About Richard Crowley
I am a software engineer, the product of a Java School that emerged unscathed. I grew up in Danville, Kentucky, renowned for high school football and southern hospitality. I earned Computer Engineering and Computer Science degrees at Washington University in Saint Louis.
I’ve worked for Yahoo!, Flickr (yes, I realize that it is technically a part of Yahoo! but I maintain that the acquisition only went as far as the servers) and now OpenDNS. I’ve written web apps, desktop apps and hardcore server software. Ideally, I’d skip the middle one. I write lots of code on the side and much of it is open source. What isn’t is probably not very good. I maintain a few side projects, too. (I’m a busy guy.)
Things I’ve had a hand in
- Flickr Uploadr — I built the open-source and Mozilla-based Flickr Uploadr while I was at Flickr.
- OEmbed — Over some beers and
arguments at 21st Amendment, Cal, Leah, Mike and I spawned and speced
OEmbed to help rid the world of those silly
<object>tags. Beer really is the Internet standard from which all others come.
Side projects
- Bashpress — A rebellion against browser-based blogging engines, WYSIWYG editors, and relational databases. It is command-line only, has no user accounts, and doesn’t use a database. It loves Smarty.
- Where’s my car? — A small (but growing) app that scrapes data from San Francisco’s GIS system to send you alerts whenever your car needs to be moved to avoid parking tickets.
- Curvr — C++ program that uses GraphicsMagick to keep me from ever having to touch Photoshop. The workflow receives email, modifies the image, geotags via Dopplr and uploads to Flickr.
- PownceFS — The goal was to create a Fuse filesystem that could “mount” the files my friends had uploaded to Pownce so that I could add them seamlessly to iTunes. The filesystem works but cannot respond quickly enough to iTunes’ demands. I’ve honestly lost interest but someone could easily modify it to precache everything.
- readelicious — Post to del.icio.us links in Google Reader. Adds a "Post to del.icio.us" link to each entry in Google Reader. The 'd' key will bring up the dialog for the current entry.