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TorontoWiFiMap.com Launched!

June 27, 2010

After working on this project for a couple weeks I have decided to make it public. TorontoWiFiMap.com allows you to find the closest unencrypted WiFi hotspot from your position in the downtown Toronto area.

Moved All Source Code to GitHub

June 17, 2010

All of my open source code from Google Code has been moved to GitHub. GitHub seems to offer a much better interface for small projects from a single developer. I have updated all the links on the project pages to reflect this update. Fisher Innovation on GitHub.

FI-ApartmentBot Source Code Open Sourced

January 23, 2010

I have started development on a small web controlled robot. Source code is committed on GitHub & more details on the project can be found on the FI-ApartmentBot project page.

Pylot Testing Blog Post

November 5, 2009

I wrote a short blog post on FiftyOneReasons.com about the new web front end I built for Pylot for testing CakePHP MySQL queries.

FI-ATCSRP Source Code Open Sourced

June 16. 2009

The FI-ATCSRP source code is now public and open source, the code is hosted on GitHub.

Clustering Smartfox with Terracotta Whitepaper

April 15, 2009

A white paper I recently wrote for work (A51 Integrated) on getting SmartfoxServer to cluster over multiple servers using Terracotta was published on the SmartfoxServer website. This is pretty exciting as this is very new and upcoming backend technology which allows Flash applications to be hosted on a forever growing redundant server setup.

From SmartfoxServer Website: "After having worked with both SmartFoxServer and Terracotta they have produced a detailed white paper on how to setup a clustered environment, starting from the OS installation up to the SmartFox and Terracotta configuration."

You can download and view the PDF white paper as well as the demo binaries from the Smartfox Server website.

Latest Personal Projects

tododaloo.com

tododaloo.com allows you to manage a very simple task list in your web browser. All of the data stored in the list is saved within the cookies of the browser on your machine so the server never needs to save any it and it's never shared.

TorontoWiFiMap.com

TorontoWiFiMap.com is a service that was started out of a fun project I created to play with Google Maps. It allows a user to use their current location to find the closest unencrypted wireless access point in downtown Toronto.

FI-ApartmentBot

A project started to enable me to view a live video feed from my home over the internet. A web interface displays live video and also allow for full control of the robot. Robot also has autonomous roving functions to allow for security surveillance.

FI-ATCSRP

The FI-ATCSRP (Fisher Innovation - Autonomous Temperature Controlled Solder Reflow Plate) is a surface mount soldering hot plate used for soldering SMD components to a circuit board. The project was launched in order to gain the tools needed to create custom circuits for the FI-AUAV project.

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