Jim's OSS contributions

My contributions to the Open source movement.

As you can see, there's not much at the moment, but I will keep plugging away, and will add to this as I can.

A data visualization aid for text symbol frequency

I wrote this to do some data visualization on encrypted, ascii armored pgp files. Pass it a filename, and it outputs a postscript file showing a spray of symbols, the further away from the center, the more frequent the symbol is used.

Python program to grab maps from US Census Tiger database

A small program to grab maps from the Tiger database operated by the Census department. It's crude, it's crufty, it's free, and you can get it here

Python paragraph formatter

A short bit of python that takes a bit of text, that has paragraphs delimited by one or more blank lines, and wraps them in <p><\p> tags.

para formatter

Microwave and RF calculations

Parabolic antenna and path calculator in TCL/TK. Latest version is 0.0.3 and is available Here. Enjoy

Status:= No known bugs, please inform me if you find any

Other bits of fluff.

Temperature converter, Fahrenheight/Celsius/Kelvin. Latest version is 0.01 and is available Here.

Status:= Free of known bugs. It's a rather small program, but useful. It also shows the basics of gui doodads with tcltk

Python Code to convert from a Julian day format, to dd-month. Latest version is here

15 August 2000 V0.05:
Minor code clean up, this is pretty much it unless I find (or am told about) some showstopper bugs. I'll keep trying to clean the code up, but all the features I want are here now. (At least I can't think of anything else I need/want for this) However, it is a learning project, so this might change.
14 August 2000 V0.04:
Added the ability to take a command line option of a julian day, and return the dd-month If no cmd line option is present (or it is a non-valid option) Ask for user input. Also cleaned up the code a little. There is still an annoying small bug. If you give a non-numerical value on the command line, julian goes to get_input() and asks for another, but no matter what you enter the first time, it fails, and calls get_input() again. I'll fix it as soon as I can figure out why. (I am new to Python, and am learning on a day by day basis.)
13 August 2000 V0.03:
Added the time() checks to see what the current year is, rather than hard coding to 2000. Don't know if this will work under non-unix like osen. But it _should_
12 August 2000 V0.02:
Bugfix for the poor handling of non-numerical strings, thanks to some of the posters on comp.lang.python
12 August 2000 V 0.01:
First public release

mpac, the Microwave patch antenna calculator. I didn't write this, but I submitted a couple of patches to the author, who I have been unable to contact for some time. I put this up here so that it won't vanish from the ken of man, but I make no claims to it's ownership. I do *not* have the copyright, and can only put it up here because it is open source software. If the author would like to contact me, I will gladly remove it for them to maintain again, or whatever. I found this tool quite useful, but I want no-one to be under any illusions about who wrote it.

Mpac was written by Nathan Cummins. I have no valid e-dress for him.

At some point, there are some mods I would like to make to this, but they are low on a long list of stuff I need to do.

Mpac