Software Portfolio - John Dalbey

Games and Puzzles

Quotepuzzles.com Funny, inspiring, educational word puzzles anyone can enjoy.	Connections Made Easy (online) A clone of NYT Connections puzzle with extra features and hints to make the puzzle easier to solve.
Speed Gaps Solitaire (online) A version of the solitaire card game "Gaps" (aka "Montana") that has a reduced deck for faster games.	Spider World (online) SpiderWorld is a web-based, graphical environment that helps anyone learn how to code using a simple block-based language.
WordAnswers.net Are you hooked on Wordscapes, the popular word puzzle phone app? If so, you might sometimes find yourself stuck on a level with just one word that you can't figure out. This site will ease your frustration.	WordWhizzle Bot An Android 'bot that plays the mobile game "Word Whizzle", intended as an instructional demo.
Mahjongg Solitaire The classic tile-matching solitaire game for PC.	Java Startrek A Java port of the classic Super Star Trek text-based game (originally in BASIC).
Jotto Word Server (online) A server that offers random Jotto words.	Networked Jeopardy A distributed Jeopardy game ideal for classroom use. (Requires Java).
Robot Rodeo A grid-based puzzle game that starts easy but becomes quite challenging. Can you corral the cow with the robots?	Prototype - Collaborative Crossword Puzzles Prototype for multiplayer crossword puzzles (online).

Free HTML Calendar Add a nicely formatted calendar to your web page for free.	NATO Phonetic Alphabet Learn and practice the phonetic alphabet with fun interactive learning aids.
Interactive Election Calculator View and manipulate electoral college votes in an easy to read visual display.	Random Mad Libs Generator Generate random mad libs from a huge list of english words.

EasyAuth: A 2FA secrets manager and TOTP generator for the desktop with a focus on ease of use for beginners.
Markdown Spreadsheet: A spreadsheet in a plain-text file that can be modified with any text editor
Ebook Scraper: Automates scanning of Overdrive ebooks in the browser and using OCR to convert it to plain text
Password Generator: Sooner or later, probably every software developer writes their own password generator.
Instant Web Page: Simple, fast, "self-hosting" web page.
Quick ToDo List: Very small, fast, todo list with limited feature set. (Requires Python.)
Time Logger: A desktop tool for logging time, primarily for programming tasks.
Online Character Counter: Enter your message in the text area and view the number of characters.
Java LOC counter and BlueJ LOC counter extension: Lines of code counter for Java.
Time Selector for Java: A custom Swing text field for time data entry that allows selecting any 24-hour time with just 3 mouse clicks.
Java API Extractor: Extract public skeleton and javadoc comments from Java source code.
The Oracle of Java: A web tool for executing java programs.
Natural number ADT: A Java class for a Natural number ADT, representing non-negative integers.
Case Counts By City: A graph of Covid-19 Positive Case Counts By City for SLO County. (archive)

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