zss_text.gif

History


Download | Products

Zen Spider Software started as a dream. It has become, not much more than that. Thus far, I have three products 'completed' and another on the way. DropUNIX 1.1 is the only publically released product as of today. It has recieved some small celebration and is used by a few. It was published on AMUG CD and on Celestin's Apprentice 3 CD.

ZenGUI is my first real ZSS project. It is a cross platform application framework for the Macintosh and Windoze in C++. It is aimed at being easy to use rather than feature laden. I haven't released the package yet because of a few reasons. First, I've moved away from GUI development to language development, so I won't support it as much as I'd like to. Second, it isn't that great. Sad but true, it still has some serious things to work out on the Windoze side (and I don't have a windoze machine to do this with).

From ZenGUI came ZenHeaders which is a collection of utilities that I found crucial to the development of ZenGUI. It became a beast of it's own in that it grew many times it's original size because of the time I put into it. It contains utility functions for debugging, mathematics, range checking, portability, typing, and more. It hasn't been released because I haven't written documentation for it.

Satori is my neglected baby. It is mostly an academic project, although I do see a need for it. It is an optimized Smalltalk, nothing new, but it will be available, unlike most of the others, and it will be compilable on any system supporting C++. Granted, it won't have tons of bells and whistles, but it will work for now.

ZenWeb is a very fun project that renders this website. It is written in Ruby and has a very dynamic architecture. I like it a lot because it helps me focus on the content of the website, not the formatting.