Send me email at emmiller@gmail.com. I welcome comments about any material here. In addition, I am available for contract work (contracting details).

News (RSS feed)

• August 12, 2008 - How To Become An Open-Source Contractor
• August 1, 2008 - Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites
• June 27, 2008 - I am settled in Hyde Park, Chicago.

Math/Science papers

• "Abundance of pseudoknots: theory and observation" (pdf) (with Daniel Aalberts) - thermodynamics of RNA structures
• "Holt-Winters Forecasting Applied to Poisson Processes in Real-Time" (pdf) (undertaken while at IMVU.com) - monitoring business processes

History papers

• "The Very Long Run" (pdf) - Does culture aid or hinder economic development? Lessons from Robert Keayne, Jeffrey Skilling, and John D. Rockefeller
• "Radicals of the Industrial Revolution" (pdf) - Brief analysis of Eli Whitney, Nathan Appleton, and Alfred Houghton

Miscellaneous writing

• Prose Appreciation Blog - brief analyses of short passages
• The Devil's Writing Admonitions - Words to use with care
• How I Read
• Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites

Web software that I wrote

• Google Maps Extension - Google Maps for MediaWiki
• ErlyDTL (with Roberto Saccon) - Django Template Language for Erlang
• mod_zip (sponsored by Box.net) - ZIP archiver for Nginx
• mod_strip - whitespace remover for Nginx

Web design

• WSO home page (2006) - site for Williams students
• EphTown (2007) (two) (three) - site for Williams alumni
• Prose Appreciation Blog (2007)

Other web projects

• Willipedia - Williams College wiki
• More Shelves - Catalog model trains

Software reference

• Emiller's Guide to Nginx Module Development

Favorite software written by other people

• Nginx - lightweight web server
• Opera - lightweight web browser
• Erlang - event-driven, functional programming language with lightweight parallelism