Categotry Archives: Portfolio

WhisperFollow

WhisperFollow is a plugin for wordpress that enables tumblr like social blogging across the web by aggregating RSS and allowing reblogging with comments . I aim to expand the plugin to work as an ostatus client when combined with Ostatus For WordPress. It does create a new post category for “whispers” into which all reblogs will be posted though one… (more…)

Infinite Ski Run

machinespirit.net/ace/infiniteski/InfiniteSkiRun.zip A group assignment for the uni topic “IT Project”, Infinite Ski Run was built by Paul Brokensha, Trevor Brokensha, Chris Norman, Daniel Pearson, Mark Wandner and myself to be incorporated into the ‘Rehabilitation Gaming’ project by Mr David Hobbs, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Flinders University. The project was to be coded in Microsoft’s XNA game studio and utilize the Xbox controller (also works with keyboard) so that it… (more…)

Longview Lodge

LongviewLodge.com.au Although I don’t feel a strong connection with this particular piece it’s a pretty good example of my professional work for small business. Working with Emily (blackwoolholiday.com) was good fun and despite a bit of nasty scope creep I think the end result is clean and polished.

Dobbybot

Dobby is a chatbot that runs on an AIML engine with a python wrapper layer with modular addons for things like managing reputations and wolfram alpha lookups. He usually hangs out in #machinespirit on irc.foonetic.net (webchat here) responding to lines prefaced with “dobby, …” but also responds to xmpp (dobbybot@jabber.org) and twitter (@dobbybot). He also acts as deity in residence… (more…)

Animal Altercation

machinespirit.net/ace/animal/animal.php This project was a bit more fun from a technical standpoint. Developed for a Web Systems topic at uni our applications had to be web based and use an xml backend. I would have preferred to use a database backend for this if I were doing it myself I’m still proud of the end result.

Rent-A-Ninja

machinespirit.net/ace/rentaninja I built this in high school as an English assignment in different textual forms (I created one miniature website and one multimedia poetry piece). It’s not sophisticated by any means but I am proud of the minimalist and professional design for such a silly topic.