Software

I enjoy programming - been doing it since I was 8 - and getting a computer to do something for you, to specificaly meet a challenge you've got, is a fantastic feeling. Doing it for someone else can be less fun, so at home I don't currently do a great deal of it; I'm hoping this'll change in the future.

On the left you'll see some of the small personal software I've written; all in Perl or Java or for an EPOC R5 (ie. Psion) PDA. Web-based software I've written, and host here, can be found in the Tools section and on the TV pages; the source code of which can also be downloaded.

exchange-activesync-authenticator.pl is a small Perl script which demonstrates how to authenticate a given username & password against Google. I use this with mod_auth_external (with caching) to get Google Apps authentication with Subversion. YMMV.

Peridot is a system devised by Megan Beynon and myself for which we led an internship programme in summer 2004 at IBM Hursley. Some related information:

Flyer handed out at the expo to customers and press (PDF, 157KB)
BBC News coverage
New York Times coverage
IEE coverage

Elsewhere, outside of this website, Jaffa Software provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for RISC OS; and Salvare is a credit-card sized Linux distribution designed for use both as a rescue environment and temporary workstation. C7 Services is a consultancy specialising in automotive IT contract work.

The much discussed WIMP OS (an attempt to produce a fully ROX-Filer, Linux-kernel, ZeroInstall based operating system inspired by RISC OS) is largely on-hold pending both a proper website and a sub-alpha release. However the work in progress and envfs which drives it can be downloaded.