Alan Shutko
My GPG public key is here. I welcome PGP/MIME or other PGP-compatible mail.
I'm in St. Louis, and work at Express Scripts doing Java web development right now.
Who do I know?
A bunch of people without webpages. But there are a few that do have one.
What do I do for fun?
Well, I do a lot of things. I read a lot, so check out my Books section, where you can see what I'm reading now, and what I might recommend.
I also enjoy roleplaying games, programming for fun, and (very) amateur photography. Not all of my hobbies have a web presence yet.
Hacks
I've written a bunch of quick hacks to solve little problems. You might find them interesting.
Projects
I'm in the process of packaging up various stuff I've written for my own use. Here's the stuff which will eventually make it up here, but may not have made it up yet. If you are interested in anything on the list which I haven't yet packaged, just email me.
- Emacs Neophyte Mode
- Because some people have voiced problems learning Emacs, I developed neophyte-mode, which provides a key summary and activates a number of Emacs features to ease the learning curve. It's pretty old these days, but if people have ideas for improvements, let me know.
- project.el
- Finding that I needed help keeping track of the time I spend on different projects, I wrote project.el, which keeps track of the time you work on various projects. This is unfinished software. project.el serves my needs, but if anyone can suggest features, I would be happy to implement them.
- Scrapbook (was Album)
- Scrapbook is a digital photo management program, or hopes to grow up to become one. It helps me and my wife keep track of our photos, associate captions, and build webpages. It's under development, but anyone who wants to try it out is welcome. I had to change the name because someone released a program called "album" first. It's moved to Sourceforge and I just made a release!
- envelope.cgi
- This is a quick program to use the LaTeX "envlab.sty" to print envelopes. I put this on our print server, and we can generate envelopes by typing in the address or selecting a saved address. Very convenient. The only reason it's in C is that at the time, I knew how to do all of that in C and not in perl, and I wanted something fast.