Current/Past Projects
Quizzy
Quizzy is a Python-based Robot for Google Wave designed to help collegiate Quiz Bowl players in their training. Quizzy responds to commands allowing participants in a Wave to request questions from the ACFDB (which is maintained as a separate database stored in Quizzy's Google App-Engine Datastore), filtered by level and category. In the future, Quizzy will be incorporated into a broader Quiz Bowl Gadget which will allow teams to conduct practices over Wave, and potentially even hold competitive matches.
CCAMS Website/Forecasting App
The Cornell Chapter of the American Meteorological Society has a functional website to facilitate the club's forecasting activities. However, the site is showing its age, and is written in immutable PHP code. I'm working on porting the site to a new, Web 2.0-esque design which will be HTML5/CSS3 compliant, and will serve content dynamically via Django and possibly django-cms. The core feature of the site will remain its forecasting application, which lets student meteorologists record forecasts for the daily WeatherPhone. However, the major goal of the project is to expand that application to also serve forecasts to the Athletics department for sporting events, the Cornell Daily Sun for its daily newspaper forecast, and Cornell Information Technologies, so that the forecasts can be incorporated in the various LCD announcement boards scattered around campus in buildings such as libraries.