Mathew's Website

These pages contain various stuff that I do or am interested in.

Programming

I have worked on various projects over the years. This site is a collection of useful stuff that I have done, which I am making available to others. In some cases, the code is a modified version of someone else's work. In other cases, the code is new work.

The projects are:

• Locale::MakePhrase - a Perl module which is used to support an application translation mechanism [ in a similar vein to gettext() ]
• HTML::Template - a Perl module written by Sam Tregar, used in the generation of web pages. This modified version is much more extensible than the origonal version.
• HTML::Template & Locale::MakePhrase integration - Information on how to use these two Perl modules, so that you can have multi-lingual templates.
• RPC::XML - a Perl module written by Randy J. Ray, used to communicate XML documents, over an RPC channel. This modified version contains support for bigints (i8), and for undef/null values (null).
• DebugWindow - a JavaScript debugging helper function, which can dump the contents of JavaScript objects.
• ErrorHandler - an error handler for JavaScript errors that occur during development of new JavaScript code.

Windsurfing

I am quite keen on windsurfing - I got out on the water whenever the conditions are good enoungh. Lately I have purchased some decent formula gear, and I am quite keen on speedsurfing.

I used to have a plastic fantastic (Bombora X-it) which managed to do 32 knots (GPS peak)... Now you can find some of my speeds at GPS-Speedsurfing.com

My favorite spot would have to be Sandy Point. This places generates super-flat water even when the wind is blowing 40+ knots...

Sometimes I take a few pics or movies. You can see them here.