Personal Projects
There are always a bunch of projects floating around Dennis Mojado's planning limbo. Might get to some, probably not most.
The Mojado Formula (2011)
The Mojado Formula is a site and tools to help people regain the energy they always had but have shut down from unconscious routines. It is also from personal experience, and has no goal but to share in the hopes of helping.
Mojo's Field Recordings (2006 - 2011)
I believe sound is one of the most engaging forms of media. It forces the recipient to work at the pace intended by the artist, and therefore slow down (or speed up) to that experience. Sound also pulls at the imagination, much like reading, to make it the a very powerful way to share experiences. Mojo's Field Recordings is but one version of this, a site to help share seemingly mundane experiences from around the globe.
Colo Cooperative (2008)
Thanks to a kind invitation by a group of UC Berkeley graduates, Caffeinated Code is able to live in a hardware colocated environment. This project implemented several interesting group-management concepts: including a shared-secret quorum implementation, digitally signed charters and voting, cooperative action proposals, infrastructure and operations planning, ipv6, systems security, and heterogeneous systems management. In other words, the Colo Coop needed to work together in order for anything to work at all. It was a voluntary technical exercise that proved to be quite efficient and effective.
PeerView (2004)
PeerView.net (now offline) was a small team project encompassing feedback and custom survey technology. It involved the use of nearly 100% opensource technologies on a private J2EE-based server farm. Users could set their survey criteria, use graphical javascript-based rating widgets, generate custom feedback survey messages for audiences, and obtain usage and statistical reports. CMV (Controller-Model-View, hehe) web application framework, budding ORM implementations, automated builds, unit testing, and iterative incremental development cycles. Dennis served as primary systems builder and technical lead with several contracted engineers.