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14 Oct 2004
Welt (Windows Event Log Tool) collects event logs from an arbtrary number of Windows machines and allows for centralized reporting and monitoring. I've built in a SiteScope hook, so we were able to replace 1200 NTEventLog monitors with fewer than fifty Welt monitors, and we now have far greater flexibility with thresholds. The engineering team also uses the Welt web interface to gather information about an outage.
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31 Aug 2004
Boggle is arguably one of the best candidates for a simple online multiplayer game. All of the interaction between players is at a single moment, and the scoring can be easily automated. JavaScript with DOM allows you to do a lot of really neat things, so as a test of my skills, I decided to try to make a massively multiplayer online Boggle game. It worked, but my backend code was pretty inefficient. When I brought it down, Evan offered to mirror it. He's not only done that, but he's improved the game beyond even my plans. Check out the game.
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24 Aug 2004
Science and Industry is a teamplay based modification for the game Half-Life. I was an active part of the community for a couple years, running a server, working on some applications, helping with testing alpha versions, etc. Eventually, I became a full-fledged member of the development team, helping PapasNewBag out with the coding for the mod. Many of the visual enhancements included in version 1.0 were my contributions.
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23 Aug 2004
I discovered Crux Linux exactly when I needed to. I was getting sick of Redhat's big-endian-ness. Upgrading was always a challenge, and the complexity of the boot scripts made things really confusing. Based on a BSD-like "ports" system, Crux is a built-from-source Linux in the tradition of Gentoo. But it's far simpler, and for the first time I really feel like I understand how Linux works, from one end to the other. There's only very weak dependency support (an advantage, in my mind, over having to run
rpmwith--nodepsthree-quarters of the time), and it's not for newbies (you need to partition your disk by hand, and compile your own kernel), but I'm in love. I was a ports maintainer for several months. -
20 Jul 2004
I contribute to the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia on almost a daily basis. I've written articles on Danbury and the Danbury Fair almost from scratch, and rewritten several articles, like Handheld game console. Check out my User page for more contributions.
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20 Jul 2004
With Moveable Type, several freely available plugins, and a fair amount of HTML and CSS knowledge, I've been able to create a website with three totally independent sections, each behaving differently and managed independently. I'm fairly proud of how this website has turned out.
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24 Apr 2003
Usage: ./genpasswd.pl [OPTION]...
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4 Apr 2003
A few months ago, I was asked to make an inventory application for Priceline. I thought it would be simple. But you try making an inventory system for three different IT groups. Make it so that the networking devices and servers are logically "connected" properly, so you can search - for example - for all machines connected to a given core switch. What about tracking depreciation, and controlling who can edit what? Then write scripts that make sure that the information you can get from the Cisco switches matches with what's in the database.
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3 Apr 2003
Freshwater Software has a great site monitoring suite called SiteScope. It allows you to watch dozens of different events and resources on any number of servers. Priceline has more than 4000 monitors set up with this software watching things 24 hours a day. Unfortunately, we have these monitors across 6 servers and 3 data centers in 2 continents. We needed a way to bring all of the SiteScope data together in a single place.
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1 Apr 2003
Using some free GIS data I found online, I made a Manhattan mapping application. Now that Chris has moved to Harlem, I've started dusting this code off, trying to get it more functional. I'm hoping to be able to get subway stop data, pre-programmed points of interest, and be able to give point-to-point directions based on some miserliness and willingness-to-walk variables provided by the user.