(computer stuff)

Free Software

Free software programs I've written alone, or am the lead developer of:

• Frozen-Bubble 2: an important revamp of Frozen-Bubble, including network game, Perl/SDL/Linux
• booh: the Web-Album of choice for discriminating Linux users, Ruby/Gtk/Javascript/Linux
• Enterprise Lunch System(R)(TM): a program which will help you socialize during lunch, PHP
• find_recent.pl: sort a hierarchy of files to display the most recent last, Perl/Linux
• gps_utm_wgs84_conv.pl: convert GPS positions between WGS84 and UTM formats, Perl/Linux
• libpng example, C/Linux.
• tunes.pl: handle money when in holidays with friends, Perl/Linux
• memotux: "simon" memory game, OCaml/SDL/Linux
• Frozen-Bubble: colourful multiplayer multimedia arcade game, Perl/SDL/Linux
• bitmapa: a "bitmap effect", e.g. a visually enhanced appearing of image, Assembler/SDL/Linux-x86
• PLEAC: common programming problems solved in many different languages, Ruby/SGML
• The Free Feed Forward Neural Network in Ruby, Ruby/Linux
• Rpmmon: a tool to monitor Freshmeat projects versions (and more), Perl/Linux
• The Free Feed Forward Neural Network. Made at The University of Tokushima (Japan), C++/Gtk/Linux
• Grany-3. The cellular automaton simulator. Full-featured. (a software project for my school, INSA Rennes), C++/Gtk/Unix

Noticeable older, non-free software I've written:

• Java applets for chemistry (a summer software project made at Imperial College, London), 1997 Java Applet
• Useless bomber games, a dynablaster clone featuring nice music, presented in Belgium, 1997 Assembler/Dos-x86

Docs

Documentation/articles/presentations I've written:

• git-on-a-shared-server
• ruby-linuxdays-2007-05-22.odp Présentation en français de Ruby, donnée aux LinuxDays de Genève, le 22 mai 2007
• po-introduction (how to produce correct translations and be teached about fuzzy entries)
• Perl Hacks: I contributed a chapter, Interactive Graphical Apps
• udp-in-ssh-tunneling (how to get DNS services even if you have only SSH access to the Internet)
• tomcat-and-i18n (how to correctly receive accented characters in your tomcat application - in french)
• java-emacs (how to make your life decent developing Java under Emacs)
• gaming-port-fowarding (how to play Crack-Attack between two people behind a firewall)
• documenting-code
• howto-adopt-gnus
• Ogg Vorbis 1.0 rules out the competition.
• A research paper on neural networks written in Japan at the University of Tokushima.

Translations from english to french:

• Hashcash FAQ
• Hacker FAQ

Random computer things:

• blog-like random things worth (maybe?) entering google index
• subpixel-hinting (it was broken on Linux last time I tried)
• killing your regexp engine (if you don't use Perl)

Contributions

Contributions to existing free software projects. All these contributions have been accepted upstream.

• ruby-gnome2 contributed code and documentation for supporting GTK+ 2.8, then 2.10 and 2.12 (became a commiter). ruby, C
• dvtitler outline patch: a patch that adds outline feature (and fade) to the dvtitler plugin for kino C++
• sdb made the postgres driver use persistent connections. C
• kannel various documentation fixes, contributed dbpool support for libsdb database backend and a small python server dedicated at receiving DLRs. C
• transcode wrote a filter to alter the white balance (to "fix" videos recorded with a broken white balance or wrongly forced to indoor/outdoor). C
• crack-attack fixed busy port when re-launching game, fixed crash on voodoo3. C++
• mkinitrd wrote the dynamic modules dependency handling (in awk, jeez..). bash, awk
• sdlperl fixed various bugs. perl, C
• ocamlsdl fixed a few bugs and contributed an easier-to-use event wrapper. ocaml, C
• gtk2-perl helped to bring out the first working version of gtk2-perl: wrote tools to automatize type wrapping, wrapped many missing classes. perl, C
• clanbomber fixed various bugs and added alternative keyboard mapping. C++
• dietlibc multiple bug reports and bug fixes, and contribution of the glob implementation. C
• xwc added small features, customizations, fixes. C++
• webmin added the postfix module. Perl
• aumix did french translation. C

Misc

• My Advogato (wow, master.. but that's really not comparable to many other "masters" who've done 50 times more achievements for free software than me)
• My Orkut profile (join the Frozen-Bubble community!)
• The Ruby User Group in french-speaking part of Switzerland I've created.

Web (poor)

• G.E.M.
• Useless.

Last modification: Sun Jun 8 00:33:24 2008