Software

Here is a short list of some of the software I have written. There's been a lot more than this of course, but much of it was of such poor quality that it really didn't justify the waste of disk space. All software listed here is freely distributable. The rest is owned by my various current and former employers.

Software I have Written

• GNUbik. The GNU Project's rubik cube game. A 3 dimensional game written in OpenGL.
• Wday. A simple utility to list and test for public holidays in any part of the world.
• Funcfit. A program which uses Genetic Algorithms to find a polynomial approximation to an arbitrary curve.
• This one is a bit trivial, but I seem to get a lot of feedback on it. A autoconf macro to test for GNU make versus any other kind of make program. Details are here .

Software to which I have Contributed

• A free replacement for SPSS (a proprietary statistical analysis tool). It's called PSPP. If you're looking for a Free version of SPSS then PSPP is a good choice. It's not complete, but you may find it's a viable Free alternative to SPSS.
• Peter Miller's change supervision system, aegis.
• The world wide web consortium's web browser/HTML editor Amaya

Work in Progress

I'm currently working on a C++ Neural Network library, which will hopefully be useful to people writing applications needing a Neural Net. It features multi-layer perceptrons, Boltzmann machines, Kohonen nets and Hopfield nets. Currently, I'm thinking about the best way to optimise it for parallel architectures. Have a look at the web site here.

Unmaintained Software

These items I haven't looked at for some time, and don't intend to unless someone gives me the incentive.

• Drow. A rudimentary word processor application written in Tcl/Tk. It has some similarities to Word for Windows. Today however, there are much better w4w clones available. Try OpenOffice or AbiWord.
• epp. A Linux device driver for a particular brand (HI-LO) of EPROM burner. It's several years old, so won't work with the latest kernels, but could probably be got working without too much trouble.

and here is a project which I might or might not get done one day.

Third Party Software

Lots of other great software can be found by searching in the Free Software directory:

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