My Software Projects
In this page I keep track of my various projects involving computer science and computer programming. They are roughly ordered by year and by category.
Most recent projects (2020-2024)
my GitHub page is where all my recent activity is stored and indexed. Recently I have been working on:
- HomeAssistant DHCP server: An Home Assistant addon that runs dnsmasq as a DHCP server; the perfect tool to take control of all your home automation devices and have a single pane of glass.
- HomeAssistant RPi MQTT bridge: A software daemon to expose Raspberry PI inputs and outputs to HomeAssistant through MQTT.
- cMonitor: a Docker/LXC/Kubernetes, database-free, lightweight container performance monitoring solution.
- MallocTag: a lighweight, intrusive memory profiler that allows to categorize or “tag” memory allocation inside C/C++ projects
- Boost Intrusive Pool: A C++ memory pool that is Boost-friendly and performance oriented (zero-malloc).
Software for my Hardware projects (2017-2019)
- Light Media Center: a simple, light and fast collection of scripts, configuration files and web code to implement a basic media center capable to run on single board computers like Rasperry PI, BeagleBone, OLinuxino, etc.
- NetlistViewer: a tool capable of loading SPICE netlists and convert them in a schematic (i.e., graphical format)
Tools and Libraries (2017-2019)
At some point I started to work create and publish libraries and low-level tools designed to solve some issue I encountered in my everyday job:
- Large PCAP analyzer: a simple tool to handle large files containing captured traffic (e.g., TCP/IP)
- CPU-MEM-monitor: a simple script to log Linux CPU and memory usage over time and output an Excel-friendly report.
- rpm-make-rules-dependency-lister: a small tool to allow incremental RPM packaging, useful to speed up your deployment chain when you are packaging several RPMs
- rpm-spec-dependency-analyzer: a simple Python3 script to generate a DOT graph of the inter-dependencies among a set of SPEC files
- malloc-benchmarks: simple benchmarking scripts to run on any machine to compare different C/C++ malloc implementations.
A few more github-based projects I have contributed to are:
- ZMQ: the fastest middleware for modern message exchange!
- eclipse-bash-editor: Bash editor plugin for eclipse
Misc projects (2009-2015)
Other miscellaneous projects I created or where I collaborated:
- EmfPrinter: a virtual printer driver for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, which allows you to generate EMF and WMF
- muParser: fast math parser library
- UsbPicProg: a free and open source usb pic programmer
- OphMedRecords: a simple ophthalmic medical records archival software
Games (2009-2014)
I did create also a couple of simple games (I may open-source them in the future) using Unity (which back at the time was named Unity3D). Back at the time I contributed a simple Hermite Spline Controller but that was lost after the Unity3D Wiki was shut down.
MATLAB contributions (2009-2013)
During my PhD I have been writing ton of MATLAB code regarding the wide fields of: a) signal processing (in particular for radio and inertial signals), b) modelling of localization system signals, c) statistical estimation (e.g., imeplementation of maximum-a-posteriori estimators for specific problems), d) pattern recognition.
Most of that code is specifically tied to my scientific research and I have uploaded it at https://sourceforge.net/projects/frm-research/. Some code is generic enough to be useful to others; for this reason I’m (slowly) posting on the MATLAB FileExchange page some of my most general-purpose code.
Firefox addons (2009-2012)
I’m not a fan of XUL programming but I’m a great fan of Firefox ;)
Recently I needed to to extend its functionalities and thus I took some time to create my own Firefox addon. As almost all Firefox extensions, it’s written in a mix of JavaScript and XUL. The code was initially hosted by Mozdev.org but later I moved it to this page on Sourceforge.
In December 2009 the first public version, 0.3, was released. I’ve not been updating this extension for some time so it was eventually retired from the list of Firefox addons.
Bakefile (2007-2009)
To create all build systems for my software packages I have been using for some time Bakefile: a cross-platform, open source makefile- and IDE projects- generator. I created the bakefiles for various wxWidgets-related libraries. I’ve also contributed various patches to Bakefile: you can see them here.
wxCode (2005-2009)
I have written various components for wxWidgets hosted by wxCode and written in C++:
wxCode has been retired and its website shut down in 2018. The code is still there though. So this is the list of the components I contributed to wxCode:
wxWidgets programming (2003-2009)
wxWidgets is a powerful library and an open source C++ toolkit for cross-platform Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). I’ve submitted a good number of patches to wxWidgets project: you can browse them here. In 2007-2009 I have been one of the wxWidgets developers and I worked in many areas of the library (new widgets: wx*PickerCtrl, wxCollapsiblePane; documentation of wxWidgets, bugfixing, etc). I’ve been involved in various open-source projects related to wxWidgets:
- MathStudio: an attempt to build an easy-to-use CAS
- wxCode: a repository of wxWidgets addons
- wxArt2d: 2D drawing facilities
- wxLua: Lua bindings to wxWidgets
- wxGlPlot: a plotter for 2D/3D mathematical functions
Google Summer of Code (2006-2007)
On summer 2006 and 2007, I also partecipated to the Google Summer of Code with wxWidgets projects: the wxWidgets package manager and the XTI metadata completion.
It was a very nice experience, also because of the great help I received by my mentor, Julian Smart. Thanks to both Google, Julian Smart and wxWidgets team!
Coreutils (2006)
Back in 2006 I did contribute the --group-directories-first option to the ls GNU coreutil. Here’s the link to the coreutils ML.
PlanetSourceCode (2003-2004)
At the beginning of my programming experiences I posted some of my works at www.planetsourcecode.com.
These very old projects have been lost when PlanetSourceCode has been shut down. But I still have a copy of my old CountDown utility zipped here.