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William's Projects

William is an inventor and a problem solver. His tool is the programmable computer. All projects on this and subsequent pages were written by William in the course of employment, volunteer work, or to meet his own personal interest in expanding his programming capabilities and keeping his skills sharp. He writes code generically such that following programmers can readily apply his techniques to their own unique applications. So, have a look and see what you might learn!

Not shown here are William's major, proprietary projects and those developed for previous employers.

On the Web:

• KimballStuff.COM (this very web-site)
  Designed specifically for very low bandwith consumption, this web-site is a prime example of a standards-compliant, accessible, cross-browser compatible, full-bleed (print), minimum footprint web presence.
• Wolves of Mibu - Trollbane Guild (a World of Warcraft guild web-site)
  William is the guild master of the Wolves of Mibu guild on the Trollbane realm game server. He used a fan-kit as the basis and wrapper for this site. It contains some very useful membership perk and coordination utilities, but they are accessible only to active guild members and officers.
• Inter-Guild Link (a World of Warcraft game client AddOn)
  As an excuse to learn the Lua programming language and to bring his real-life friends closer together in the virtual World of Warcraft environment, William designed and authored this AddOn.
• popAuth3 (a mail gateway server hardening daemon with optional POP- before-SMTP support)
  William rewrote an antiquated POP-before-SMTP project for two reasons. First, he needed POP-before-SMTP at the time so he could send e-mail through his home network from remote locations. Second, he needed an excuse to learn Perl. He says Perl is ... interesting. Even though his network operation has grown well beyond POP-before-SMTP, he still uses popAuth3. Read details on the site to find out why. Side Note: The popAuth3 site is itself a project by William. It represents a fully standards-compliant web site with 3 levels of W3C validation.
• Team Sol International (an international car enthusiast club that focuses on the former Honda del Sol, based in the U.S.A.)
  William adopted webmaster duties for this web site in 2001 to give it a massive facelift, add features, and automate membership management. The web site went through three iterations; from simple HTML; to Microsoft ASP/JScript with a Microsoft Visual FoxPro back-end; to a PHP5/MySQL version. William ultimately became Vice-President of this club before retiring in 2006 after the loss of his own Honda del Sol.
• phpTimeSheet (a time tracking application)
  William wrote this time tracking application in order to have an excuse to learn PHP. He says it worked and was a good exercise. He's been using it ever since to track time spent on his myriad projects.
• Lone Wolf Custom Slab Company (a business portfolio)
  William is the webmaster for this business start-up. He is developing it using the most strict W3C standards while still meeting all design requirements of the business owner.

For Download:

• Miscellaneous *NIX scripts (shell scripts, perl scripts, etc. for Linux/Unix)
  William shares the best of his efforts for the benefit of others. Enjoy the fruits of his labor.