Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

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About Me

I'm a software developer and consultant in San Francisco.

Recently, I've been developing web apps in Ruby (both Rails and Rack) with lots of Javascript. I've also been developing mobile apps for both Palm WebOS and Android.

I spent a number of years writing web apps in Java, and I've also done a few random apps such as Blackberry, Flex/AIR/Actionscript, and (long ago) C and C++ Mac and Unix apps.

There's a little more about me on my LinkedIn profile, and a few more blog articles over at Pivotal Labs.

Recent Personal Project: JS Dev Tools

JS Dev Tools (www.jsdevtools.com) contains a bunch of links to useful libraries and tools for Javascript developers. See related articles.

Recent Personal Project: Wshlst

Wshlst (www.wshlst.com) is a group-oriented wish list website that I created for my family, partly because no such site existed, and partly because I wanted to write a website completely in Javascript (no HTML, no CSS). It lets you create and share wish lists, and lets you add and discuss items on other peoples' lists (secretly, if you like). See related articles.

Recent Personal Project: BoardsConsult/RotationTracker

BoardsConsult (www.boardsconsult.com) and RotationTracker (www.rotationtracker.com) are a pair of websites that I created with an M.D./Ph.D. friend of mine. BoardsConsult is designed to help medical residents prepare for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, and RotationTracker is for helping medical schools evaluate and track the progress of the residents in their programs. Unfortunately, we underestimated the amount of work involved in creating a set of high-quality exam review questions. An open demo will be available soon, after I move the sites to a new server.

Looking For A Job?

I moderate a few completely free jobs mailing lists with RSS feeds and zero spam: XP jobs, Rails jobs and Mac development jobs. Also, my pals at Pivotal Labs often have agile (hard-core agile) Rails and Java job openings.

Looking For Cheap Web Hosting?

I've been using DreamHost's shared hosting and domain registration for years and I've been very happy with them. They offer tons of disk space and bandwidth and lots of great features.