Other Projects

Here are a few of my other projects that I haven't gotten time to complete.

• Object-oriented PHP library. This used to be here, but it is now removed. Of interest is a web-site menu with pluggable display options, such as CSS, JavaScript, plain HTML. There's a sortable list (select) component, and a few other goodies. It's just not cohesive or bug-free enough to share.
• Quick project management tool. What can I build in two hours? Given I knew exactly what I wanted, I built a simple project management system at Peet's one morning. I used it for several years to run my consulting business and it works great.
• USDA database. The USDA releases the food nutritional values database periodically. I used these tables to learn MySQL and PHP, and ended up with a nifty application in the end. Of particular interest is a little UI heuristic I developed. As the data wasn't structured for browsing (at all), I synthesize this with queries and adjust based on the number of results returned. The end result is the user gets to the food of choice very quickly via a browse interface. I wish I had time to stick it up here.
• Standard Checklists. Check things off as you complete them using an Ajax interace.
• SEO. I've experimented with different SEO ideas here. My conclusion is that if you offer something of value, people will come visit you. Everything else is secondary.