Projects

Here are some of the things I've created. I hope that people find them useful, helpful, or at least interesting.

California Ferret Vet List
This is an online, searchable version of the FVL maintained by Ferrets Anonymous. I didn't have anything to do with the FVL itself. I built this interface because it just didn't make sense to me that people should need to download a large PDF file and dig through it manually in order to do the simple, on-time task of finding a nearby vet. The FA agreed with my view, and loved the results enough that they have abandoned the old PDF distribution and maintain their data here instead.
DiggerDiff
I wrote this to help me find a job in this horrible economy with so many people in the tech industry unemployed. But I am sure it can be useful for other purposes as well. This program lets you keep an eye out for changes in a list of web pages. It keeps copies of old and new versions of each page and displays whether each page has changed. For changed pages, you can view just the changes, making it easier to see what has changed.
Galactic Empire Control Panel
This is a front-end program for the old MajorBBS game, Galactic Empire. It simplifies game play by replacing the old teletype interface with a screen layout that clearly displays important information, replacing complicated command sequences with one- or two-keystroke commands, and adding advanced functionality and automatic operations.
GeoCache Rating Feedback System
A proof-of-concept implementation of a feature I requested for the Geocaching website.
iFiction
An interactive fiction games site that allows playing hundreds of famous (and not-so-famous) text adventure games with nothing but a web browser. I built this with a friend after one day suddenly realizing that I knew how it could be done. So I just HAD to do it.
Place Locator
A tool to help you find the coordinates of a place with a reasonable level of precision. You don't really need coordinates with six decimals of precision, and in most cases the extra digits are meaningless.

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