[ /images/oflip.html ] Scott Kim ambigramMouse over the large image to the right to spin it.Mouse over the small image above to hide the large one.Ambigram by Scott Kim, 1989.Oliver Steele

Software developer (OpenLaszlo, Functional JavaScript, PyWordnet, reAnimator, …)
& entrepeneur (AlphaMask, Dotted Pair, Style&Share, …)
& manager / project manager / exec (Apple Computer, Method Software, Laszlo Systems, …)

Oliver Steele is a Boston-area software consultant and serial entrepreneur, living with his wife and two children in Amherst, MA.

Oliver is the author of PyWordnet, Functional JavaScript, and a number of other open source libraries. He was the architect of OpenLaszlo, and worked at Apple Computer on Apple Dylan and Quickdraw GX. His interests include software visualization, programming languages, and math education.

This web site collects his writing, open source libraries, and other projects.

Popular
The Aargh page reAnimator Functional JavaScript (library, presentation, tutorial) The IDE Divide Overloading Semicolon

Companies

LinkedIn
Laszlo Systems

created the OpenLaszlo platform for building rich internet applications.

If you've heard of Flex, this was the original.

Apple Computer

is a computer software and hardware company of some prominence. Oliver worked on the Quickdraw GX precursor to Quartz, and the Apple Dylan programming language and development environment.

BrowseGoods
visualizes the Amazon catalog using novel display algorithms. (movie)
Style & Share
is a visual collaging shopping cart. (movie)
AlphaMask
created the AlphaMask Graphics Library, a rendering and geometry library acquired by OpenWave.
Pogo Joe
was an acclaimed Q*Bert rip-off for the Commodore-64.

Open Source

GitHub
source directory
Javascript
Functional JavaScript JavaScript Bezier Library more
Ruby / Rails
JavaScript Fu JCON Type Checking DB Content OpenLaszlo Plugin more
Python
PyWordnet PyFSA more

Essays

blog
Software Development
The IDE Divide "Stretch" Languages
Programming
Overloading Semicolon (Yet Another Monad Tutorial) Avoiding temporary variables (pt. 2) Serving Client-Side Applications (historical) XML Schema Versioning XML Unqualified imports
Javascript
JavaScript Memoization Trickling JavaScript computation Synchronizing client models Self-printing JavaScript literals Why JavaScript?
more…

Presentations

SlideShare
Invited Talks
Practical Functional JavaScript (Ajax Experience 2008) OpenLaszlo Python Implementation (PyCon 2005) Google Tech Talk (2004) The Laszlo RIA (O'Reilly Tech Talk 2003) Declarative RIA Description (MIT Lightweight Language Workshop 2002)
Posters
Programmer's Food Pyramid Aargh More (Zazzle)
Illustrations
Git commit policies Latin agreement Supply/Demand springs Programmer's Food Pyramid more…

Education Projects

Essays
DOT numbers Division-Free LCM Adding fractions Second-grade Squares Topology for Tots Visualizing Basic Algebra
Posters
Latin Agreement and Case There their they're Supply/Demand Springs
Workbooks
In progress

Fun

Zazzle store
Apps
reAnimator The Aargh page Frost & Fire Ambimation foldr.com
Not Apps
Twitticisms Fizzbuzz Station Something stupid 404
Trivia
has a mouse signed by Doug Engelbart. father interviewed James Thurber. father-in-law discovered the then-smallest universal Turing machine. may have been the first person to watch his brain in real time in an MRI (1990). Erdös number is 7 (via Fred Brooks). was told by Oliver Sacks that he gets called Oliver Stone too.
Copyright 2009 by Oliver Steele. All rights reserved.
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