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MY WEBSITES

 * crazyguyonabike - started in 2000, this is a place for bicycle tourists and
   their journals. It began with my own account of a coast-to-coast ride across
   America in 1998, and grew when I developed the code to allow other people to
   post their own accounts. There are now over 16,000 bicycle tour journals and
   articles by people from all over the world, along with more than 3,000,000
   pics uploaded by over 25,000 registered users. It is without question the
   largest repository of bicycle tour journals and content in the world, bar
   none.
   
   

 * topicwise, townwise, profilewise, bleepwise, happeningwise, realmwise and
   searchwise - this is a family of websites based on the crazyguyonabike code,
   expanding the community template into other topics and locales. All the sites
   share the same user directory, and so build a strong community network which
   will span a wide variety of content.



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DOCUMENTS AND ARTICLES

 * Résumé: I am an independent computer software developer, programming since
   1982, B.Sc. in Computer Science, and working in the industry since 1990.
   Current skills include Open Source tools such as Debian GNU/Linux, Apache,
   MariaDB, Perl, Embperl and Sphinx.
 * My reasons for choosing to work with Open Source tools
 * Embperl tutorial - an introduction to the modular abilities of Embperl.
 * Article in April 2001 issue of Dr Dobb's Journal magazine about mysearchbot,
   a Perl web indexing engine I developed.
 * Article in September 2001 issue of Dr Dobb's Journal on developing a Perl
   spellserver Web service based on SOAP::Lite.
 * Linux Network Howto: A series of three articles on building a home LAN using
   Linux, connecting it to the outside world via DSL and a packet-filtering
   firewall, and finally setting up a public web server - all using Open Source
   tools such as Linux, Sendmail, Bind, Apache, Embperl and MySQL.
 * Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap: My experiences with spambots on
   crazyguyonabike, and some of the techniques I have developed to stop them,
   using Apache, mod_perl, Perl, Embperl, MySQL and ipchains. Featured on
   slashdot and Apache Week, and referenced in the O'Reilly book "Practical
   mod_perl" by Beckman & Cholet, page 214.
 * How to Block Spam and Email Viruses at the Server: Configuring Sendmail on
   Linux to block most spam and email-based viruses, using DNS Blackhole Lists,
   Procmail and SpamAssassin.
 * Rewrites Considered Harmful? - When is "good enough" enough? Does the
   constant rewriting of tools and packages which have attained great success
   and even ubiquity really benefit anybody? Some thoughts on the subject, just
   for the hell of it. Featured on slashdot.
 * Things we always see in the movies - a tongue-in-cheek list of observations
   compiled after seeing one too many bad action movies.
 * Open Source Myths - thoughts on some of the "truths" that are spoken with
   regularity by some members of the Open Source community, which I feel are not
   always so obvious, simple, or even true. Featured on slashdot.
 * Open Source Pros and Cons - some of my thoughts on the benefits and problems
   associated with Open Source software.
 * How my name was hijacked by email scammers - Fraudsters have been sending out
   emails pretending to be me, for some odd reason. Apparently I want to
   transfer large sums of money across international boundaries. Wow, just goes
   to show, you never know what you might be up to when you're not looking.



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PERL UTILITIES

 * deep - a powerful and extensible Perl script which recursively traverses
   subdirectories, processing files that match a given filename pattern. There
   are different commands, such as find, replace and delete.
 * ping-www-server - a handy Perl script designed for running as a cronjob, to
   regularly fetch a given web page and send an email if this operation fails
   (there is some fault tolerance, e.g. it can try a certain number of times
   before giving up, and you can set a timeout for the fetch attempts). This
   script will handle webservers that have completely hung (i.e. it will
   successfully time out on the request even if the server side has not timed
   out). I have it set up to email my phone number, which results in a text on
   my cellphone. Run every minute from my backup server, it means I can be
   notified very quickly whenever MySQL decides to take a little vacation and
   stop talking to everybody.
 * swapwatch - a cron-based utility for monitoring how much swap memory is being
   used, and taking action when certain levels are reached. Useful for ensuring
   against oomkiller being invoked due to memory leaks in long-running
   processes.
 * mysearchbot - a Perl web indexing engine, published in April 2001 issue of Dr
   Dobb's Journal. The perl script is largely self explanatory. There's also a
   search template written in Embperl which demonstrates performing a search
   using the tool.
 * spellserver - a Perl spellchecking server based on SOAP::Lite, published in
   September 2001 issue of Dr Dobb's Journal.



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