Free 3rd person software for linux

Since I am the person who manages the money for our house, I need an efficient way to keep track of our expenses and an easy way to calculate who owes what to whom at the end of the month. There are lots of good free software utilities for managing money like GnuCash, KMyMoney and the wonderful Gnumeric spreadsheet. I had been using Gnumeric to manage the money for the last 8 months, but now that we have some people staying at the house for just the summer, and other leaving and coming back in September, the spreadsheet was not able to adjust to these irregular circumstances.

The reason I decided to write my own application from scratch instead of using an already existing money management application was because my problem is multi-person orientation and most (if not all) of the money management programs I have tried are single-person oriented. For example GnuCash will let you setup accounts that show you all the money moving to and from a single person. But in my house things like food are paid by any person and shared by every other person. Thus to efficiently and easily calculate who owes how much, it must take into account the fact that one pizza may be paid for by one person, but it was eaten by 4 people. Also I dont want to have to divide up the amounts myself and put it into GnuCash with multiple accounts, because then I might as well be doing it on paper.

I could have spent my time learning to make an already existing application do exactly what I want; and I probably would have found something pretty close. But I decided that it would be faster to just program it from scratch and then I would be sure I would get exactly what I wanted. I think I was right; it took less then 2 weeks to finished writing this program.

The program is currently called Adventure Money, but if anyone can think of a better name for it let me know and Ill gladly change it.

When you first launch the program you will see it has five views, all of which can be seen in the screenshots below.

Persistent::LDAP is a persistent class implemented using a LDAP directory.

SYNOPSIS

use Persistent::LDAP;
use English; # import readable variable names like $EVAL_ERROR

eval { ### in case an exception is thrown ###

### allocate a persistent object ###
my $person =
new Persistent::LDAP(localhost, 389,
cn=Directory Manager, test1234,
ou=Engineering,o=Big Snow Org,c=US);

### declare attributes of the object ###
$person->add_attribute(uid, ID, String);
$person->add_attribute(userpassword, Persistent, String);
$person->add_attribute(objectclass, Persistent, String);
$person->add_attribute(givenname, Persistent, String);
$person->add_attribute(sn, Persistent, String);
$person->add_attribute(cn, Persistent, String);
$person->add_attribute(mail, Persistent, String);
$person->add_attribute(telephonenumber, Persistent, String);

### query the datastore for some objects ###
$person->restore_where(& (objectclass=person)(mail=*bigsnow.org),
sn, givenname);
while ($person->restore_next()) {
printf("name = %s, email = %sn",
$person->givenname . . $person->sn,
$person->mail);
}
};

if ($EVAL_ERROR) { ### catch those exceptions! ###
print "An error occurred: $EVAL_ERRORn";
}

ABSTRACT

This is a Persistent class that uses a LDAP directory to store and retrieve objects. This class can be instantiated directly or subclassed. The methods described below are unique to this class, and all other methods that are provided by this class are documented in the Persistent documentation. The Persistent documentation has a very thorough introduction to using the Persistent framework of classes.

eGWSync allows you to access your eGroupware contacts (which are stored in a MySQL or PostgreSQL database) through LDAP.
Youll be able to use Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook to see your contacts through your LDAP server.
Main features:
- Only replicates contacts that have been added or changed
- Does not need additional schema to be loaded into the LDAP server - only person, organizationalPerson and inetorgperson are required.
Benefits
Use the friendly and efficient eGroupware system to manage your contacts
Access the contacts from other applications like Squirrelmail or Mozilla Thunderbird.

Loose Cannon is a 3rd Person Action Game.

Demo campaign that comes with game has couple of monsters and elevator between levels.

Overflow project is a board game about chain reactions.
Overflow is a board game for two players or one player against the computer. Put pieces on the board until critical mass is reached, and watch a chain reaction go off.
Although the rules are simple, several different tactical considerations are required in order to play the game well.
The name refers to the key principle in the game that each cell on the board can hold a maximum of three units (pieces), and if you add another unit to a filled up cell, the units will be distributed to the four neighbor cells.
Main features:
- Play against the computer or another person
- Advanced hint feature
- Unlimited take backs and redos
- Ugly but scalable graphics
- Selectable colors

Space Plumber is a first-person 3d game, not much different to Doom and Quake. The main goal of Space Plumber is to reach the extraction pumps before the water level increases swamping everything.
Each of the 30 levels that conform the game have progressive difficulty by adding more pumps and consoles that you must deactivate first, and by making the map bigger. There are no enemies, you fight against time and misorientation, and you only have your skills to move inside the maze.
The 1.1.x series are a port to use the QDGDF library, making it easier to compile in a variety of systems. Its included in the package, so you dont have to download it separately.
Enhancements:
- Space Plumber has been ported to use the QDGDF library, so its compilable in a wider variety of platforms and has some new features.
- The most important new feature is sound support under Linux.
- The game itself is exactly the same.

Kbirthday is a kicker-applet that reminds you of birthdays and anniversaries from your KDE addressbook.
It uses the KDE addressbook API to access the addressbook data. So you can use your favourite addressbook frontend to manage your friends addresses, birthdays and anniversaries.
Main features:
- support for birthdays and anniversaries from kaddressbook
- configurable notification time (past and future events supported)
- highlighting of most urgent events with configurable color
- shows remaining days to every event
- shows age of a person having birthday or years of anniversary

XML::Rules is a Perl module that can parse XML & process tags by rules starting from leaves.

SYNOPSIS

use XML::Rules;

$xml = < < *END*
< doc >
< person >
< fname >...< /fname >
< lname >...< /lname >
< email >...< /email >
< address >
< street >...< /street >
< city >...< /city >
< country >...< /country >
< bogus >...< /bogus >
< /address >
< phones >
< phone type="home" >123-456-7890< /phone >
< phone type="office" >663-486-7890< /phone >
< phone type="fax" >663-486-7000< /phone >
< /phones >
< /person >
< person >
< fname >...< /fname >
< lname >...< /lname >
< email >...< /email >
< address >
< street >...< /street >
< city >...< /city >
< country >...< /country >
< bogus >...< /bogus >
< /address >
< phones >
< phone type="office" >663-486-7891< /phone >
< /phones >
< /person >
< /doc >
*END*

@rules = (
_default = > sub {$_[0] = > $_[1]- >{_content}},
# by default Im only interested in the content of the tag, not the attributes
bogus = > undef,
# lets ignore this tag and all inner ones as well
address = > sub {address = > "$_[1]- >{street}, $_[1]- >{city} ($_[1]- >{country})"},
# merge the address into a single string
phone = > sub {$_[1]- >{type} = > $_[1]- >{content}},
# lets use the "type" attribute as the key and the content as the value
phones = > sub {delete $_[1]- >{_content}; %{$_[1]}},
# remove the text content and pass along the type = > content from the child nodes
person = > sub { # lets print the values, all the data is readily available in the attributes
print "$_[1]- >{lname}, $_[1]- >{fname} < $_[1]- >{email} >n";
print "Home phone: $_[1]- >{home}n" if $_[1]- >{home};
print "Office phone: $_[1]- >{office}n" if $_[1]- >{office};
print "Fax: $_[1]- >{fax}n" if $_[1]- >{fax};
print "$_[1]- >{address}nn";
return; # the < person > tag is processed, no need to remember what it contained
},
);
$parser = XML::Rules- >new(rules = > @rules);
$parser- >parse( $xml);