Taffer's Realm

Stuff that's here:

• my standard set of bookmarks (out of date, of course)
• my resumé
• my Mac OS X programs
• my Widgets for things like the Yahoo! Widget Engine (aka Konfabulator), Dashboard and Google Desktop
• my list of daily-visit URLs (rather out of date, naturally)

Here is Taffer's Realm.

Writing

I'm taking part in Nation Novel Writing Month, 2007 because I really should write more. When I'm done, I'll post the chapters here one per week… not that I expect anyone to read it, but you never know.

Short Stories

• Alex the Dragon and the King of Cats - Released Nov. 3, 2007
• The Offering Fields - Introduction - Released Nov. 22, 2007

Novels

• Office Ninja - Coming in December 2007!

Computer Stuff

Besides my day-job stuff, I've done a bit of freelance work.

UNIX Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide for PeachPit Press.

Various articles for IBM's developerWorks portal:

• Introduction to XForms (series): Part 1: The new Web standard for forms, Part 2: Forms, models, controls, and submission actions, Part 3: Using actions and events
• Build Apache Geronimo applications using JavaServer Faces (tutorial series): Part 1: Use Eclipse and Apache MyFaces Core to build a basic application, Part 2: Using Tomahawk with JavaServer Faces, Part 4: Extend JSF with Apache Trinidad components, Part 5: Integrating your JSF application with Spring
• Errors: errno in UNIX programs
• Text processing with UNIX
• How to use Subversion with Eclipse
• Config file processing with LibXML2 (I didn't write this one, although I did create the outline/proposal.)
• Basic UNIX filesystem operations
• Command-line processing with getopt()
• Make UNIX work with Windows XP and Mac OS X
• Using ReiserFS with Linux
• Build UNIX software with Eclipse
• Network services: Legacy design versus threaded design