The Danosphere.

Yesterday I was inspired after reading this post on techcrunch. So inspired in fact, that I dropped all dev on my current project (http://snipt.org) and began hacking away at a new one, a tool that would allow you to export your Facebook data. Less than 24hrs later, its done.

FacebookExport.com is a simple tool that exports the majority of your Facebook data to an XML file. My hope is that other sites will create parsers that allow you to import the data into other services like wordpress, posterous, flickr, etc. I’m calling the format “FBE”, short for “FaceBook Export”. I’m not sure how long the tool will be live so hurry and reclaim your data while you still can!

Here is a small sample of  my personal profile exported, as you can see by the scrollbar on the right, there is a TON of data not shown in this image, but its all there in the export file.

That’s all for now, more later!

Snipt.org is a nifty little tool for developers / everyone. It’s like twitpic but for code and long text. Punch in some code or a long paragraph, select the language type (“text” for long text), and then snip it! Snipt will give you a short URL to share your content with people via twitter.

Here’s my little snipt for you: http://snipt.org/63

This is a quick animation I developed for a class I’m taking this quarter “Intro. to Digital Animation”. The class deals primarily with adobe Adobe After Effects. I’ve use Adobe Premiere and Apple video products before so After Effects wasn’t entirely foreign to me but definitely has some unique features.

This is supposed to be a “slate” or something that’s used to brand our future pieces. I really liked the ability to use 3d and the camera so this piece makes use of those features.

Responsibilities: All Video Design / Motion / Sound

I recently took a course in Rich Internet Application development which focused on the snazzy new Adobe Flex 2 (now Flex 3) platform. This was an amazing course because Flex is being hyped up as the next big thing in RIA development because it runs in the highly pervasive Flash Player plugin (booyah silverlight!). The structure for the course was a rigorous 10week development session in which we would conceive, design, and develop a Flex application and integrate it with some type of stateful data storage.

As usual I wanted to develop something useful, and something that would allow me to integrate Flex with a technology that would be used in the real world- so I opted to integrate it with PHP and MYSQL. Even though this part of it wasn’t required, I felt it really made the experience that much more useful.

Check it out: Flex Course Manager

Responsibilities: All design, development, and backend

When we were assigned to develop a widget for one my courses using the Yahoo Widget Engine, I wanted to create something I would actually use. Honda-Tech.com is a forum I like to visit when I need information on my car or when I need to find good deals on used car parts. Naturally this leads me to checking the forums several times a day. Opening a browser and clicking a bunch of links to view topics isn’t hard, but I think I can make it easier.So I developed this Yahoo Widget which works using RSS feeds that Honda-Tech publishes. The widget allows you to browse all the forums from one central location, as well as see the latest posts in each forum. Additionally it automagically updates every 3min to always keep you on top of things.

Check it out: Honda-Tech Yahoo Widget

Responsibilities: All design, development, and backend

In a nutshell Decision Lens Web Suite is a web-enabled version of desktop software that is also offered through Decision Lens.

The application is pretty cool, it allows real-time collaborative decision making from remote locations while avoiding the ominous “group think” dilemma by using AHP (Analytical Heirarchy Process) to weight the priorities of the users involved in the decision, as well as the group overall. Its pretty cool stuff and has many applications.

The web version i was responsible for is written primarily in web-based platform which utilizes realtime connections to provide users with a collaborative and engaging decision making process. Because the application is web-based it is accessible from almost any computer on earth with an internet connection. Exciting stuff!

Check it out: Decision Lens Web Suite

Responsibilities: All flash development, flash middleware development, UI development, and XHTML development