Projects

Over the past few years I’ve participated in many open-source project, some examples are listed below.

Active

Android Notes

Note pad application for Android mobile devices. The goal for this is to have a notepad for Android that syncs to the cloud. The obvious places for this to sync would be Google Docs or Google Notebook since every Android owner has a Google account. Unfortunately the API’s for these services don’t allow two way syncing, so I’m still trying to decide what services to sync with.

Android Password Safe

Apache 2 licensed, secure password storage application for Google’s Android mobile platform. It uses AES 128bit encryption to keep passwords secure. Includes support for password groups, and CSV import/export.

Less than two weeks after Android’s initial release I answered with the first working version of Android Password Safe. I worked through the Thanks Giving weekend to release the
first publicly available third-party application with source code.

Nearly a year later the first Android phone was released and Android Password Safe was made available via Android Marketplace. In a very short time Android Password Safe was installed twenty-thousand times!

IDentity In The Browser (IDIB)

First publicly available open-source OpenID Firefox plug-in.

This project was the result of an Vidoop Labs project I piloted. The effort aims to solve some of the usability and user-experience issues facing OpenID.

Since launch Vidoop has worked with Myspace and Flock to integrate OpenID into Flock’s browser which has got quite a bit of attention lately.

• PC Magazine - MySpace Pushes OpenID Through Vidoop Deal
• Mashable - Flock Works With MySpace On OpenID
• MarketWatch - MySpace, Flock and Vidoop Collaborate to Develop OpenID Identity …
• Wired - Flock’s New Add-on Proves OpenID In The Browser Can Work

Retired

DropenID

OpenID Plugin for Drupal 5. This project is no longer active, Drupal now includes OpenID support in version 6.

Undroid

A package manager for the Android mobile platform. I put put quite a bit of time and effort developing this package, but ultimately it was made irrelevant by Google market place.