My passion is writing software and I look for opportunities for interesting side projects in addition to day to day work. Software components that are written several times can be made somewhat generic and broken out into reusable modules. In these cases, I like to create a project and make it available to the open source software development community.
Listed below are some of my more recent projects.
TaskMaster is a Ruby DSL for generating Windows Task Scheduler task XML (Note that only Vista and Server 2008 support creating tasks from XML). TaskMaster is 100% implemented and supports all of Microsoft's specifications.
IT Freelancer is a site designed to connect independent Canadian IT professionals with potential clients. It is a completely free service and will be release publicly soon. At the moment, it is beta testing. The site is built using Ruby on Rails and is waiting to be given a nice look & feel by a designer.
Complainatron (a work in progress) will be a simple, free, location-aware and anonymous API for for mobile users to randomly complain and to vote on the complaints of others. It a fun project that I and several friends came up with.
An open source framework agnostic Ruby library used to access the Defensio API. Defensio is a spam filtering service that you can use to protect your blog or web application from comment spam.
A small open source application, written using Shoes, that allows users to interact with SlimTimer. SlimTimer is a web application that allows the user to track time against tasks. It's a very useful tool for freelance developers.
An open source Ruby gem that lets developers easily hook into the Jambase (an online live concert archive) API.
An open source Java library that lets developers easily hook into the Jambase (an online live concert archive) API.
An open source .NET library that lets developers easily hook into the Jambase (an online live concert archive) API.
An open source Ruby on Rails plugin that lets developers read and write to
Tumblelogs using the Tumblr API.
(April 13, 2009) Note: Shortly I will convert this plugin to a gem in keeping with recent changes to the Rails' way of thinking about plugins
