Projects

Team

Err the Blog - Chris Wanstrath and I team up to post some of our favorite chunks of Ruby and Rails code.

FamSpam - Err Free's first product, it's all about keeping families in touch, which is applicable to the team since we all live thousands of miles away from ours.

GitHub - the baddest place on the internet to store your code.

Wayfaring - You can explore maps created by others, or create your own personalized map. Web 2.0 before they called it Web 2.0.

Solo

BlackJax - It's nothing more than a Blackjack game, but it's a fun example of the power and ease of use of Rails. The code is fairly out of date these days, though.

ErrCount - Throwback to the good old days of the internet where 28.8k modems and cgi hit-counters reigned supreme.

PJ Hyett . Net - I started domaining about ten years too late. Nevertheless, take a look if you're interested in scooping up some quality domain names.

vJot - Simple, yet extremely useful, note taking app built at RailsConf '07.

Previously

AllMod - I wanted to build this site back in college, began writing it in PHP, then in Java, then in Rails. Never really had time to go full speed ahead, but if you look at Boompa, it was going to be pretty much exactly the same.

Better Driving - Until I moved to San Francisco and decided I'd rather take the bus than own a car, I had an idea for a blog dedicated to drivers that feel that when they get behind the wheel it's more than just going from point A to point B. Until I own a car again, it will remain an idea.

Chow - Wanting to outdue ourselves again after Chowhound, The CNET crew sprinted for two months and out popped the greatest food site on the internet. I may be slightly biased.

Chowhound - Myself and two other developers at CNET managed to completely revamp one of the internet's oldest communities using Ruby on Rails in three months.

The Greed Forums - An online "meeting of the minds" for my friends and I to discuss plans and ideas for current and future business endeavors. Originally created for fun, but shortly came into its own as a useful tool. Unfortunately, the momentum died along with the original db and there hasn't been much interest to get it back going. I still think there's some potential for a board of this format where people can discuss ideas under a name that doesn't have such a negative connotation.

Thought Stream - My hand-rolled "tumblelog" that I built a while back. I used it extensively for a while, completely stopped, then moved my tumbling to Twitter.

Esoteric

Eloquent - This was a short-lived pet project of mine to make the simplest programming language possible. The idea was to write code in your natural language, thus eliminating the need for documentation, because your program would read just like a story for how it operates.

The List - This page was actually the first thing I posted on my original homepage a few years ago, so here it is recreated for nostalgia purposes.

NCC Euro Trip - Pictures from my college trip to six european cities that changed my life during the summer of 2005.