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Note: This may not be my best or most recent work, or opinion on a subject. If you are reviewing my professional abilities please ask for recent code samples. Thanks!
  • Unit circles displayed as threads An applet that displays unit circles as java components. Also allows you to add unit circles, and set their delay. Java source code included. Written 6/14/1998.
  • Rubberbanding in JDK 1.0 vs 1.1 (Java) Two applets, with source code, that illustrate the different ways in which the JDK 1.0 and 1.1 event models handle mouse operations. Java source code included. Written 5/22/1998.
  • Body Mass Index A quick and dirty Perl script to calculate your 'BMI.' Perl source included. Written 6/5/1998.
  • Navigation/Collaborative Filtering Test Experiments at combining navigation with collaborative filtering ratings. Written 12/17/1998.
  • Zip Code Lookup in MySQL A cleaner and database driven version of a classic. Perl source included. Written 9/7/2000 as a quick and dirty test case of a particular MySQL install.
  • Zip Code Lookup Search for up to 9 zipcodes, program returns their location, including latitude/longitude, and the distances between each zip code. Written in Perl, using a binary search against a 40,000+ zip code text file. Perl source code included. This was an early (for me) perl app, an attempt to implement a binary search on a 47,000 line text file. Originally written 1/29/1998, and the last few years have lead to a dramatic improvement in my Perl style and skills :-)
  • DBM sample Sample of using the DBM database module from Perl. Perl source code included. Written 9/3/1998.
  • Perl Win32::ODBC sample (4/6/99) Example of code using the Win32::ODBC module to talk to a database living peacefully as an NT datasource. This works to talk to any NT datasource, such as Access MDB files, Foxpro DBF's, MS SQL server, MySQL (using the MyODBC driver), and so on. I am still looking for code to let me talk to an Access MDB in native mode, something like "DBI::Access." If you know of such a thing, PLEASE mail me! Commented Perl Code. Written 4/6/1999.
  • Make Path Discussions on a program to automatically create a hierachical access path into the hypertext space. No code. Written 4/17/1998.
  • URL List A Java applet that displays a drop down list of URL's, with a human readable note, and then jumps to the URL selected by the user. The list of URL's is controlled by the calling HTML by the use of parameters. Java class files included. Written 9/18/1997.
  • Mailto and finger Notes for a web programming class which I assisted. Perl scripts to implement a form mailer, and to call a 'finger.' Also discussions of some of the security issues, and pointers to cgi security information. Perl source code. Written Spring 1998.
  • Make a Form An html form that lets you make a form. Currently pretty ugly... Perl source code included. written 1/28/1998.
  • Stop Writing HTML ...and start telling stories. My thinking about hypertext design. As of 4/20/98 this is almost the start of a statement.

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