Open Source Contributions

Open Source Projects

LogFS: A log structured file system for Linux that supports snapshots. I developed this as a part of the Google summer of code program. Original proposal [PDF]
html2db - Tool for converting HTML pages to Docbook SGML or XML: Tidy is a utility used for cleaning up web pages. I developed a tool using tidy library that converts html documents to docbook SGML or XML. It's useful for converting your html documents to docbook format. The tool is used in The Linux Documentation Project project for converting documentation to docbook. helped. Follow this link for details
Ncurses Programming HOWTO: A comprehensive guide for programming with Ncurses with lots of ready-to-use examples.
PStats - A Personal Website Statistics package: The pstats package is a set of cgi scripts which maintain statistics for your web site. They also provide a nice counter, which you can sport on your web page. These scripts don't require any administrative privileges. The package was developed to address the need for maintaining personal website statitstics
Doclifter written by Eric Raymonds is a utility to convert to manpages to docbook. I wrote a small patch to add function synopsis parsing functionality to doclifter. It is incorporated into the current release.
I used to be a member of "The Linux Gazette Answer Gang". I regularly contributed solutions to various problems and answers to questions on Linux.

I used to write perl articles for Linux Gazette.

Exploring Perl Modules - Part 1: On-the-Fly Graphics with Perl GD Module, Issue 81 (August 2002), Linux Gazette [HTML]
Exploring Perl Modules - Part 2: Creating Charts with GD::Graph, Issue 83 (October 2002), Linux Gazette [HTML]

A complete list of my writings is here

Talk on writing a file system module
Network Programming in the Kernel, Issue 138 (October 2005), Linux Journal. [HTML]
Playing With Ptrace - Part1: System call Interception and Modification at User Level, Issue 103 (November 2002), Linux Journal. [HTML]
Playing With Ptrace - Part2: Setting Breakpoints and Injecting code into Running processes, Issue 104 (December 2002), Linux Journal. [HTML]
Mouse Programming with libgpm, January 21, 2002, Geek Culture, Linux Journal [HTML]
So You Like Color !!! (The Mysterious ^]] characters), Issue 65 (April 2001), Linux Gazette [HTML]
Linux in NT boot Menu, Issue 61 (January 2001), Linux Gazette [HTML]