A libpurple plugin adapted to work in Adium, the Mac OS X instant messaging client. The purpose of the plugin is to coordinate with our local staff In Out Board, a virtual equivalent to regular office magnetic in out boards showing who is in the office and who is not. This makes the actual work of the plugin useless outside our small environment. However, the method of creating a plugin, the wrapper code for Adium and libpurple plugins, and the documentation here are all potentially useful.

An Implementation of a Twitter application built while offering an independent study course over the summer of 2009. The application is based on specifications from Stanford’s CS 193P course. The USM version of the course is in my courses section and is COS 497 - iPhone Application Programming.

A biorhythm is a hypothetical cycle in physiological, emotional, or intellectual well-being or prowess. “Bio” pertains to life and “rhythm” pertains to the flow with regular movement. Biorhythms theory has no more predictive power than chance and has been labeled a pseudo-science by skeptics. The equations for the curves are:

This article outlines plans for redesigning Stephen’s personal/work web site located at http://people.usm.maine.edu. Work began in the Spring of 2008 to develop needed static content with a view towards a more dynamic creation of index/listing pages and RSS content of updates.

A native iPhone calculator application. The interface is based on the distributed iPhone calculator application. The goal was to cplay around with iPhone development It is really a base to flesh out the basic functionality and a platform to build more on, if I have time. Available on Google Code.

An experimental Adobe Flash game that helps a skateboarding Shawn Houser avoid hitting his fast running sister Brianna. Keep your mouse inside the game area and use the left and right keys to move Shawn and avoid Brianna!

Network Operations Centers and Help Desks all over monitor their systems and networks with an open source product called Big Brother – the freely available version is now Hobbit. Here’s how to add a traffic light to indicate network status.