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Rollfor.it – A social RPG dice-roller

By admin on January 25, 2011 | Category: Projects,slideshow | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off

A friend and I were talking about web application that we’d find useful but didn’t think existed, and we came up with Rollfor.it. The idea was that we’d like to be able to play table-top RPGs with our distant friends, but two barriers prevented this. We needed to be able to see each other’s dice rolls and we needed to be able to move tokens on a shared gameboard.

We divided up the work. My task (the easier one, I think) was to develop the dice rolling component.

I think it works well as a stand-alone application, as well.

You can try out Rollfor.it for yourself.

Aleph Studios’ Invoice Access System

By admin on January 25, 2011 | Category: Projects,slideshow | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off

Business picked up in 2011, and by the end of the year, my old invoice tracking system (an Excel spreadsheet) wasn’t keeping up. So for the new year, I built a simple web-based invoice tracking system.

Each client gets a unique username and password. Once logged in, they can view paid and unpaid invoices, and even easily pay an outstanding invoice via Paypal.

I’ll add more details later.

Minifi.de – A URL shortening service

By admin on April 7, 2009 | Category: Projects,slideshow | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments

Without too much trouble, I put together yet another URL shortening service: Minifi.de (‘minified’, in the jargon). It does pretty much the same thing as tinyurl.com, bit.ly and is.gd – you enter a long URL and it returns a shorter one. I’m about half way done with the API (it works, so long as the URL valid), so if anyone knows of any clients that allow the user to specify a shortening service, I’d like to test that functionality.

At some point, I would like to make it account-based, so that you can track usage statistics and such, but that will only happen after I’m confident that the thing will survive in the wild.

So, feel free to give it a whirl, but know that it’s still in development and that I’ll probably have to wipe the database a few more times before I get it just right.

A little personal aside: my wife doesn’t believe in IM, so when we’re both on our computers and she finds a site she wants me to look at, instead of IM’ing me a link, she’ll shorten it and then shout the code at me, 2L or AF or whatever.

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