Rich Adams
Hi there! My name is Rich, and I'm a British programmer living in San Francisco. By day I work with servers at Gracenote, by night I write code and fight crime*. I also write about programming and web related things whenever I find the time. Check out my CV/résumé if you're into that sort of thing.
* The "fight crime" part might be made up...
Elsewhere
Currently
Here's what I'm currently up to,
- During the day, I'm a systems engineer working on cool stuff at Gracenote in San Francisco.
- Playing various security related CTF challenges for fun.
- Taking classes to learn Cantonese ( 广东话 ).
- Occasionally putting up small projects on my GitHub account.
- Constantly changing the code for my photo album site (and trying to become a better photographer).
Previously
Here's some things I've built or worked on in the past,
- Created PHP and Java wrappers for Gracenote's Music Web API.
- jQuery Taphold, an event to detect when a user holds a click/tap for a set time.
- jQuery Tripleclick, an event to detect triple clicks.
- NagNOC, a fullscreen Nagios status monitor for a NOC or operations room.
- NagNOT, an IM/SMS notifier for Nagios.
- Added various security enhancements and plugins to Symphony, an open source project on GitHub.
- Word Zombies, a HTML5 game (built for a 24hr hackathon), where you shoot zombies by typing words.
- I worked on baggage related parts of Altéa Departure Control, a global airline departure control system.
- TrackTaste, a music recommendation engine I built for my final year Masters degree project.
- Some greasemonkey scripts and a Firefox toolbar for the LiveJournal support teams.
Travel
I love to travel (and keep lists), so here's my travel map with a list of places. A blue pin is somewhere I've been, a green pin is a mountain I've climbed (well, attempted to climb) and a red pin is anything else. South American and Africa are looking pretty empty, hopefully not for too much longer.