Smart Categories [Java]
I worked on the back end of the initial version of Smart Categories at Amazon. Smart Categories suggests browsenodes (or categories) for a given search term.
To see it in action you can look at the left hand side of a search for hello kitty on amazon.com
miss-categorization detection [Perl prototype , C/C++]
Detects miss-classified items in the catalog. No example available.
web2.0collage [j.s. & plt-scheme & perl]
Designed with the idea of illustrating the privacy concerns of the CSS link colouring bug/feature it created a collage of websites the user had visited from its set.
Write ups:
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/07/06/06gigaom-art--intrusive-browser-scripts--web20collage-33171.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/02/1317205/Your-Browser-History-Is-Showing
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/privacy_shmrivacy_web20collagecom_knows_where_youve_been
Pigs Can Fly Site Monitor for the Android ["Java"]
A simple site monitor written for the Android. It checked at a configurable interval to see if a site was up. The purpose was to learn my way around the Android SDK more than anything else.
Device Scape port to Open Moko [library only] {C}
DeviceScape allows people that have WiFi credientals to automatically sign on to things like StarBucks, Boingo, etc. I ported the library and CLI to the OpenMoko.
http://blog.holdenkarau.com/2009/07/devicescape-now-available-on-openmoko.html
f.b. wishlist application [php]
Provide basic wishlist functionality through Amazon wishlist API and integrated into the FaceBook platform. We only ever got a few users for it though and once my VPS at the time died we decided not to bring it back online.
All The Code [Ruby on Rails, OCAML, Perl, C, Java]
All The Code was a fairly cool source code search engine (of course I am biased, being its creator). The frontend was done with Ruby on Rials, the back end work was done with a mixture of perl and OCAML along with a bit of Java test code thrown in for good measure. A tiny bit of the parsing was done in C with flex & bison, but most of it was one in OCAML. All The Code treated function calls/library includes similar to how regular search engines treat links, the hope was to return the most relevant library in this fashion. I tried to see if I could find any companies willing to use it internally, but was unable to move beyond a few beta testers. There was a free publicly available version that indexed Java. It got written up on slashdot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/05/1313253
SVN bindings for mzscheme [scheme, c, swig, perl]
I created bindings for SVN in mzscheme. Nothing too complicated, but it got me access to the main SVN repo which I'm proud of.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/COMMITTERS
Real Time / CS452 [C]
Along with a friend, we wrote an operating system for pair of x86 boxes that controlled some trains. A lot of long nights, a lot of cursing at intel, but also a lot of fun. For our "extra" we implemented a very simple networking stack.
Kernel stuff [C]
I worked on some ISLSM driver code, however that driver has since fallen by the wayside [I lost access to the card and it looks like the other contributors also drifted away] ( http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-closed@lists.debian.org/msg125896.html ). I also did a bunch of forward porting of device drivers @ Xandros. I have an inconsequential amount of code in the kernel to report signal strength for atmel wireless cards.