Project Interests¶

As a programmer I love to experiment. Seriously, I'll start a plethora of interesting projects that never get completed but allow me to experiment with things I haven't tried, before I go and finish one boring project with nothing interesting in it. That being said, I do finish some projects, they usually just need a good balance of interesting things in the project, and some reason to complete it, like being a company project, or having a bunch of people who want it.

Here are some random ideas (hopefully a current up to date list) of some things I'd like to try out, and potentially complete if someone can provide me with the motivation I need to complete it. If you've got some information I could use, go ahead and contact me.

• Quality Comic/Manga Reader (Site?): I've had ideas for a good and usable comic/manga reader for awhile. Ideas on usability, catering to different devices and reading preferences, methods of tagging and organization, series organization, attributing authors, dealing with licenses, good upload interface ideas, potentially features for translating, interesting ways of automating the reader, and so on... Unfortunately of course my ideas for usability, use of standards, and catering to various devices, and some of my other ideas are incompatible with what a professional publisher obsessed with DRM would wand so I can't really attempt to get anyone in that area interested. Naturally I don't want to build something that would simply be used for scanalations and nearly nothing else, essentially doing nothing but supporting piracy I have no interest in supporting; So if you know of a collection of good Creative Commons licensed works (My have to quickly ask the authors of any NC stuff), authors of fanmade comics or manga that would like to publish stuff in a common reader, or webcomics in comic or manga format (ie: multipage works) who would too, then I'd love to have them brought to my attention.
• iPad Monaco: Right now I believe the monaco skin which is being used on the Dragon Ball Encyclopedia will not work as well as it should on an iPad (the navigation and user "more" menu are probably broken) I'd love to try making them work if people wanted it fixed... course, I don't have an iPad, ;) so if someone feels up to donating an iPad to me, I'll have no objection. To be honest, besides dev stuff I have no real use for an iPad, so I won't be buying one for myself.
• Mobile MediaWiki: I know Wikimedia has a mobile site, but I don't quite fancy running an additional ruby app as a frontend to another system, which is in php. I would however love experimenting with making an extension or built-in improvements to MediaWiki to make MediaWiki on it's own support most of what Wikimedia's mobile site can do.
• MediaWiki Hosting: I'm experienced with MediaWiki, I've developed it for quite some time, I do plenty of small-scale hosting of wiki, I've also got a lot of knowledge of how larger setups like Wikimedia and Wikia are setup... I'd love to bring that stuff together, that knowledge of how to handle higher-traffic installs of MediaWiki is sitting wasted and I've love to experiment and make use of it. I've already convinced my boss to move into MediaWiki stuff, of course now I still need a variety of existing higher-traffic wiki that would like to switch from paying for whatever vps or shared hosting they have over to paying Redwerks to do the hosting instead. And ideally more than one, so that the cost of running multiple servers from the start doesn't need to be put on a single group.