Projects
This page catalogs some of the random projects and stuff I work on in my spare time.
captext.com
This website monitors weather alerts provided by the National Weather Service and then sends out alerts to cell phones via an email text message. You can micromanage what kind of alerts you receive and they are based on zip code, so you can use it for a number of weather related informational purposes (severe weather, event planning, boating, etc).
It was inspired by my wife after we experienced a severe thunderstorm in our area that caused some decent damage and minor flooding. She remarked that we had no way knowing about it ahead of time because we rarely watch television or listen to terrestrial radio.
The site utilizes PHP (with Smarty), MySQL, XML based web services, AJAX and Google Maps.
Portable GTD
This is a simple to-do list manager that I am working on. It is focused around task entry that you can give a project and context to and then track completion. It is built with HTML, CSS and Javascript and is designed to be transported around however (jumpdrive, ftp, etc), much in the way TiddlyWiki works. I really like the idea that the code to manage the document is inside the document itself.
Try out and download the latest version: 0.5.9
It currently only works stably in Gecko-based browsers, like Firefox and its derivatives (Flock, SeaMonkey, etc). This is something I will remedy in future releases.
Upcoming Features
Some of the features in the works are:
- Wider browser support.
- Wiki like formatting options.
- Various UI improvements in the adding and editing process.
- Starring capability for important tasks.
- Task sorting options.
You can keep an eye on this page for future releases or monitor its blog category on this site.
Portable GTD is to released under the GNU GPL version 2.
Source Code (development copy)
The human readable source code of this project is available here. WARNING: this is the latest development release and may screw up your data.
Older Releases
All older releases are available in case you might want it.
feedupon.com
This is a rss feed aggregation website that I wrote a number of years ago for my own enjoyment. It allows you to compile information from any number of feeds into a linear format. It supports searching, sorting, filtering and tagging. The web interface is very basic and a bit outdated by today’s standards. However the thing I really like about it is that once you assemble your composition of feeds, you can both subscribe to (through rss) and/or receive daily email updates on your feed composition (including any combination searching, sorting, filtering and tagging).
The site utilizes PHP (with Smarty), MySQL and RSS.
Utilities
Here are some random utilities I have put together over the years.
Database Schema Searching - This php script can search databases schema by table column name arcoss databases and servers [more info] [source].
Smarty Plugins
I use the Smarty quite extensively and over the years I have put together some plugins and other modifications. Some of them are here.
strip_tags - This is a rewrite I did of built-in plugin to extend its usefulness.
I have some more. I will try to get around to posting them soon.
Insivia
If you want to see work related stuff I have been up to you can check out Insivia’s portfolio. There is not really a project on there that I haven’t been involved in (one way or the other).