I’ve been quiet lately mostly because I’ve been working on a lot of different projects and generally enjoying the summertime. In the interests of transparency and keeping up to date here are some things I’ve been working on:

Javascript Mandelbrot generator using canvas
When I was little and first learning how to program in QBasic, one of the first things I made was a Mandelbrot set generator called the Mandelbrot Window. A few weeks ago I decided to revisit it using a new language and environment. I reimplemented it in Javascript using the HTML 5 canvas element. It was a great learning experience and I encourage any curious developer to build it in their language of choice. It’s a simple algorithm with plenty of reference implementations and offers lots of opportunity for expansion. This requires one of the latest browsers to run. Take note of the set generation time in each browser, some interesting numbers there.

Das Wiener
Sarah and I always wondered what our dog did when we were out of the house. What started as a simple idea of setting up a webcam to watch his cage kinda’ got out of hand and has turned into daswiener.com. I built it for Sarah and I, but others are enjoying it as well so that’s pretty cool.

I’ve also been tinkering with a shared grocery list application and an automatically synced notepad widget for OS X. And I’m learning Python. Woot.

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