Don't worry it's not my first attempt! Actually, I've written lots of things over mumble...mumble years. (Eons ago, in a land far away, I made my living coding C. Among other things, I wrote fbackup when I worked in the HP-UX lab in Cupertino, CA. So don't worry, it's not hello_world.

I've just chucked some C code and shell scripts into the FOSS (github). The first tranche is:

1. multx (shell script): a "poor person's" configuration management utility that relies on ssh-agent, et al. Distribute files, check them, etc. on a herd of *nix boxen. Almost trivial, but very useful. http://yosj.com.au/Staff/multx.html

2. findfiles (C): GNU find is fantastic (loads more features than traditional UNIX find), but for some things I do regularly, the syntax is unwieldy. That's when I use findfiles. http://yosj.com.au/Staff/C_Programs/...findfiles.html

3. pma [Performance Monitor Analyzer] (C): used together with pmc [Performance Monitor Collector] (shell script). pmc calls iostat, vmstat and sar (when available) to collect and format data on Linux/UNIX systems. pma then scales and transforms the data into a format that can be graphed. http://yosj.com.au/Staff/C_Programs/pma/pma.html

4. tdb (C): A non-relational text database - from many years ago - that uses N-dimensional AVL trees to simulate an N-dimensional hyper-cube. AFAIK, it works well, and the way it works is interesting, but the use cases are rare. http://yosj.com.au/Staff/C_Programs/tdb/tdb.html

Over the years, I've benefited enormously from other people's FOSS efforts, and this is the first time I'm giving back. My hope is that some of these will be as useful to others as they have been to me.

I read the LQ FAQ, and I don't believe this post will put me afoul of the LQ guidelines!

So, here's my question: What suggestions can the LQ community offer for other places I might make similar posts to this one. The LQ software forum, perhaps? Outside LQ?

Of course I'd be happy to have feedback on the code too!

Tux.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum!

The LQ Software forum is great, as is the Non-Nix Programming forum.

A lot of people use github, I'm neither here nor there about it, still working so everything I write is work stuff that is owned by someone else.

As LQ members, we can post blogs. You'll see some links in my signature pointing to different blog entries of my own. Unsure if you need to be a "Member" as opposed to a Newbie before you can post blog entries. That's OK, just post 25 or more times. Reply here once or twice, reply in welcome to other members on this forum, and eventually you'll get to 25 posts and there will be zero question. Or ... just try creating a blog entry now

Personally I'd rather you continue to post your offerings to LQ, and sure to wherever else you find online where you choose to post, but for me it's most notable on LQ where most/all of my Linux online resources are found when I look for answers.

Hello and welcome to the forum

No worries, I think we're home to folks on both end of the programming spectrum, from knowing almost nothing to highly advanced, such as yourself.

Within LQ, you've probably noticed we have a specific Programming forum that might be another place you'd like to post on, along with what rtmistler has suggested. Outside LQ, I saw this one mentioned in a Ubuntu thread. There is also Stack Exchange but their format may restrict what you would like to post.

Regards...

Thanks for the feedback folks!

You're welcome