My name is AJ, and I'm a web developer and software engineer out of Southern California.
four months ago
I finally got around to tackling Joe Armstrong's Ring Benchmark challenge. In my tests, it outperforms every other erlang ring benchmark from the first few pages of google results. There is one benchmark I found that ran about 1500x faster than mine, but it exits after doing absolutely nothing. I'm not counting that one =)
one year ago
I'm applying to go back to school to get another degree, and I found myself needing to fill out a lot of PDF Forms. That's evidently a difficult task on Linux. I couldn't find any simple ways to do it, anyhow. So my options were either A) print out the forms and submit my chicken scratch handwriting, or B) hack together a solution for myself. Enter GhostScript and Inkscape.
one year ago
For all you working-class heroes out there: a tool to quickly calculate an annual income and play with the numbers. Written entirely in jQuery, and as always, free for the taking.
one year ago
A selection of CakePHP goodies I've written over the past few months. Components, Behaviors, Controllers, and a bit more.