Taffer's Realm
I'm a professional writer and wanna-be video game designer who's been playing video games and programming computers since the early 80s.
My resumé (or a PDF version if you want).
Here is my blog, Taffer's Realm, although I'm using Twitter and Facebook more often.
Short Stories
- Alex the Dragon and the King of Cats - Released Nov. 3, 2007
- The Offering Fields - Introduction - Released Nov. 22, 2007
Computer Stuff
Besides my day-job stuff, I've done a bit of freelance work.
UNIX Advanced: Visual QuickPro Guide for PeachPit Press.
Various articles for IBM's developerWorks portal:
- Introduction to XForms (series): Part 1: The new Web standard for forms, Part 2: Forms, models, controls, and submission actions, Part 3: Using actions and events
- Build Apache Geronimo applications using JavaServer Faces (tutorial series): Part 1: Use Eclipse and Apache MyFaces Core to build a basic application, Part 2: Using Tomahawk with JavaServer Faces, Part 4: Extend JSF with Apache Trinidad components, Part 5: Integrating your JSF application with Spring
- Errors: errno in UNIX programs
- Text processing with UNIX
- How to use Subversion with Eclipse
- Config file processing with LibXML2 (I didn't write this one, although I did create the outline/proposal.)
- Basic UNIX filesystem operations
- Command-line processing with getopt()
- Make UNIX work with Windows XP and Mac OS X
- Using ReiserFS with Linux
- Build UNIX software with Eclipse
- Network services: Legacy design versus threaded design
My Widgets for things like the Yahoo! Widget Engine (aka Konfabulator) and Apple's Dashboard.
Info about Arcane Dragon can be found here; I'll get a domain later when I actually have something to show.
Marooned!
Marooned! is an exploration/adventure sort of game that I'm currently prototyping. You can see what I'm up to with it on LiveJournal and Twitter.
