Software

Proven Corporation occasionally releases software for the benefit of all. Everything in this section is free software. Click on a software heading to view the project details.

Strangle: DNS Parsing for Python based on BIND

Strangle is a Python library for parsing DNS messages using libbind. Strangle allows you to see DNS messages in two ways:

  • Direct access to the libbind parsing functions (C-style)
  • A Python object with various meaningful attributes (OO-style)

Bzr Notification Plugin

The bzr_notification plugin will pop up an information window after a bzr push completes. With this plugin, you do not need to wait around watching the progress of slower pushes. When the push is complete, you will be the first to know!

LWN Comments

This is a greasemonkey script to modernize the LWN comment system. You can mark comments in the LWN site as read or unread, individually or in bulk. Also, you can enable a sort of “snob mode,” which make posts from non-subscribers collapsed by default, revealing only subscriber’s comments.

Quick oDesk Profile Link

Quick oDesk Profile is a very simple greasemonkey script to let you double-check your public profile at any time, from anywhere within the oDesk site.

Tomboy Wordcount Plugin

This is a plugin for the excellent Mono/GNOME killer app, Tomboy. Tomboy-Wordcount is an addon which will count the number of lines, words, and individual characters in a note, much like the Unix wc command.