I’ve written a few bits and pieces of software which have become useful to people. Not many though:

Magnolia Plugin

The most requested one since I broke this website is a WordPress plugin I wrote to display a user’s ma.gnolia bookmarks on a wordpress blog, since the ma.gnolia webserver wasn’t playing nicely with WordPress’s built-in RSS parser.

Now abandoned by me (I’ve gone back to using del.icio.us instead), the plugin has a new home at Alex Jones’ site:

Magnolia WordPress Plugin

Perl and Latin – together at last

The two least-understood languages in the modern world can be combined with disastrous consequences thanks to the insane genius of Damian Conway and his Lingua::Romana::Perligata module.

I wrote a JAPH to celebrate. It was my email signature for more than two years, in which time precisely one other person understood it (hi Todd!).

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata; # Barry Price - http://www.barryprice.co.uk/
da pis Just tum another tum Perl tum hacker. dum pis decapitamentum damentum
po fac sic pum scribe egresso. nisi bum tum tres aequalitam fac sic lacunam
scribe egresso. cis. bo preincresce. cis. XLIV indementum scribe egresso.