Welcome!

Welcome to my homepage! To contact me about any of my projects (or whatever), email me at (the four-letter version of my first name) DOT stoll AT gmail DOT com. I do freelance work occasionally.

My projects

I like to work on projects in my spare time. Key to languages used:


C++	Flex	Haskell	JavaScript	PHP	Python	Ruby	SQL

Katrina Information Map - Jonathan Mendez and I worked on www.scipionus.com, which had a map where people could post information about Hurricane Katrina. It got some media attention. (BBC, Wired, Forbes, New York Times) I'm hosting a backup copy with the original data.
Released 16-Sep-2005
Pretty Pictures from Genetic Algorithms - Create and breed together pretty pictures.
Released 17-Jul-2007
LiveJournal Backup - A way to backup your LiveJournal. See my backed-up journal (public posts only). Import my certificate to avoid the dialog box.
Released 14-Jan-2007
iTunes Rating Analysis - Have an iPod? Use iTunes to manage your music? Get an analysis of your favorite albums and bands!
Released 18-Nov-2007
Congress Votes - A way of scoring US Representatives on their roll-call votes. My first project in Haskell!
Released 22-Apr-2007
Clue Solver - Enter information from the game Clue and the solver will deduce information and do simulations to show where the cards likely are.
Released 28-Oct-2007
Palm to Google Calendar - An interface to copy a Palm datebook to a Google Calendar, which is written mostly in Ruby. Due to the private nature of calendar data, this section is secure - you can import my certificate if you trust me to verify websites, or you can simply accept the dialog box when you click on the secure part.
Released 16-Aug-2006
Interactive Maps - My Google map, done with the Google maps API. I also did a Yahoo! map, based on the Yahoo! maps API.
Released 3-Apr-2006
Baseball Statistics - My baseball statistic calculators. There you can find baseball win expectancy finder - you plug in the game situation and it will tell you what percentage of games that had that situation led to a win. You can also graph the running win expectancy throughout a whole baseball game. Or, you can find the expected number of runs per inning from a given situation.
Released 11-Jun-2006
World of Warcraft projects:
- Auctioneer Lookup - A service to look up auction house prices in World of Warcraft. This relies on my own data gathered from the Auctioneer mod.
  Released 28-Feb-2007
- WoW Frost Mage DPS - A DPS calculator for Frost Mages. Looks up data from the Armory.
  Released 2-Oct-2007
- WoW Armory Info - A table of guild information about the World of Warcraft guild I'm in.
  Released 15-Mar-2007
- Guild Info Mod - An older table of guild information about the World of Warcraft guild I used to be in. Here's information about installing the mod and service that submits the info to the table.
  Released 14-Feb-2006
Netflix Prize - My code for competing in the Netflix Prize.
Released 6-Nov-2006
iTunes Analysis - An analysis of my iTunes collection.
Released 5-Oct-2005
Float to Hex - A floating-point to hex converter.
Released 8-Apr-2006
LJ Blog Adapter - A little utility to read posts from a private RSS feed and post them to LiveJournal.
Released 21-Mar-2007
TODO list - A TODO list using AJAX. The list is roughly based on the principles of Getting Things Done(GTD).
Released 8-Feb-2006
Hat Problem Strategies - Analysis of how to choose a good strategy for a hat problem, using techniques in Artificial Intelligence.
Released 20-May-2007
Super Mario Bros. (board game) Solver - Quick script to find the probability of winning the Super Mario Bros. board game on the first turn.
Released 24-Jan-2008
Farkle Probabilities - A quick MathML experiment to show some Farkle probabilities - I didn't get very far before realizing how difficult hand-coding MathML is.
Released 10-Apr-2006

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