About NeverFriday

About me, about the site

About Me

I am a student of the world, trying to learn more about writing and programming.

Education

I have attended the Software Development program at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada for the last few years. I have also been to Ryerson for introductory Computer Science courses as well as English Literature courses.

In the last year I have withdrawn from college and am attempting to go for more computer science-related courses. In the last year I have looked at the Scheme, Common Lisp, Smalltalk, Factor/Forth programming languages. While I may not be the greatest at using them, I at least understand enough of them all to get something useful written.

Side Projects

Public

Some public projects:

  • EventCal
  • FOAFCreator
  • Sandals
Read more about them on the front page.

Private

I have also worked on a few private projects. One of them was a Python-based prototype for a technical writing class. We had to write up a report estimating the costs and development time and possible development choices for a scheduling system. I wrote up a prototype and did the Steve Jobs "One More Thing..." thing at the end of our presentation. The prototype was running live from my house server and functioned well enough for our purposes.

EventCal was actually born out of that project!

I also tried to write a more fully-featured todo list and calendar web application using that prototype as a base. This went well enough when I showed it to the Hacker News users though there were a few odd bugs. The project, called jaCal, was left unfinished. There are enough todo lists and calendars on the web, after all.

Older Things

Some older things I have worked on include:

  • GNUFilter, an automatic sorting program for your desktop files
    Written in C/C++ by myself
  • KonSort, the Qt3-based front-end for GNUFilter
    Written in C++ using Qt3
  • xParse, an XML parser written in C/C++
    I wrote it up myself, the code is ugly, but it worked for my purposes.
  • GNUSki, a clone of the old game SkiFree written in C/C++ using NCurses
    Again, I wrote all the code for this and it worked partially (ASCII collision detection was too much for me to handle)
  • CrissCross, a C++ utility library
    I didn't do much coding, I did more testing for compatibility issues with Mac OS X