I worked on this project source with Paul Thurlow and later Ash Huang helped with color schemes. It was just WYSIWYG html editor using absolute positioning. I wanted to make a website that would enable small businesses (aka CMU’s food trucks) to put their products/services online. There is really no excuse for any resteraunt not to have their menu and hours online.

Of all the projects I’ve posted this one is probably the most erratic. Usually I think of something interesting (or at least I think so), do it, and then post it. That hasn’t been the case with this project for two reasons. One, it’s really hard to program something that’s subjective, like a password that’s easy to type. Two, if you have an idea while you’re programming you usually have a bunch of code already written that will help you accomplish that idea… which leads to a cycle of taking tangents and pursuing random ideas. That said here was my thought process on this project:

Hey, my Andrew ID is one handed!…
I should make a one handed password…

Well this is easy. Here are some examples of what that program produced. That’s cool… but…

ApplesToDoList.com was a project (source) I worked on the fall of 2006 with William Wedler. It was a suggestion repository for Apple that never took off. I thought all of the Apple fanboys would be interested in it… maybe it was too far ahead of it’s time. Yeah that’s it.

Almost every Mac user I know hates Windows and they exploit it’s weaknesses (pun not intended) in arguments to make it seems as though it has no redeeming qualities. Clearly that’s not true. I have decided to compile a list of some of those redeeming qualities that I would like to see Apple steal integrate into OS X. The most important thing note that all of these features can be integrated passively i.e. not require anyone to change the way they currently use OS X… so there’s no real reason not to have them.

These items are in no particular order. Sidenote: You may notice that I have Uno installed… that’s because it’s a no-brainer that Apple needs to unify its GUI. That should be the first thing on Apple’s To Do List. For the curious… this is my desktop…

Finder

Why doesn’t OS X seamlessly connect with ftp, sftp, afs…? When I “switched” I was truly disappointed. Who’s idea was it to include Connect to Server that can’t write to a server? I’m sure there is some excuse for writing being disabled, but finding that out at 2 am while trying to submit my homework left a sour taste in my mouth.

I think this is the first dynamic website I’ve ever mdae (source). I wanted to replicate the time-pressured multiplication tables that we had to do back in school. Rival product of the secretive (and expensive!) Kumon math program. My father was proud.