Active Projects

Software that is either currently under active development or that are occasionally maintained. Most of these are "maintained", not active projects.

A small COM for use with TCPClient and UDPClient that does network discovery (i.e., tells you what computers are "out there").

See the NetworkTopology homepage for details.

This Java language ColdFusion extension tag (that is, a CFX) for Macromedia ColdFusionMX, CFX_AudioInfoMX, will scan either a single file or an entire folder, looking for audio files of mp3, wav, au and midi format. From these files it will gather up all manner of information such as song title, author, compression type, bitrate, song length, etc. Works with all Java versions of ColdFusionMX.

The source code to this program is included as open source. It has been tested under Windows only at the moment. If you have compiled and used it on other platforms please feel free to drop a note.

The source code to this program is included as open source. It has been tested under Windows only at the moment. If you have compiled and used it on other platforms please feel free to drop a note.

With complete Java source code and classes.

See the CFX_AudioInfoMX homepage for details.

This Java language ColdFusion extension tag (that is, a CFX) for Macromedia ColdFusionMX, CFX_ImageInfoMX, has one simple purpose: It returns information such as width, height, colors, comments, compression type, dpi, frames, etc about graphic files. The file formats it handles include TGA, GIF*, JPG, PNG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, and PSD. Works with all Java versions of ColdFusionMX.

You can either ask it to return information about a single file or about all (known graphic) files in a specified folder. When using the folder option you can also specify a filter mask.

The source code to this program is included as open source. It has been tested under Windows only at the moment. If you have compiled and used it on other platforms please feel free to drop a note.

With complete Java source code and classes.

See the CFX_ImageInfoMX homepage for details.

An application software installer/uninstaller using a custom C++ port of zlib. 32-bit Windows. Requires MS Visual Studio.

See the ZInstaller homepage for details.

For Windows. Does graphic nBody sim with rigid solid body collisions.

See the nBodySim homepage for details.

A Perceptron is the most basic of all "learning" network components for AI (Artificial Intelligence). This is the source to a small C++ application that runs NOT, OR, etc logics against a single perceptron and teaches it to understand boolean logics.

See the Perceptron Simulation homepage for details.

PathFinder2D is a demonstration or software tutorial of the A* (or A-Star), Dijkstra and BFS (Breath-First) path-finding algorithms. These well-known path-finding algorithms are what most computer games use to help plot out the path that AI players (the non-human ones) will use to get around obstacles. This small C++ application was an experiment I worked on for a couple hours one day to play around with the algorithm. The complete source code is included.

See the PathFinder2D homepage for details.

A graphics experiment in A-Worlds one weekend when the mood possessed me. Watch A-Life give birth, go to war, steal and other things A-Lifes love to do.

Fun for AI folks and young/beginner game designers to stare at.

Free. Open-source C++. Windows NT/98/ME/2000/XP. Included pre-compiled AMOS.EXE.

See the A-MOS homepage for details.

A COM object usable by ColdFusion, ASP, PHP4, etc that allows you to talk to any UDP server including multiplayer games such as Quake, Half-Life, Unreal, etc.

Free. Open-source C++.

See the UDPClient homepage for details.

A COM object usable by ColdFusion, ASP, PHP4, etc that allows you to talk to any TCP server including SMTP, POP3, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, telnet, etc.

Free. Open-source C++.

See the TCPClient homepage for details.

Former commercial software is now released as open-source freeware.

The Intranet/Hosting Toolkit (or IHTK) currently includes several CFX tags (DLL files) including CFX_Users for NT users, CFX_Groups for local and domain groups, CFX_Shares for handling network shares, CFX_Permissions for managing network file permissions, CFX_Services, CFX_IIS for creating/managing IIS4/5 ftp and web sites and the ever-useful CFX_NetworkTopology for figuring out what's in your network.

In whole, these tags are meant to be analogues to the Windows GUI tools such as "User Manager for Domains", the IIS MMC/ICM, the Services dialog box of the Control Panel, as well as the Network Neighbor (shares, printers, mapped network drives, etc). The creation/listing/deletion/searching of NTFS permissions (also known as ACLs) is also supported.

See the IHTK homepage for details.

A high-performance clone of CF4.5's CFEXECUTE function written in C++. Includes a VARIABLE parameter to output results directly to a cf variable.

With complete c/c++ source code.

See the CFX_Execute homepage for details.

This extension tag for Macromedia ColdFusion, CFX_ImageInfo, has one simple purpose: It returns information such as width, height, colors, comments, compression type, dpi, frames, etc about graphic files. The file formats it handles include TGA, GIF*, JPG, PNG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, and PSD. Works with ColdFusion version 3.1 and up.

You can either ask it to return information about a single file or about all (known graphic) files in a specified folder. When using the folder option you can also specify a filter mask.

With complete c/c++ source code.

See the CFX_ImageInfo homepage for details.