Projects & Contributions

This is a short overview of some projects I was involved in. Have also a look at my blog articles tagged with 'hack' or ' snippet' for useful tricks and howtos.

Projects started:

• python-webkit2png
  Started a project that uses Python and QtWebKit to created screenshots from headless servers. This project is continued by Admin Nelson on github.

• eibparser
  A Python tool that convert data from knxtool into a human-readable form

• Nested Scroll
  A Javascript library that implements scrollIntoViewport() for elements within nested scrollable divs.

• cp750client
  A simple client for remote controlling a Dolby CP750 digital cinema processor

• cp750-java
  Java-based successor of cp750client

• c19tracer
  Privacy focused Covid 19 tracer app

• gameplay
  Python based game launcher app for local desktops

Contributions to other projects:

• vdr-plugin-suspendoutput (a VDR plugin)
  Fixed an error that prohibited the shutdown of VDR in some situations.

• Firetray (a Thunderbird Add-On)
  Fixed a problem on message counting on uncommon IMAP directory structures.

• suphp (an Apache module)
  Emphasized a security problem in suphp "paranoid" environments and provided a patch to improve security.

• USB Relaiskarte of Ulrich Radig
  Soldered a USB relay based on a project by Ulrich Radig and heavily improved his C-based firmware for the ATmega.

• Flexbackup
  Wrote patches to this perl based backup software to read per-directory exclude expressions from files and write the backup into encrypted archives.

• Cpufreqd (a CPU frequency daemon)
  Created a patch that adds a new 'exec' directive to determine the system's state from the return value of a shell command.

Drupal modules:

• Commerce Price Table
  Fixed various issues.

• Subuser
  Provided new features.

• Quickmenu
  Fixed varius issues.

Utilities:

In this category I want to insert various little shell tools and Java libraries that I'm frequently using. But before publishing these, I have to clean up the source and add licensing information.