Active

TonightSpots

http://dc.tonightspots.com/

Started December 01, 2008

I like to go out. I love options. I love Google Maps. I made an attempt at making a simple app that aggregates geographical info, happy hour info, and Yelp reviews on bars in a given city. I live in DC so that was the obvious beginning.

Plum Football Alumni Club

http://plumfootballalumniclub.com

Started July 21, 2008

The link is the future site. My version isn't up just yet. Have a few drinks at your high school football team's golf outing, next thing you know, you're developing the site for free. I went for simplicity and if you notice the similarities to my blog, a design I'm very familiar with. I used the Flickr API to pull sets and it's developed on the Django framework.

Between Builds

http://www.betweenbuilds.com

Started December 25, 2007

So I work in the J2EE world during the day and with a 20,000 file application, it takes anywhere from two minutes to twelve minutes depending on the number of random Windows processes running or ridiculously slow security software the FEDs load on to watch you. In these boring moments, I often do nothing or read pointless news on the internet. I've purchased this URL in hopes of making a site that could be a nice haven for people to read up on development books and authors "between builds." The idea is to have minimal user generated content that uses the web, APIs, feeds, etc to aggregate the data into one central location. It's this simple.

  1. User adds book with title, author, and link to amazon(through internal Amazon search)
  2. Using a Yahoo Pipe I create, it pulls in any articles out there about the book, subject, or author
  3. Everything is categorized in some taxonomy or folksonomy
It will be Django and it will be cool. I promise.

Paradamus

http://code.google.com/p/paradamus/

Started December 25, 2007

So I never actually started this but it's an idea I have in my head and I want to do it. It will be very similar to the way Django uses Python to automatically synchronize the database and Models in a very nice ORM. I'm no PHP expert nor will I research this idea. I'm going to go at it with the brute force approach and see what happens. The name "paradamus" is for Nostradamus because some weird show just came on tv about him. The prefix "para" can mean similar to or like so let's just say that this thing will be like nostradamus in that it's smart, predicts what kind of object you're saving, and will go down in history as cool. I figure since he knew about the future and the cool thing to do is pick random words to name frameworks, it'll work for now.

Completed

Traveling Utility

http://travel.alphawit.com

Completed August 19, 2007

So I was bored one day and wanted to play with both the Kayak Search and Google Maps APIs. You can click around and see where all my friends live. As far as practical reasons, it's pretty much useless but it sorta looks cool.

Facebook Burning Pockets

http://facebook.burningpockets.com

Completed August 16, 2007

So, Burning Pockets was developed in the fall of 2006. It really didn't work out as you can see below. Once Facebook opened up their platform to the world, I decided, what the hell, a few PHP files and a subdomain and I'll make a Facebook application. It took me about two days to get everything going and I have it in my profile. As with BP, it's only in like five profiles and they're all my friends which I annoyingly harassed until they added it.

Stagnant

Burning Pockets

http://www.burningpockets.com

So the idea behind this thing was to start a social network around products so people could read reviews posted by actual people linked to them through their purchases. I learned a few things along this little journey.

  1. Designers are essential - I'm clearly not one
  2. People don't just use websites, they have to be useful
  3. PHP
  4. Rest Web Services
  5. How to make some dough using Amazon's Associate program
I had a great time with it even when I was staying up until 2am on weekdays only to wake up at 7am the next day with bright red eyes and a headache. Since it does still make me some cash (very little), I will eventually get back to this and try to make it work.

Greenback

http://alphawit.com/files

So at one point in time, I took some classes in Neural Networks and over time I've become infatuated with their use in stock market speculation. Yeah, all you finance guys out there can tell me to go to hell because if it's something that could be done, all the MIT and Cal Tech grads would have already done it, which in turn directly affects the market, and in turn makes whatever I'm working on obsolete.

Well, whatever, it's fun and everyone needs a pipe dream. I've used Matlab mostly due to it's internal matrix libraries that make it very easy to do transformations and standard arithmetic and multiplication with matrices. I've run into some problems with memory when training large amounts of data so I may port this entire thing over to Java at some point since I'm not that greatest at Matlab, especially when it comes to efficient programming.

I'll post some of the files eventually on here but as of now, it's stagnant since it's sorta like a three year project that I get to when I'm bored.

A Django site.