These pages are an attempt to shake off the bit-mould from the many software projects I have started, and mostly not finished over the years. Some of this stuff is very usable, some of it needs work.
I also hope to document some of the more interesting projects I've undertaken.
In additional to that it is an aide-mémoire to little bits of problem solving I frequently encounter day to day.
The Source code section provides downloadable source code to some of the software projects here. Where available binaries are also provided. A lot of projects I have coded over the years have been written in Borland Delphi, mainly because that is what I started using 20 years ago.
From Tom Merritt's Chronology of Tech History
- On this day in 1886 - Karl Benz drove his Patent Motorwagen on Mannheims Ringstrae, reaching a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph) powered by a 0.75-hp one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine. It was the first public drive of what is considered the first purpose-built automobile.
- On this day in 1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry died of lung cancer. She was a pioneering game designer most famous for creating the multiplayer game M.U.L.E. in 1983.
- On this day in 1999 - At the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, Billy Mitchell became the first person ever to achieve a perfect score on Pac-Man.