News

05-Dec-2007: PlotCraft 2.0 released. This release adds rich-text editing for ideas and a treeview for easy navigation of ideas. It also allows you to have multiple database files and to save your PlotCraft information anywhere you want.

18-Jul-2007: Blog 8.0 beta 7 released. This beta fixes issues with remote blogging support and added tag support for blogging servers that support it, such as MovableType .

21-Jul-2006: A new addition made to the Blogging Scripts section. A script to convert MovableType categories to tags.

27-Feb-2006: PlotCraft 1.1 released. This release adds some data validation, a real help file and a few other minor features.

26-Feb-2006: Blog 8.0 beta 5 released. This beta finally adds support for remote blogging servers such as WordPress. It also fixes a few issues with the category system and find feature.

07-Feb-2006: WriteTrack beta 3 released. This build allows you to keep track of income and expenses with regard to each project (posting, photocopying etc.). Also has some UI modifications/clean up. Download below.

20-Jan-2006: PlotCraft 1.0 released. This utility allows you to keep track of story/character/scene information. Useful for writers. Download below.

13-Jan-2006: WriteTrack beta 2 released. You can now generate the submissions (eitther as letters or e-mail) based on templates.

Current Projects

I'm currently working on a few different projects, all at the same time. One or other project gets some work done on it depending on what I feel like doing at the moment :p

Tagboard
I currently use a heavily modified version of QBoard since I helped with the QBoard development a bit at one point in time and I had the source with me and I figured I might as well continue work on it. So I added blacklisting and a few other things along the way. However, QBoard just takes up too much in the way of resources and since only Laurie and I use it, is too much hassle. So I wanted a stand-alone tagboard and started looking around for one that had all the features I wanted and would you believe it? There was nothing like it :p I wanted good spam protection, an admin interface, captcha verification for tags and a few other things and most of the tagboards I looked at had one but not the others. So I'm writing my own :p

Blog
Blog as always is a work in progress :p I've been meaning to release a new 8.0 beta but there are a few things I need to add to it first like getting the search functionality working, adding a global replace command and fixing all the bugs pointed out in the forums. I did however make one change recently, I updated the XMLRPC library so that it wouldn't be blocked by the WordPress bad behaviour plugin.

WriteTrack
This is the latest project in my software collection :) It's a submission tracking software for writers. I again looked around for similar free software and while there were a couple around, I either didn't like the interface or didn't like the features and so began writing my own. I've just gotten the software to initial testing stage - you can enter a list of contacts and projects and add submission information. If anybody is interested in doing beta testing and providing feedback, look in the software section below :)

Software

Blog (Updated - 2007-07-18)
A web logging utility which allows you to maintain a blog on any site which supports FTP while keeping all your entries on your own hard disk for safety. The latest beta adds tag support for remote server based blogging apps which support the feature such as MovableType.
More Info | Latest Stable | Latest Beta

Blogging Scripts (Updated - 2006-07-21)
A set of scripts to do various tasks under MovableType and WordPress. Some of these scritps might now be outdated since the particular blogging platform in question might have been updated since then and data structures have changed but still, these will provide a starting point for those who want to do the same task now.
More Info

BOB (Updated - N/A)
Beast of Burden - mass FTP software which allows you to upload the same file to multiple FTP sites in one go.
More Info | Latest Stable

Cee (Updated - N/A)
Cee is for cookie :p It's a fortune cookie application which works with Blog and shows interesting quotes on your blog. It also allows you to auto generate e-mail signature tags.
More Info | Latest Stable

MailCoder (Updated - N/A)
A tiny app to HTML encode e-mail addresses to be displayed on websites so as to stop spammerbots harvesting your e-mail address.
Latest Stable

Nailer (Updated - N/A)
Batch thumbnailing utility to create thumbnails of images and upload both the thumbnail and original to a webserver via FTP.
More Info | Latest Stable

PlotCraft 2.0 (Updated - 2007-12-05)
A small utility to keep track of all the different story/character/world ideas that you might get from time to time. It makes keeping track of all these different ideas pretty easy by way of categorization.
More Info | Latest Stable

RenX (Updated - N/A)
Explorer extension to rename multiple files easily. You can replace part of the filename or modify the filename in various ways.
More Info | Latest Stable

Schemer (Updated - N/A)
A visual CSS colour scheme generator to be used on web pages. It generates CSS for a limited number of web page elements.
Latest Stable

Scope (Updated - N/A)
A tabbed browser shell which can use either the IE or Gecko engines and can allow you to view pages in both engines side-by-side. (Has not been updated in a long time and might not work with the latest Mozilla builds.)
More Info | Latest Stable

Snipper (Updated - N/A)
A web snippets utility which allows you to take snippets from multiple sites (for instance just the comic strip from your favourite web comics) and combine those snippets into one single page for easy viewing.
Latest Stable

WriteTrack (Updated - 2006-02-07)
A submission tracking tool for writers. Helps you keep track of agents/publishers, projects and your submissions to them. Is in early beta at the moment but eventually will have a built-in expense tracking tool as well.
Latest Beta