Random Stuff


Personal Projects

  • My personal website (thinkthompson.com)
    You are here. I host this website from a linux server I run out of my house (currently my flavor of choice is Fedora Core 8).
  • Administration/Content Management System (admin.thinkthompson.com)
    A user administration tool as well as a content manager for several pages within thinkthompson.com. Used php, a MySQL database, and SSL (https) to ensure security.
  • Dynamically Generated Newsletter (password required)
    This dynamically generated newsletter is controlled by the above admin site.
  • Webmail for thinkthompson.com
    The webserver I'm running/administering doubles as a mail and file server. I am currently using Squirrelmail, which is a great open source webmail solution. (I also installed and configured a Captcha that uses the ImageMagick package)
  • Book of Mormon Reading Helper
    This is a little tool I made to help keep track of Book of Mormon reading progess. It's an applet I wrote in Java that takes your current place, your start date, and your goal date as parameters and calculates how many chapters or pages per day you need to read in order to accomplish your goal. (Note: I wrote this as a totally green programmer, so be gentle)
  • Time Force 1.2
    This is a tool I wrote for keeping track of punches when using the famous Time Force program. This applet was also written in java. Also, there is a more detailed description on the project's page. (I wrote this around the same time I created teh BoM reading helper applet)

Random Old Personal Projects

  • Web Color Tester
    This is a simple but handy tool to test rgb color values.
  • PNG Test
    This is a page I wrote trying to figure out how to get PNG transparency to work in both Firefox and Internet Explorer 5.5. I have since figured out how to do it correctly, but have never gotten around to fixing this old page.
  • Stella
    This is a simple image gallery of the first car I owned that I wrote when I was first experimenting with JavaScript. It's quite simple and very outdated, but I just can't bring myself to delete it.