Mike Schaeffer's Blog

vCalc is the other side project I have going on right now. It's a simple RPN style calculator written for Win32. Underlying vCalc is a Scheme interpreter that I talk about a little here. The ultimate goal for vCalc is to have a calculator that can be easily extended with Scheme functions, in addition to the keystroke sequences you might expect. As it turns out, there are a lot of interesting problems that crop up trying to make this work right. I hope to blog more on this in the future.

Like Noisemaker, vCalc is shareware available through IceGiant.

One of my side projects is a little tool called Noisemaker. NoiseMaker is a utility that runs in the background and generates white noise over the computer's speakers to mask out distractions like the TV, phone, annoying co-workers, etc... If you need it, you need it badly...

It's available as a shareware program at Icegiant Software.

One interest of mine is programming languages, and more specifically, Lisp and Scheme. Lately, the blogosphere has produced a couple interesting blogs that tie to this interest:

• Lambda the Ultimate
• Planet Lisp

Planet Lisp aggregates a bunch of Lisp-related blogs, while LtU is more general and more of a discussion site.

Related, I came to Lambda the Ultimate via Eric Lippert's Blog on Weblogs @ASP.Net. Eric is a developer at Microsoft who's done a lot of work on Windows scripting and the Windows script languages.