About Michael McTernan

Born in Hitchin, I went to school in Sheffield, then to Bristol University to study Computer Science for four years. I graduated in 2001 with a first and am now living in Forest Hill, London, working for a small company based in the South East of England.

Here are some projects of varying size that I am or have been involved with:

RipRight - CD Ripper in the style of autorip.
Aifffffs - FUSE filesystem that transcodes FLAC to AIFF while preserving tags.
Mscgen - A message sequence chart renderer that can integrate with doxygen.
Ledmail - An email indicator that uses the keyboard LEDs.
Qgallery - A quick and simple image thumbnail and gallery creator.
Telephonectld - A daemon that allows scripted remote control of a computer via DTMF tones.
Webctl - A tiny webserver that needs no filesystem. Written for the Coyote linux on a floppy disk project.
MySqlErd - Entity Relation Diagram generator for MySQL databases.
Mike's Code Snippets - Various neat code snippets that are suitable for re-use.
Boggle - Java implementation of the Parker Brothers' popular word game.
Virtual Ant Farm - A virtual ant farm that lives in your browser.
My Homepage - A little cgi script that produces my homepage.

Here are some things that I've done in my spare time and written up:

ARM Stack Unwinder - A cut-down model ARM processor written in C with the purpose of getting stack back traces from a running system.
Mike's Ambient Device - AVR microcontroller based ambient device that fetches data from the Internet.
CD Collection - How I ripped my CD collection for the 3rd time.
Perforce Hot Backup - Description and utilities to backup very large Perforce installations without stopping access to the service.
USB to RS232 adaptor modifications - Illustrated guide to slimming down a standard USB to RS232 adaptor for use in other projects.
Dismantled toy RC helicopter - An expired Christmas gift had it's wings pulled off.

This page is maintained by Michael McTernan.