I’m a mildly workaholic programmer sometimes. Only sometimes! I’ve been a hobbyist programmer since I was about 14. I’ve been employed full-time in a web development capacity in the newspaper industry since September of 2007. That’s kind of a long time, so I’ve had a lot of projects I’ve worked on. I’ve decided to set up this page to showcase some of them.
Around the web: Stack Overflow
BitBucket
I originally wrote Zombinanza as a silly entry into a Halloween contest. It’s written in C using the Win32 API. There is a little bit of DirectX and FLTK in there as well if I recall correctly. It was actually partly inspired by an old Windows 3.1 game called Blob Factory. It features 25 levels with multiple different level types. My favorite were the computer-inspired levels.
Link: Zombinanza
When: Circa 2005
Wallerizer was a little script I threw together to make wallpaper-sized versions of photos and illustrations on my computer. Often nice photos aren’t in the proper aspect ratio to fit on the desktop well, so this was my solution to that problem. Pretty simplistic as far as these things go, it takes the colors of the corners of the image and uses them in to make the gradients in an SVG underlay. I have a command line version floating around somewhere that provides a few more options. Such as, alignment of the original image on the output. It tries to preset a proper width and height for the user’s screen.
Link: Wallerizer
