Greetings!

Welcome to the Cool Programs home page. Here, you will find all kinds of programs I've written or helped with which will entertain and instruct you. They demonstrate various object-oriented techniques and languages, while never losing the element of fun.

Standalone Applications I've Written

BSBingo^TM is written for PalmOS-based devices. It is a fun game sarcastically dubbed as a "corporate productivity tool" which allows you to stay awake during otherwise-boring corporate meetings. BSBingo received five cows (highest rating) from TUCOWS.

BYOBingo^TM is written for Windows CE devices and Win32 platforms. It is essentially the same as BSBingo. BYOBingo received a rave review in a popular magazine column.

Num-Num^TM spells numbers for you like (38 -> "thirty eight") in many languages. It is a boon to people living in a foreign country or learning a foreign language. What's more, the rules for spelling a number are external to the program! Hackers can learn this language and submit rules for other languages. Versions for Win32, WinCE, PalmOS and Java 1.1!

The Triangle Puzzle is a fun, challenging, animated puzzle game with hints. Written in portable C++, versions are versions are available for Windows (95/98/NT/2000), Windows CE, PalmOS. A Java version is also available for Linux, etc.

ThisIsCool^TM Nim pits you against the computer with another challenging peg game written in both Java and C#. 

Out of Mind is a Mastermind™ clone written using JScript and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0+ DHTML model.

Save That Calendar!^TM lets you save your calendar, the trees and the world by computing the next year that you can reuse your calendar. (For example, your 2001 calendar can be reused in 2007.)

Web Album provides a convenient means of browsing pictures and other resources you store online. You can browse by year and month as well as do simple searches on picture names.

The Dancing ThisIsCool Demo is written in Java (JDK 1.0.2). It is the dancing man you saw on the home page.

Web Applications I've Written

Check out some cool, online web applications I've written at thisiscool.org!

Programs I've Helped With

GCC/GCJ for MingW is a temporary holding spot for my build of a CVS snapshot of the GCC / GCJ. With it, you can compile Java programs into native Windows executables!

Fedora Core Floppy Installer allows bootstrapping the Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4 install from only floppy diskettes, without booting from a CD or temporarily copying stuff to your hard drive.

Mips2Java for Win32: If I told you that you could take sources for a C console application and convert them to 100% Pure Java code that can be hosted in an unsigned applet, would you believe me? Find out more here.

Waba For DOS is my port of Waba to protected-mode DOS! Go find your old 386 machines!

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