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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 to meet his own needs. However, he writes code generically such that following programmers can readily apply his techniques to their own unique applications.

Not shown here are William's major, proprietary projects. These include topics like a generally useful Visual FoxPro application framework, various video game projects (usually derivatives of the old Atari 2600 BreakOut! title), a major real estate listing and office management application, and myriad minor Linux administration routines.

On the Web:

• 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 excersize. He's been using it ever since to track time spent on his myriad projects.
• 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.

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.

For Study:

• HTTP Standard Excersizes (samples of robust HTML, XHTML, and CSS files that fully conform to respective W3C standards)
  To keep himself updated on the constantly evolving web page best-practices, William maintains a core set of sample files that conform strictly to W3C standards for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0/1.1, and CSS 1/2. His sample files also follow the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, producing highly accessible content.