FAFStringScanner

A custom string scanner better suited to my parsing needs than NSScanner. It supports sequential scanning by character, token, and literal string match. It also handles reading balanced spans of text (that is, text enclosed in braces, brackets, quotes, and parenthesis). API is fairly stable, but more tests and documentation are needed. It operates on a 'cursor' mode, rather than 'insertion point', so the scan location always points to a character, rather than between characters.

FAFPHPSerializer

A class to translate to and from PHP-serialized simple objects, and corresponding Foundation objects. It is employed frequently in the program that I use to administer this site.

FAFOutlineView

A subclass replacement for NSOutlineView and NSTableView incorporating a different datasource methodology and common fixes and additions such as label colors and column spanning. I use it in nearly all of my applications.

FAFGraphiteWindow

FAFGraphiteWindow is part of my ongoing efforts to return to the visual interface of OS-9 which I miss terribly. It has a few quirks (not all behaviors of a standard window have been replicated) but it works on everything from ppc32/Leopard to x86_64 El Capitan. (Which surprised me).

ObjectiveApplescript

A development tool to aid in making AppleScript behave in a more object-oriented fashion and to provide a better run-time framework for simpler creation and more reliable operation of AppleScript scripts and applications.

I am not sure how usefull this project will be to anyone, but I can't resist doing it, even if it never gets used, since this is the most exciting of my projects.

Loozer

Loozer is intended as a replacement for Apple's Finder, implementing features long wanted by my dad and myself. It is still in the experimental stage.

FAF Legal DR-CM

An application to assist in the tracking of our legal documents and related information. A work in progress since December of 2009, this is the biggest and most important of my projects.

This is the successor to Applescript Studio based Doc Reg Simple (which was given the "simple" tag in anticipation of a re-worked edition), now written in Obj-C/Cocoa.

It is in full use with more than 800 documents and events are registered;

Though development of the predicessor Doc Reg Simple has ended, this was my largest Applescript application, and is responsponsible for prompting my efforts to develop a runtime applescript framework.

FederalAdamsFamily.com

This website is the fourth of my primary projects. I've had it for some (I think) seven years ... but it has gotten less development effort than my other primary projects ... mostly because I don't really enjoy web programming nearly so much as regular app development. (To me it feels so fragmented and disorganized). Nevertheless it is a necessity and so I put my best effort into it. This website is built from scratch using the LAMP stack with a few base-level tools and libraries - but definitely no existing Content-Management-System.

I have periodically explored the use of existing CMS systems such as Drupal and Wordpress, but always wind up concluding that due to the needs of this site (wide variation in content type, access control issues, etc) I would spend more effort taloring an exisisting system than starting from the ground up. Besides, I can't seem to help doing my own way. (For one thing the bloat of many systems provides me with at least one excuse for a custom solution)

BorkPad

Created by BorkWare, 2003, inspired by the Mac OS 9 NotePad.

Original BorkPad procured from Borkware, under a BSD license.

I liked this applet, so I brought it further along.

• Changed window type to FAFGraphiteWindow
• Added headline list, mimicking the behaviour of iOS notepad
• Added scroll-to-bottom preference control for that existing behaviour

Now available for download as modified.

FAF Book Registry

FAF Movie Registry

FAFFuelLogKeeper

A small app to keep fuel (gas) logs on our various vehicles. Once upon a time I used an Excel spreadsheet for this task, however a custom app can handle the data more inteligently. FAF Fuel Log Keeper keeps a fillup-to-fillup MPG calculation, attempts to autofill some values, and allows for interspacing of service event entries, and preliminary support for printable service history.

It is my first, and thus far only, NSDocument based app. It also demonstrates use of column-spanning with FAFOutlineView.

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Center Store Manager Assistant

Center Store Manager Assistant is a utility I use to aid me in my work on the night crew of a local grocery store.

Onan Control

We have a 5K genset which we use to charge a set of deep-cycle batteries. For several years we have been manually monitoring the pack voltage and turning the generator on and off accordingly.

Last month (6/2017) I finally realized a long time dream of automating the control of the generator. Ever since I heard of the Raspberry Pi single-board-computer (some two years ago) I have been wanting to appropriate one for the purpose of generator control. I was waylayed for a long time due (apart from lack of time) to the challenge of adding analog input to the Raspberry. (Not really a big deal but still streatching my skill set). Thankfully the popularity of the Pi resulted in production of an add-on board which allowed me to bypass the (for me) hardest part of the project - the electrical engineering - and focus on assembly and the sofware.

Now I have a python program on the Pi doing the actual monitor and control, and an ObjC application on my Mac providing 'remote' (over LAN) control of the (usually) headless Raspberry.

WaitingForLoginWindow hack

A fun but useless little hack to the startup progress bar

36 Hour Weather check (cmd. line scpt.)

I got tired of loading the whole weather.com page just to check the local weather forcast, so I made a little script that fetches the forcast page and extracts the info. I use curl to fetch the page (mobile verison) and python to parse it. The BeautifulSoup module (not mine) does the hard work. You will need to adjust the url to get your forecast.
The script is weather-36hr.sh, which calls the adjacent weather-36hr-.sh to process the data. I am sure someone could integrate the two, but this was the simplest for me.

dmg extracter (cmd. line scpt.)

At some popint in my travels I had downloaded a bunch of snippets of software (or clipart, I dont remember) all packed in tiny dmg files instead of zip as is usual for such small (e.g. 24K, 100K, ...) items. It got to be tedious to open the disk image, create a directory by that name, copy the files, unmount the image, so I scripted it.
I has been a long time since I used it so I dont remember if it handles absolute paths or, more likely, not, so cd to the dmg's directory first.

PowerPrefs

A small utility for the easy access of hidden application preferences.
This was one of my first apps, so it is pretty nearly useless. Since creating this, I have come across two other programs, made by others, in the same category, that are far more useful:
- TweakFreak, which has a zillion features, but is a little buggy (freaky?).
- TinkerTool, which comes in free and licensed forms, and is very easy to use and well featured. (and is now my favorite). It has one feature particlarly worth the while: "Accelerate animation when rolling out sheets" -- amazing: I wonder how much of my life I have wasted waiting for those sheets to roll up and down! I love it!

[ released | idle development | occasional use ]

Growler

A GUI wrapper for the growlnotify utility, for communicating between people on local machines, as if we didnt have iChat!.

[ not released | idle development | occasional use ]