Blog Posts

• 28 Jun 2013 » Machine Cloud Raspi-Shield v1 Build
• 29 May 2013 » Heroku Deploy Visualizer
• 26 May 2013 » The Heroku Outage Lights System
• 20 Jun 2011 » IMGKit 1.3 Released!
• 15 Jun 2011 » Transitioning my Jekyll site to Heroku (Rack)
• 11 Jun 2011 » Joining Heroku
• 12 Dec 2010 » Introducing IMGKit
• 29 Oct 2010 » Permutations and Combinations with Ruby's Array
• 19 Sep 2010 » Hello, strace (an introduction to strace)

Open Source

Machine Cloud

Distributed system proof of concept for Internet/Cloud of Things on Heroku

Arduino HTTP

An HTTP request library for Arduino

node-logfmt

Node.js package for consuming Heroku logp output and generic key=value logging

Lucy Goosey

Command line option parser for Ruby that exposes a single function call and just returns a Hash.

IMGKit

This is a ruby gem that uses wkhtmltoimage to generate jpgs from HTML and CSS

Cerberus Prox Frontend

This is a BDDed Rails 3 app I developed that we use at the Austin Hackerspace to manage the RFID door system

Chaos-Composer

Derive MIDI melodies from Chaotic Equations (before I learned the ways of TDD)

Talks

The Bundler: The Good, The Bad, and the NP-Complete

This is a talk on using the Bundler, given at Austin On Rails slides using Showoff

Academic Work

Musical Machines

My Master's thesis on deriving MIDI melodies from Chaotic equations

Exploiting Mindstorms NXT: Mapping and Localization Projects for the AI Course

This paper introduced two versions (Java and C) of a one-dimensional monte-carlo localizing robot for use in teaching graduate level AI courses.

Mindstorms Without Robotics

This is a paper that taught assembly programming via builing a simon says game on the Lego Mindstorms robot.