As you can see, there's not much here yet. But what there is may be of passing interest
(only if you're interested in that sort of thing, of course...).
Contents
Buying and Riding a Greenspeed Recumbent Trike
Courtesy of a back injury, I changed from riding an upright bike to a
recumbent tricycle. It's been fun, not least because now I'm able to cycle again, but
there has been quite a lot to learn. Here are my experiences and thoughts on
moving to a recumbent trike.
Connecting to TPG with a DLink DSL200 modem, on Linux
The
hair-raising but true tale of how I eventually got Linux
(Fedora Core 3 and 4), an ADSL USB modem (DLink DSL200 Rev B1) and my ISP (TPG) to all
talk happily together, and what I did to make it all work. Doesn't include details of
the years I aged in the process, since I don't want to put you off *too* much.
I haven't updated this since late 2006, since I'm now using an ADSL router. And
it's *so* much easier I can't recommend it too highly. Getting Linux talking to it
was the work of a couple of minutes...
JCR - A Code Review Manager
JCR is a web application I've written
to manage the process of reviewing source code, particularly Java source code. You'd
use JCR if you're a software developer, software architect, process nazi or just a
general busybody. Somehow I can't see this being my most popular project ;-}
My dbmstools utility, which generates and
maintains database schemas and data for multiple DBMSs from a single XML file. If the
preceding sentence makes you think, "Goodness, he speaks Swahili!", it's a safe bet that
dbmstools isn't for you - move along, now, nothing to see here. But if you're
thinking, "Yeah, I *need* one of those", then it's worth a look.
dbmstools can:
- Generate schema create and drop scripts
- Generate upgrade/downgrade scripts, by diffing 2 versions of the schema in XML
- Generate full documentation for the schema, including diagrams
- Reverse engineer a schema from the DBMS into XML
- Generate DBMS-specific DML (inserts, updates etc.) from a single common source
- Export data from a database, either as INSERT statements or in Postgres COPY format
- Support Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL and Hypersonic.
CLIChart
CLIChart is a toolkit for quick
visualisation of tabular data on the command line (CLI) by generating and displaying charts. It
can do all sorts of wonderful things, but it's mainly intended for those who have system
logs they'd like to understand - there's nothing like a good chart to show what's going
in a system. CLIChart also includes tools for extracting and massaging data from text sources
(like system data) - this data can then be charted.
Backing up a Nokia 6300 mobile phone, for Linux users
This is a
simple backup program for mobile phones like the
Nokia 6300. I wrote it because:
- I wanted to be able to back up all the information in the Address Book, Calendar and
TODO list on my new Nokia 6300
- I don't have Bluetooth on the computer or internet access on the phone, so I couldn't
use SyncML
- I'm using Linux, so the standard Nokia Windoze program is no use to me
- The standard Linux tools like Wammu and
Gnokii couldn't get at all the data in the phone.
The program is basic, but it works for me - maybe it will be of use to someone else as well...
Contacting me
You can get me via captsens at gmail dot com.