Just trying to help, one line at a time

My programming career started when I worked in manufacturing as a CNC operator and programmer. As I encountered more disparate systems, I continued to learn and push myself to overcome these inconveniences with small WinForm applications.

Some years and many applications later, I continue to try to help colleagues and fellow programmers by creating new open source projects around the obstacles that I continue to face.

MTConnect Contribution

The Industrial Internet of Things standard, MTConnect, is a fantastic semantic model. I have followed its development closely since about 2014 and have gradually tried to become more involved in its development as my experience grows.

In 2020, I began developing a strongly-typed library to help other developers properly adopt the standard in .NET applications and introduced MTConnectCore as an open source project.

Utilities.Games

In my spare time, what little I have, I love playing video games. However, I've always found it frustrating keeping track of the various fan-made calculators and guides online. In 2019, I began developing the concept for what is now the Utilities.Games application.

Sponsorship of this project would help me engage more with the gaming community to find more ways of providing quality, interactive gameplay utilities.

Consoul

I frequently use .NET Console applications to prototype new concepts, learn new APIs, or just simply toy around. However, I always found it frustrating to re-write the same helper methods around accepting user inputs, providing choices, and even maintaining different text color for various prompts.

I wrote the Consoul library to mirror the structure of MVC applications within Console applications. The structure and helper methods saves developers a lot of time and headache when implementing basic administrative utilities. I later added the ability to automate tasks by storing user inputs and allowing the Console application to run autonomously by providing a reference to the stored inputs as startup arguments.

Every cup of coffee helps

I maintain most of these projects in my spare time and I have many other projects I'd like to contribute to. But, I need your help convincing my wife that these projects are worth the time I'm spending not sleeping 😆