Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

Recent Personal Projects

Palbum is a free iPad app that lets you easily flip through the photos that your Facebook friends have shared with you.

Imageproxy is an open-source image manipulation web proxy which makes image conversions really simple.

Expectacular is the beginnings of an Objective-C matcher library. I haven't done any Objective-C in a while, so this project has stagnated a bit.

SeleniumQuery is a tiny library that makes Selenium testing in Ruby a little easier by helping you build a jQuery string that can be executed in the browser during a test. The goal is to let you create selectors in jQuery rather than using Selenium's limited built-in CSS or XPath selectors.

Wshlst 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).

No-Longer-Active Personal Projects

Lightspun was an image processing web service I created. Any website that needs to modify images (creating thumbnails for example) could get set up in a just a couple minutes just by modifying the img tags in their HTML. It could also be called from curl, or any programming language that can make HTTP requests. It was also useful for mobile applications because images can be shrunk or otherwise modified before being downloaded to the device. It lives on now as Imageproxy.

JS Dev Tools contains a bunch of links to useful libraries and tools for Javascript developers. It is soon to be replaced by something much awesomer.

BoardsConsult and RotationTracker were a pair of websites that I created with an M.D./Ph.D. friend of mine. BoardsConsult was designed to help medical residents prepare for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, and RotationTracker was for helping medical schools evaluate and track the progress of the residents in their programs.