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Crown and Cutlass project is a 3D pirate action/adventure game in the spirit of Sid Meiers Pirates!.
It is simultaneously being developed in Linux and Windows, with a strong emphasis on cross-platform compatability. The project is still early on in development, although it is just beginning to look like an actual game.
Crown and Cutlass is written in C++, using OpenGL and SDL in order to allow cross-platform compatibility.
Main features:
- Sail around the Carribean in your pirate ship
- Sail into port in Carribean towns
- Ability to save and load game
Enhancements:
- This is the data to go along with the code in our Subversion repository.
- We have rearranged the data (and added a few files) since our 1.4 release.
- However, we may not release 1.5 until after our redesign is complete.
- As a result, anyone who wants to use the code in Subversion needs this package.
- Once the next release is complete, we will remove this file as the data will be in future releases.

When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the Unix geek who wants something minimalistic.
When can keep track of things you need to do on particular dates. Its a very short and simple program, so you can easily tinker with it yourself. It doesnt depend on any libraries, so its easy to install.
You should be able to install it on any system where Perl is available, even if you dont have privileges for installing libraries. Its file format is a simple text file, which you can edit in your favorite editor.
Enhancements:
- This release adds a Danish translation.

So its not a desktop and doesnt offer you a huge pile of useless options, just the facilities needed to run your X applications and at the same time having a friendly and easy to use interface.
Objectives
Pawm goals are to be simple, small and functional. Thats important, small :), there are too bloated windows managers out there, so who wants another one ;). That means that for future releases is a very important point for us not add new features or dependencies if theyre not really necessary.
If you need to run some X apps and dont have the time, space or interest in installing a desktop like kde or gnome, then what youre looking for is pawm. Download it now and give it a try!
Functionality
As youve already guessed, it manages your windows. It provides a bar placed at the bottom of the screen to access the minimized windows, and a simple application launcher to place some icons in your desktop for frequently used applications.
Things that pawm doesnt have: keyboard support (in the todo list), workspaces, icons formats different from .xpm
To compile it the only required libraries are the Xorg/XFree86 standard libraries. It supports Xft which is the new X font library, but its no required
Platforms
Its been tested and compiled under Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, FreeBSD, NetBSD, HP-UX and OSX-XDarwin. If you got succesfull reports in other architectures let us know. It should compile in any platform, providing you use GNU make, GNU gcc, and a POSIX compatible shell.
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for a "solid" appearance when moving windows.
- An important bug with argb windows that caused crashes has been fixed.

Search-Engine-Optimized project is a free online resource for anyone who wants to step up their search engine optimization strategies to the next gear.
The web is a constantly changing place, expecially search engines, but there are numerous search engine optimization strategies that are consistant across all the major search engines, and are probably going to be very useful for a long time to come.
Read on to learn what they are and how to employ them in the development of your web site.
Main features:
SEO Rank Checker is a nice little script for checking your keyword status for a few select keywords without going through the trouble of checking the search engine result pages yourself.
- Automated fetching of the top 100 results for MSN, Yahoo and Google to check for your site.
- Easy to read, compare and print output
- Installation is super easy, just upload to your server and youre done!
- Super small script, just a few KBs of space!

Java Tools is a lightweight integrated development environment for creating, compiling, and executing Java applications and applets.
Java Tools includes point and click access to the Java files, commands, and documents. It also includes a built-in text editor and user interface for the Java debugger.
It is intended for the new Java user who needs help getting started. Its also for the more experienced Java user who wants easy access to the Java commands and a text editor.
Main features:
- GUI with built-in help and small footprint.
- Point and click access to all files (Java, manifest, HTML, image and sound) and directories (package).
- Point and click access to all commands for compiling (javac), archiving (jar), documenting (javadoc), executing (java), debugging (jdb) and disassembling (javap).
- Point and click access to all documents (Java API Specification, Java Tools and Utilities, Java Features and Java Tutorial).
- Point and click creation of all files (Java, manifest and HTML) and directories (package).
- Point and click installation of distribution archive files (Java document, Java source code, Java Tutorial and Sun Tools).
- Automatic determination of class file dependencies for archiving (jar) and documenting (javadoc) Java files.
- Checking for unused, redundant and missing imports.
- Logging of all commands invoked by GUI.
- Code metrics for Java files.
- Built-in text editor (see Edit for details).
- Built-in user interface for the Java debugger with command-line editing and history.
- Self-installing executable (Java archive file).
- Comprehensive installation and user documentation for Java and Java Tools.

KDE Internet share wizard is a Kommander script that can help you share your internet connection over LAN.
Overview:
I was on a LAN and I needed to share my internet connection because we didnt have any router.
I found this to be quite difficult, but after some searching on internet I found a very good explanation for making this work.
Now, Ive made a WindowsXP like internet connection sharing guide for all who wants to share their internet connection easy and fast.
Usage:
copy the tar.gz file contents into /usr/bin and then run:
kdeinternetshare.sh - English
For all those who are unsure how to use the guide, it should be good to stick to the default settings.
This is only a quite simple guide so suggestions and improvments are welcome.
System requirements:
- Kommander

Acme::OneHundredNotOut is a raise of the bat, a tip of the hat.

I have just released my 100th module to CPAN, the first time that anyone has reached that target. As some of you may know, I am getting ready to go back to college and reinvent myself from being a programmer into being a missionary. I dont forsee that many more Perl modules coming out of this.

Of course, this doesnt mean that Im going to abjure usage of Perl forever; any time theres a computer and something I need automated, out will come the Swiss Army Chainsaw and the job will get done. In fact, we recently needed to manipulate some text from a mission handbook to translate it into Japanese, and Perl was there handling and collating all that.

But 100 modules is a convenient place to stop and take stock, and I hope that those of you who have benefitted from my modules, programs or writing about Perl will forgive me a certain spot of self-indulgence as I look back over my CPAN career, especially since I feel that the diversity of modules that Ive produced is a good indication of the diversity of what can be done with Perl.

Lets begin, then, with some humble beginnings, and then catch up on recent history.
The Embarrassing Past

Contrary to popular belief, I was not always a CPAN author. I started writing modules in 1998, immediately after reading the first edition of the Perl Cookbook - yes, you can blame Nat and Tom for all this. The first module that I released was Tie::DiscoveryHash, since Id just learnt about tied hashes. As with many of my modules, it was an integral part of another software project which I actually never finished, and now cant find.

The first module that I ever wrote (but, by a curious quirk of fate, precisely the fiftieth module I released) was called String::Tokeniser, which is still a reasonably handy way of getting an iterator over tokenising a string. (Someone recently released String::Tokenizer, which makes me laugh.) This too was for an abortive project, webperl, an application of Don Knuths WEB system of structured documentation to Perl. However, given the code quality of these two modules, its perhaps just as well that the projects never saw the light of day.

There are a few other modules Id rather like to forget, too. Devel::Pointer was a sick joke that went badly wrong - it allowed people to use pointers in Perl. Some people failed to notice that referring to memory locations directly in an extremely high-level language was a dangerous and silly thing to do, and actually used the damned thing, and I started getting requests for support for it. Then at some point in 2001, when I should really have known better, I developed an interest in Microsofts .NET and the C# language, which I still think is pretty neat; but I decided it might be a good idea to translate the Mono projects tokenizer and parser into Perl, ending up with C::Sharp. I never got around to doing the parser part, or indeed anything else with it, and so it died a lonely death in a dark corner of CPAN. GTK::HandyClist was my foray into programming graphical applications, which started and ended there.

Bundle::SDK::SIMON was actually the slides from a talk on my top ten favourite CPAN modules - except that this changes so quickly over time, it doesnt really make much sense any more.

Finally, Array::FileReader was an attempt to optimize a file access process. Unfortunately, my "optimization" ended up introducing more overheads than the naive solution. It all goes to show. Since then, Mark-Jason Dominus, another huge influence in the development of my CPAN career, has written Tie::File, which not only has a better name but is actually efficient too.

The Internals Phase

1999-2000 were disastrous years for me personally but magnificent years Perl-sonally. Stuck in a boring job and a tiny flat in the middle of Tokyo, I had plenty of time to get stuck into more Perl development. I felt that getting involved with perl5-porters would be a good way of gettting to know more about Perl, and so I needed a hobby horse - an issue of Perls development that I cared about. Since I was in Japan and working a lot with non-Latin text, Unicode support seemed a good thing to work on, and so Unicode::Decompose appeared, while I fixed up a substantial part of the post-5.6 core Unicode support.

Id recommend this way to anyone who wants to get more involved in the Perl community, although I was very lucky in terms of who else happened to be around at the time: Gurusamy Sarathy was extremely gracious in helping me turn my fledgling C code into something fit for the Perl core, and he also helped me understand the perl5-porters etiquette (yes, there was some at the time) and what makes a good patch, while Jarkko Hietaniemi was always good for suggestions of interesting things for keen people to work on. Seriously, get involved. If I can do it, anyone can.
Anyway, this fixation with understanding the Perl 5 internals, and especially the Perl 5 compiler, (due to yet another of my Perl influences, the great Malcolm Beattie) led to quite a torrent of modules, from ByteCache, an implementation of just-in-time compilation for Perl modules, through B::Flags and B::Tree to help visualising the Perl op tree, to uninit, B::Generate, optimizer and B::Utils for modifying it.

Perl About The House

Now we abandon chronological order somewhat and take a look at the various areas in which Ive used Perl. One of these areas has been the automation of everyday life: checking my bank balance with Finance::Bank::LloydsTSB (the first Perl module to interface to personal internet banking, no less) and my phone bill with a release of Tony Bowdens Data::BT::PhoneBill.

Finance::Bank::LloydsTSB was meant to go with Finance::QIF, my Quicken file parser, to produce another now-abandoned idea, a Perl finances manager. It seemed that Im only capable of producing modules, not full standalone applications - or at least, it seemed that way until I produced Bryar, my blogging software, based on the concepts from Rael Dornfests blosxom and beginning my adventures with Andy Wardleys Template Toolkit. Bryar also tuned me in to the Model-View-Controller framework idea, of which more later.

Another project I briefly played with was a personal robot, using the Sphinx/Festival speech handling and recognition modules from Cepstral and Kevin Lenzo. I didnt have X10, so I couldnt shout "lights" into the air in a wonderfully scifi way, but I could shout "mail" and have a summary of my inbox read to me, "news" to get the latest BBC news headlines, and "time" to hear the time. Of course, getting computers to tell the time nicely takes a little bit of work. I dont like "Its eleven oh-three pee em", since thats not what someone would say if you asked them the time. I wanted my robot to say "Its just after eleven", and thats what Time::Human does. Shame about the localisation.