NearbyGamers

Launched on Halloween 2007, NearbyGamers was my first major Rails project, a free service for tabletop gamers to set up groups. It heavily integrates with the Google Maps API, includes subtle IP address geolocation (so visitors see content local to them), and includes a large and growing wiki of games people play.
Actually, there were a [...]

Icon O’Clock

A short-lived blog about icons.

ListLibrary

More than any other project, ListLibrary sold me on automated testing. There’s an endless variety of bizarre, broken things that email clients do and trying to present a thread coherently (let alone correctly) would be impossible without the careful, rigorous safety net of automated tests.
Because they didn’t exist in Ruby when I started, I also [...]

SIMud/Walraven

I administrated a text mud that mixed in simulation and roguelike elements.

Ocean Empires

A multiplayer web-based game.

Hennepin

A traditional text mud written in very abbreviated PHP.

Acatery

A database of the development history of muds.

Washington Post

I was actively blogging when I worked at the Post (Aug 2007 — Feb
2009), so I don’t have a lot to write about this one. Maybe in another few months I’ll have the perspective to write a nice summary.

WashingtonPost.com
Post Politcs and Blogs
Post: The Moby Quotient
Post: Politics Glossary
Choose Your Candidate
Washington Post Update (if you only read [...]

Mesa Technology

Computer handyman and budding web developer.

IBM Global Services

Remote upgrades before dawn.