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-ACME-KeyboardMarathon

  How far have your fingers moved? You know, there is a distance your fingers move to type. Have you coded a whole marathon? Module and example script for analyzing and calculating this important statistic.

• CPAN: Acme::Umlautify
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-ACME-Umlautify

  This module, part of the humor Acme namespace, will add Umlauts to about anything it can.

• CPAN: Cache::Bounded – registered
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-Cache-Bounded

  A size-aware cache that is designed for speed-of-write and with minimal measurement-overhead.

• CPAN: Rcs::Parser
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-Rcs-Parser

  Directly parse and read RCS files without needing a binary version of RCS.

• CPAN: Term::Activity
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-Term-Activity

  A module used for terminal display of non-bounded processing. It is speed-aware to keep from flooding the terminal, but still show activity.

• CPAN: Text::Delimited
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-Text-Delimited

  A module for iterative parsing of character delimited files.

• CPAN: Text::TabFile
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-Text-TabFile

  A module for dynamic iteritive parsing of tab delimited files.

• CPAN: Tkx::Login
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-Tkx-Login

  Tkx::Login provides a simple login interface for Tkx applications. Given a window value to extend, it opens a new window, queries for username and password and returns the values.

• CPAN: VMware::API::LabManager
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-VMware-API-LabManager

  This module provides a Perl interface to VMware’s Labmanager SOAP interface. It has a one-to-one mapping for most of the commands exposed in the external API as well as a many commands exposed in the internal API.

• CPAN: VMware::vCloud
  Github: https://github.com/bennie/perl-VMware-vCloud

  Beta module. Looking to have the same sort of coverage as I had with VMware::API::LabManager. This version the auth and read-only portions are functioning. More soon!

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Here there be dragons!
Below this point, the code is getting a bit old. Be warned!

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Other Items:

• irclogger.pl
  
  NV (21 Feb 2010)

  A simple IRC bot in perl. It was designed to join multiple channels on a server, log all public actions to seperate channel logs, and to handle a few direct commands.

• Horus
  
  v0.9b (Dec 7, 2009)

  Horus is a server change management and asset control system. Originally written to gain control of an unmanaged and chaotic data center, it performs passive checks for changes on servers and tracks them over time. Think of it as a reverse puppet: it watches and tracks changes, as opposed to steamrolling systems to look alike.

• phpBB Bot Sniffer
  v1.15 (23 May 2006)

  Currently, many phpBB installs are being attacked by link bots and post bots. There are several measures you can take to slow or prevent their access. This script is designed to use semantic tests to detect bots, link spammers and inactive accounts and delete them.

• phpBB User Ignore Mod
  v1.2.1 (26 Sep 2004)

  A phpBB user mod that allows the ignoring of other users posts.

• CVS Utilities
  alpha (2002)

  A collection of CVS utilties for display and analysis of software development projects.

• Dir Index
  (2002)

  A reduced version of the thumbnails idea created to be used in cron jobs for web directories of images.

• Thumbnails
  v1.0.0 (2002)

  A handy command-line tool for indexing directories of images.