Projects I Currently Work On
- PayPal.com - Pay and get paid online. Currently working as a frontend developer.
- NINRemixes.com - Remixes of music by Nine Inch Nails. Currently working as primary backend and frontend developer as well as a site administrator.
Projects I've Formerly Worked On
- Yahoo! Local Neighbors (2007) - Did backend (PHP/MySQL) and frontend (HTML/CSS/Javascript) work for the initial launch of the Neighbors section of Yahoo! Local
- GMail (2007) - I was hired to develop Greasemonkey hacks for GMail to prototype new features
- Yahoo! Messenger (2006) - I wrote many of the initial versions of the plugins released with Messenger 8 for Windows
Websites I Visit Regularly
- Ars Technica - Tech news / forum
- Slashdot - Tech news / discussion
- Digg - News / discussion
- Last.fm - Site for music enthusiasts
- NGEmu - Console emulation news / discussion
Projects / Organizations I Admire
- Ubuntu Linux - My operating system of choice
- Mozilla Corporation - Makers of my web browser of choice
- GNU - One of the founding and most influential leaders of the open source movement
- W3C - Official body for drafting web standards
- WHATWG - Browser vendor-driven working group for drafting new de facto web standards to be proposed to the W3C
- PHP - My favorite web programming language
- MySQL - My favorite relational database
- Pidgin - My favorite IM client
People (who I know with personal website)
- Jake Zoll - My father
- Tristan O'Tierney - Mac developer
- Milo Vermeulen - Web developer / photographer
Products I Recommend
- Apple Hardware - High quality computers preinstalled with Apple's fantastic Mac OS X, but also capable of running Linux and Windows extremely well
- Apple iPhone - Great phone / portable computer
- Apple iPod - Great mp3 player
- System76 - High quality preinstalled Linux laptops, desktops, and servers
- Ubuntu Dells - Dell computers preinstalled with Ubuntu
- Google Talk + GMail - Next generation instant messaging service + email service
- Yahoo! Answers - Ask questions, get answers
Games I Recommend
- Beyond The Red Line - A Battlestar Galactica Figher Combat Game (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
Free software multiplayer fighter combat game based on the Battlestar Galactica universe and the Freespace2 engine. Currently only a playable demo is available, however this game has shown rapid progress. Worth playing and worth following the community! - Nexuiz (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
Free software multiplayer FPS based off of ID Software's Quake engine. I play on random servers which I ping low to. Having a fast connection is very important for this game. - FUO: Free Ultima Online (Windows only
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The commercial fantasy MMORPG Ultima Online produced by EA can be played on one of many free servers now if you can procure a copy of the client and install some third party software. With a vast, expansive world and many free servers to play on, this game is a wonderful time waster if you don't mind finding a way to procure the client (not difficult), the dated game engine (who cares), or the fact that it only runs in Windows (kind of a show stopper for me). The player run UO community is maturing quite well, but it still has a long way to go. The more people the better!- UOGamers.com Downloads - Everything you need to play on the UOGamers free server (which is the most popular), including a copy of the game client.
- UOGateway - an alternative application to UOGamers' ConnectUO to connect to free servers.
- My UOGamers Screenshots
- My EA Servers Funny Screenshots
- My EA Servers Nostalgic Screenshots
- My EA Servers PVP Screenshots
- Subspace/Continuum (Windows only but also Linux with patched WINE)
Fun, addictive, unique, free, massively multiplayer overhead 2d space shooter. I recommend the 17th Parallel zone.
