Software

Archiveopteryx

Most of my work these days is on Archiveopteryx, an open-source mail archive server.

Inspector34

Inspector34 is a transparent web proxy that records requests and responses for later playback and comparison. Useful for regression testing.

gmail-mirror

A small program that downloads messages from GMail using IMAP and stores them locally in Maildir-format mailboxes. It copes with disconnections and interruptions gracefully, and tries to pick up downloading where it left off.

Here's the source code and a more detailed description.

Loathsxome

Loathsxome is a minimalist and opinionated weblog program inspired by Blosxom.

PostgreSQL

\ef <function> allows function definitions to be edited in psql via a new pg_get_functiondef() function. (2008-07)
A clean-room reimplementation of contrib/userlock based on a specification written by Andrew@Supernews. (2006-09)
Better handling of large result sets in PL/Perl: RETURN NEXT and the new spi_query/spi_fetchrow functions. (2005-05)
Extending md5(text) to md5(bytea). (2005-05)
A complete Ethereal dissector for PostgreSQL, included in 0.10.10 and later. (2004-12)
Some PL/Perl bugfixes. (2004-10)
PQprepare() in libpq allows DBD::Pg (and others) to prepare statements without having to pre-specify parameter types. (2004-10)

Weekend hacks

A small CGI program to display my photographs (2007-11).
A small managesieve client to talk to the server in Archiveopteryx.
My program to convert an OpenSSL RSA key to a cryptlib keyset may be the only one that links to both cryptlib and OpenSSL.
I wrote some patches to madplay to make it behave as I wanted. (I sent them to the author, but the program now seems unmaintained.)
A small program to profile my day was instrumental in helping me to manage my time better.

Miscellaneous

Here's a list of CPAN modules I wrote or maintain.
I wrote mod_leech, an Apache module to implement per-user download and connection limits.
I wrote an ICMP/TCP logging program named jail many years ago.
I wrote a search engine for the Linux package archive at sunsite.unc.edu, which the linux.no maintainer graciously hosted at search.linux.no. All long gone.

(There were many things on my old web site that are not here. Some of them are gone forever. Others may make a reappearance eventually. Let me know if you're missing something.)

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
http://toroid.org/ams/
2010-04-11