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Rippy the Aggregator project is a lightweight RSS aggregator written in vanilla PHP.
There are several Web sites (Slashdot, for instance) that I visit regularly or semi-regularly to check for the latest news; there are also several more (like, say, the EFF) that post regular updates and that Id like to visit regularly, or that would like to have me visit regularly, but which I dont visit regularly because its just too much work to keep track of all of them, and too disappointing when I remember to check and find nothing new. I even run a Web site of my own which Id like to have people check regularly - but since I dont spend time making the rounds of my friends similar sites, I cant expect them to visit mine. Rippy the Aggregator aims to solve all these problems.
There is a standard called RSS, for Web sites to publish their updates in a machine-readable format. An appropriate client can quickly visit all the Web sites youre interested in, download their updates, and present you with a customized list of all the newest items. Most "blogging", "portal", and "content management" software already generates RSS files (although its operators may be unaware of that!), and there are services like Syndic8 that compile lists of RSS "feeds". So it only remains to get an appropriate client.
That presents a problem. I hacked an RSS output onto my Web-site updating scripts, so I had that aspect covered, but then I wanted to start reading others RSS feeds, and I discovered that the client programs you can get on the Web mostly suck. Some of them are Windows-only, so those are right out. I saw one in Java that looked pretty good, but its Web site didnt provide a way to download it except through some kind of weird Hot-Buzzy-Java-Scripted-Auto-Virus-Install-Plugin-Thing - there was no actual file. I did eventually find its source code, but it required third-party libraries.
Then I looked at several RSS readers that were written in Perl or PHP and designed to run as scripts on a Web site. Those had possibilities, but they required multiple third-party libraries (Perl) or an SQL server and compiled-in PHP modules that most people dont have (PHP).
The best attempt I found was one written in Python, but in order to make it run I had to start not one but two background server daemons, which would make it tricky to use on my office computer at school. There are Web sites that provide the service of RSS reading, but they all require registration, cookies, JavaScript, etc. I couldnt find an RSS reader (or "aggregator", as theyre called) that I could just download and have it work. Thus, it was necessary to create one: enter Rippy!
The name "Rippy the Aggregator" refers to an Arrogant Worms song about a cute, cuddly little alligator who goes "chomp, chomp, chomp," down in the bottom of the swamp, swamp, swamp. Abram Hindle has suggested that Rippy the Aggregator should go "grep, grep, grep," down in the bottom of the net, net, net. Anyone wanna write the rest of the song?
Main features:
- Cute name
- Written in PHP (needs 4.3.0 or above)
- Doesnt require any compiled-in optional libraries that dont ship with PHP
- Stores its cached data in flat files, no database needed
- Freely licensed and customizable under the GNU GPL version 2
Enhancements:
- Parser ruggedness and general stability were improved, and support was added for setting options like user agent and proxying when acting as an HTTP client.

The Romalizer project is a Tcl script to analyze your MAME roms and report errors.
The ROMalizer is a Tcl script that examines your .zip files for MAME ROMs and lets you know if you have any extra data in them. It can also report incorrect filenames, CRCs, etc.
Enhancements:
- romalizer will no longer move the zipfiles it has fixed into your roms directory unless you specify the -M option. This will allow you to run romalizer as a normal user on a roms filesystem that is only writable by root or some other games administrator. If you use the -M option, romalzier will back up your old roms into the working directory as usual, if the -M option is not used, the new (fixed) roms will be located in the working directory.
- romalizer now fully supports two new styles of merging your roms. You may now use the -g or -G options to tell romalizer to use one of these new merging formats. When -g is used, romalizer will merge all clones into a single zip file. When -G is used, romalizer will create clone zip files that are capable of being run independantly of the parent romset. I have tested these new merging features on my pacman romset and it works beautifully, however more testing probably needs to be done on a complete romset for these options.
- neogeo games are now supported, romalizer will just ignore any CRC that matches 354029fc (ng-sfix.rom), 9036d879 (neo-geo.rom), and 97cf998b (ng-sm1.rom). Thus neogeo roms are now fully supported except for these 3 which should be placed in a file called neogeo.zip.
- romalizer requires usage of UnZip version 5.41 or higher due to a Y2K bug in UnZip. This patch will now check your unzip version and abort if you do not have a recent version of UnZip.

Elgg: the Learning Landscape is a community building platform written in PHP for MySQL and Apache.
It gives you the tools to create active and vibrant learning communities, featuring Weblogging, podcasting, social networking, file storage, tag searching, customised user themes, gettext multi-language support, and more.
Users can control exactly who has access to each bit of their profile, each blog post, file, etc., and then search using tags to find other resources and people related to the same topic.
Although originally designed for education, it has a broad range of uses in a variety of different settings.
Enhancements:
- Generalised comments
- Bugfixes, efficiency improvements

Fear Stats project generates player stats from F.E.A.R. server log files, and stores them in a MySQL database.
Enhancements:
- Improved Scoring Calculations for all game modes
- Created new Sub to handle checking for existing records.
- Transactoins now fully supported for InnoDB
- Corrected Players Objective Score not calculating into total session score.

Reaper project is a fly around and shoot stuff 3D game.
Reaper is a graphics-intensive 3D-game where you fly a spaceship over a planet completing combat missions.
Apart from being a creature that tends to consume all free time of those involved, leaving them robbed of the chance of ever living a normal life, it is a 3D-game.
To clarify some more, it could be classified as a space combat simulator (well, you dont fly in space, you fly much closer to the ground, but you do pilot spaceships, so.
Enhancements:
- Cleanup of shadow system (could be even better)
- BUGFIX: Incorrect handling of textures larger than GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE
- Removed glsdk from src/ext-directory (not used)
- Added glh (gl helper library)
- Added nvparse (nvidia parser library)
- Add extgen (gl extension definition file generator)
- Changed OpenGL extensions handling from homegrown to glh/extgen
- Dynamic environment mapping on the players ship
- The autoconf setup is a bit less hackish
- Added GL-headers in src/GL - eliminates the need to adapt to broken headers on various systems.
- Fixed a time leak in the mainloop
- Improved network-startup, better synchronization
- Compiles cleanly with gcc and -ansi -pedantic -Wall -W -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused
- Changed use_texture to an int (texture_level), allowing a textured hud while object textures are turned off.

FEAR::API is a tool that helps reduce the time you spend creating site scraping scripts and helps you do it in a much more elegant way.
FEAR::API combines many strong and powerful features from various CPAN modules, such as LWP::UserAgent, Template::Extract, WWW::Mechanize, Encode, HTML::Parser, etc.
Enhancements:
- This release adds allow_domains() and deny_domains().