Selected Projects

Transitopia

An online map of cycling, pedestrian, and transit routes.

Active: 2024 - present

Role: Sole developer

CalendarDate

A tiny, high performance TypeScript library for dealing with calendar dates like "August 15, 2023".

Active: 2023 - present

Role: Sole developer

quantity-math-js

A TypeScript library for dealing with numbers with units like "10 meters".

Active: 2022 - present

Role: Sole developer

Neolace

A next-generation knowledge graph platform. Like a wiki that has keeps itself up to date and has integrated review workflows and graph visualizations.

Active: 2021 - present

Role: Lead developer

s3-lite-client

A lightweight but powerful S3 client

Active: 2021 - present

Role: Sole developer

Vertex Framework

A TypeScript graph data management framework that adds type safety and ORM-like features to Neo4j.

Active: 2020 - 2023

Role: Sole developer

TechNotes

An open engineering library that aimed "to provide a comprehensive, open, practical library of technological knowledge."

Active: 2020 - 2023

Role: Founder, lead developer

LabXchange

LabXchange is a very feature-rich life sciences education platform and community, powered by Open edX, Django, and Discourse. An OpenCraft project.

Active: 2018 - 2020

Role: Lead developer

BORIS

Game engine and mobile web app that powers "Apocalypse Made Easy", an outdoor, team-based apocalypse survival training game.

Active: 2017 - 2019

Role: Lead developer

Ratio

Simple, flexible web application for managing personal budgets.

Active: 2017

Role: Sole developer

Open edX SAML/Shibboleth Integration

I was the lead developer of the new SSO features of the Open edX Cypress release, which included SAML/Shibboleth integration. An OpenCraft project.

Active: 2015

Role: Lead developer

Open edX Content Libraries

I led the engineering design and implementation of the new "Content Libraries" feature of the Open edX platform. An OpenCraft project.

Active: 2015

Role: Lead developer

Agents of Nature

Place-based educational adventure game for kids that can only be played in parks.

Active: 2011 - 2014

Role: Lead developer

Explore150 App

Location-based app to connect with Canadian historic and cultural sites, as part of Canada's sesquicentennial celebrations.

Active: 2013 - 2014

Role: Lead developer

OGO Website

I developed and maintained the website for the OGO Car Share Co-op.

Active: 2013 - 2018

Role: Sole developer

Disseminate

An application for displaying synchronized multimedia presentation on a group of iPads via an ad-hoc Bluetooth or Wi-Fi mesh network.

Active: 2014

Role: Sole developer

Quotations Collection

A collection of my favourite quotations.

Active: 2006 - present

s3eMapView

An extension for the Marmalade Mobile Game SDK that implements native geographical map support on iOS and Android.

Active: 2012 - 2013

Role: Sole developer

astrodendro

A Python package for computation and analysis of astronomical data using dendrograms.

Active: 2011 - 2012

Role: Major contributor

Quantified Comparison of Molecular Cloud Structure

My undergraduate thesis: using "dendrograms" to produce a quantified difference score between two data sets representing molecular clouds. Also led to this paper.

Active: 2011 - 2012

astrocube

Python package for loading and viewing radio astronomy data cubes.

Active: 2011 - 2012

Role: Sole developer

Differential Cryptanalysis Example

An Excel workbook to help understand and teach differential cryptanalysis. Includes code for a working attack.

Active: 2011

Role: Author

Get to Know Website

This non-profit program's complex website supports their numerous initiatives. I developed the site with PHP for several years and later re-wrote it using Django.

Active: 2008 - 2014

Role: Lead developer

Morningstar Office

I designed and spec'd Morningstar Interactive's unique eco-friendly Kelowna office space, which was featured in Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Systems 2013/14 catalogue.

Active: 2010

Nexus

Custom time tracking, payroll, and password management software used at Morningstar Interactive.

Active: 2009 - 2014

Role: Sole developer

Scholarium

Scholarium was a Facebook app that let university students share their timetable, find classmates, and rate professors. It had a few thousand users, and according to random people, it was one of the best Facebook apps for students. Sadly, I can't find a screenshot.

Active: 2006 - 2008

Role: Sole developer

Tom Mah Karate

I designed, developed, and maintained the website for Tom Mah School of Karate and the Kelowna Traditional Martial Arts & Fitness Centre, which included a custom-built CMS, photo gallery, and other apps written from scratch.

Active: 2001 - 2007

Role: Sole developer & designer

KDE User Account Control Module

One of my first open-source projects - a KDE control center module for viewing and changing basic information about your UNIX user account, such as full name, password, or the user avatar seen in kdm.

Active: 2003

Role: Author of the first version