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Contact: mailto:erick<at>ejjohnson<dot>org, sip:erick<at>ejjohnson<dot>org, xmpp:erick<at>ejjohnson<dot>org

FAQ

Who are you?: My name is Erick Johnson. Hi! Welcome to my collection of Internety stuff
Why is your web page so ugly?: Well... I'm an engineer - with the wish to be a designer but not the talent. So when I'm on my own in no mans land - this is as fancy as I get. However given a spec sheet from a real UI/UX designer I can build the crap out of it.
I was looking for "Cliffs of Dover". Is that you?: No. But Eric Johnson is a fine guitarist, though not exactly my personal taste
Why shouldn't I leave your page right now?: I don't know. Why did you come in the first place?
Can you offer me anything?: I'm a very good software engineer. Do you need some software? I can offer you a webservice or maybe just some software related advice. I also am a good listener - you can send me your issues to one of the contact URLs above - that's a good way to get in touch with me.
What are standards?: That's the first good question you've asked. Standards are the specifications to which all modes of communication adhere - think of the rules of english grammar. Without standards we'd all end up speaking our own gibberish and nobody would understand anyone else. Software standards let us build web pages, Javascript to run on those pages, protocols to serve those pages, web servers to speak those protocols, operating systems to run those web servers, system calls to open sockets on the operating system. You can bring standards all the way to the electricity running out of the outlet in your wall - for instance 120V at 60HZ alternating current is a standard. In software - standards ususally emerge from standards bodies. The big two (IMHO) include IETF and W3. The IETF is a body that concerns itself with writing standards for the whole Internet (i.e. not just port 80). W3 pretty much just sticks to web standards. The IETF maintain the RFCs that define the standards of the Internet. The biggest 3 standards I work with are partially defined in these RFCs 3261, 6120, and I suppose 2616. The RFCs give me a place to go find the authoritative answers to recurring question, "how is this supposed to work?"
Why are the letters in the headers changing colors?: Because it feels happy :) You can also click each letter if you would like to help change it' color.
Who is that ridiculously cute baby half way down the page?: That is my daughter, Nara Grace Johnson. Thank you for calling her ridiculously cute - I concur.
What is something you can't stand?: I hate when marketting departments rebrand existing entities with new words and the world thinks it's something new - I call it the phenomena of new and improved. The examples I bitch about to my poor wife the most (God bless her for at least pretending to listen to me) are "The Cloud", "Web 2.0", and "Anything As a Service". I'm positive there are non Internet related examples, but I'm less tuned in there.

Work

Junction Networks
- My.OnSIP Sproutcore XMPP Client
- OnSIP Web Portal
- OLDDDD XSL Portal
- Main Marketing Site
- ...and pretty much anything/everything else at Junction Networks that is based in software I've either built, extended, maintained, architected, or contributed to in some manner.
Bcuz Vitamins
Taproot: Cool Culture
Taproot: CUE
Auction Inc.

Random Assortment of Programming Stuff

Marrian's reel with little Nara Easter Eggs. See the "reel" site. Get it?
Marrian's first Mother's day gift
My Pong Tool - A tool that can simulate the real ping appliction (ICMP responses) with a Javascript XHR (sometimes - depends on the remote end).
My first open source patch
Ericks Fantasy Draft - This tool has saved me countless hours of pointless fantasy football draft research (although it took me about 6 hours to build). It uses a Ruleby decision engine to select my next fantasy draft players based on a player ranking system (me screen scraping espn.com) and the previous selections of the draft. It analyzes my team and selects the based available player for the slots I need filled. (Most of the time the server isn't running so the link probably doesn't work)
Sproutcore IRC Archive
Ruby Couch tools - When I first encountered couch db the couch app stuff was still in it's infancy and mildly broken. This is an interim port of the couch app functionality to ruby
Digest auth - an implementation of the digest auth access mechanism for tutorial purposes from a blog post I wrote.
If you use git, git-completion.bash is the most useful script you've never heard of, not because of the completions... because of the __git_ps1() function