Jonathan Arkell's Portfolio

Development and Programming

Bunny Cyborg

A personal Arduino project to take the output of an EEG, and use it to control a pair of robotic bunny ears. The prototype is complete, and verison 1 is being worked on. My Mindwave Emacs package grew from this.

Pumpinator

A hardware envelope follower that sends out envelope values as Midi CC messages.

Emacs Projects

I've written a variety of Emacs Lisp files (plugins) for the Gnu Emacs editor. They range from simple and fun tools, to full modes that integrate with webservices.

Qute

The simple and Javascript Prototype OO library. The project is mothballed for now.

BunnyRegex

BunnyRegex is a wrapper around PHPs Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. It was developed to make writing, refactoring and maintaining regular expressions a lot easier. It was featured on the PHP Developer Network.

Here's a great little regex library for PHP that uses a dead-simple syntax that someone should have thought of way, way before this.

Deane Barker at Gadgetopia in the blog entry Bunny Regex

Kilns

Kilns is a programming language based on the kell calculus. In addition to managed memory, it also has managed concurrency and managed networking. It is a "higher-order" distributed programming language, which means that running processes can be paused and resumed, or even moved between machines. I helped Greg with testing the langauge.

Contributions to other open source projects

swank-js

A swank backend and slime frontend for emacs to connect to either a browsers Javascript instance, or a Node.js instance.

Serendipity Freetag Plugin

The Freetag plugin is an add on to the Serendipity Blogging system that allows Blog author to add tags to their blog entry. It also builds a tag cloud for the user, and allows them to manage their tags.

That is just so much awesome work. It is how I loved to see the freetag plugin evolve into, you leveraged it a lot. OpenSource rocks!!!

Garvin Hicking, Serendipity Project Lead

DokuWiki Templater Plugin

The Templater plugin is an add on to the DokuWiki project. It allows authors to set up a specialized WikiPage as a 'template' that you can include in other wiki pages.

Websites and Web Applications