Non Scientific Software

miniBlog

This is a small Perl script based on ideas from blosxom that runs the front page of the script. Rather than dynamically generating the page every view this script to deigned to be run either as need or from cron or at or some other schedule. It uses the Perl module HTML-Templates and works by reading in files containing text or html from a directory and generating the default page and a series of archives using a pre assigned template. The disadvantages of this approach is that it currently does not lend itself to syndication and that there are no permanent links to articles. But on the other hand I don't have to keep splitting my Dreamweaver template in two! Ultimately I feel that the script is less featured/useful than blosxom but that it works perfectly for me!
I've recently made the final fixes and released the script.. Download the zip or tar.gz archives.

MeteoriteCount

A Perl/TK script to count and record the time meteorites fall during a shower. It also displays a rudimentary graph of the data in real time. The script makes use of the Tk, Tk::Jpeg and GD::Graph libraries - CPAN is your friend.
Here is an example of the raw data from the Leonard shower on the 19th of November 2002.

Its a work in progress but feel free to download the zip or tar.gz version if you are interested.