Geek Cred

This is an attempt to catalog some of my open source and geek-related accomplishments. While work and personal projects tend to consume most of my “geek time”, I have fortunately managed to make a contribution to my tribe here and there.

BBspot

Published on BBspot, “the world’s greatest tech humour site”!

• Geek Overcomes Social Anxiety By Turning Life into RPG
• Geek Reveals Secrets to Success in Online Dating
• OpenBSD Enters “I’m a Mac/PC” Ad Campaign War

Dungeon Mastering

• Winner of the Get published! contest with the short story At the Request of Her Lady.

Education

• BS in Computer Engineering. University of Florida (2001)
• MS in Computer Science. University of Florida (2004)
• Somewhat silly, but definitely geeky: Architecture Review of the Nintendo® GameCube^TM CPU (pdf)

MacPorts

• Workaround for broken emacs build on OS X 10.6

QuickBooks SDK

My blog entry, Using the QuickBooks SDK via JACOB Java-COM Bridge, is currently linked to from Intuit’s QBSDK documentation (I see referrers from localhost).

SystemImager

• install script fails for packages having whitespace at end of line in stable.list

WordPress

A number of minor patches that have been included in WordPress:

• private posts are not appearing on main page for users with read_private_posts
• need a standardized way to include private posts in queries
• get_usernumposts does not count private posts for users with read_private_posts
• recent posts list on dashboard does not include private posts for users with read_private_posts