Welcome to BThomson.com

Hi there! I'm Brandon Thom­son. Here you'll find some apps, es­says, pho­tos, and oth­er use­ful stuff I've cre­ated. A lot of this con­tent is pretty old: I write a bit more fre­quently on the blog and even tweet oc­ca­sion­ally. I'm 'bthom­son' on irc.freenode.net (try #appengine or #python), or you could send me an email.

Code

I used to write pro­grams for the Mac desktop, but these days I use my spare time to de­vel­op web apps. Check 'em out:

Conquer-on-Contact is a simple browser-based multiplayer strategy game. It's hard to describe; you'll just have to give it a try.

Kakuro Solver

Get the Python source code for a Kakuro solver (most popular page on this site).

(see less interesting stuff)

At Cafe Sur­vey you can eas­ily cre­ate sur­veys and track the res­ults with pretty charts. These days people should prob­ably use Google Docs, but it was kinda neat when it came out.

Email test tool

Sometimes I use this to test mail delivery from a workstation or webapp to arbitrary addresses. Any email sent to the bthomson.com domain shows up here.

Distributed Web Cache Demo

I had to build this lame-o app and demo for a class, so I figured I might as well put it online. Why not? Includes video demo and source code.

Writing

Brandon's Blog — Anything I write today usually goes in Blogger because it's easy and I'm lazy.

Dvorak, or Why I Learned to Love the Status Quo

A story about standards and the reasons I gave up on the Dvorak keyboard layout.

On Effective Note-taking In Technical Courses

I was suprised by the way most people took notes in the best math and engineering courses.

Misc

Skyline Drive: Luray, Virginia

My favorite photos in Picasa

I'll get a fuller collection online someday, but these are a few of my favorites.

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StackOverflow User Feed

StackOverflow is a programming-oriented question and answer site. Follow this feed to see my contributions.

A story about Alpach Software

Alpach was what I did on the web as a teenager when I knew even less about the right things do than I know now (is that even possible?)

Updates From The Twitter

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