Dobes Vandermeer

Dobes worked as the technical co-founder of this startup many years ago. Today it helps thousands of small business owners with their bookkeeping.

Dobes completed a "one game a month" game project that turned out fairly nicely. The project included graphics, sound, and music.

Banjo is an experimental programming language Dobes is developing to replace Lua, JavaScript, and C# as the first choice of scripting language for video game development.

It makes use of the latest programming research to provide a language that is capable of reducing bugs at no cost to performance or ease of coding.

This was an interesting project done in Flash & ActionScript to monitor the various sensors on a boat. Dobes was the primary initial developer of this application.

Node-Binstruct is a utility library for Node.js developers that need to interact with binary formats.

This is early work to add an HTTP REST-like API to PostgreSQL. The idea is to make it possible to interact with PostgreSQL using only HTTP instead of requiring a native client.

The add-on is helpful for systems without a native PostgreSQL client, or in instances where you want to use PostgreSQL asynchronously and only have a synchronous native client.

Amiga IFX is an application that hooks into various system events on an Amiga computer and allows users to add sound effects.

Uniclipser is a little plugin that Dobes made for the Eclipse IDE that allows users to bind hotkeys to some unicode characters.

Kiyaa! was a GWT toolkit that was created as part of developing Kashoo. It provided an HTML / XHTML templating system with one or two-way bindings between values and the displayed HTML. It also came with a handful of other useful goodies for GWT developers.

GWT-Distcc is a wrapper for the GWT compiler that allows distributed compilation and the compilation of different compile targets to be done in parallel on different computers. This tool can easily halve the otherwise lengthy GWT compile times for users who have extra hardware to use for compiling.

"Squirrel battle royale - an HTML5 platform fighting game."

This was a quick game prototype created as part of the "one game a month" challenge.

Retweetster was a project to help automate Twitter around the office. It would automatically retweet certain users who used certain words. The app consumes the Twitter API and runs on Google AppEngine.