User:Arcturis
My name is Kenneth Ballard. I am currently a Software Engineer with the Epiq Corporation in Kansas City, Kansas. Previously I worked for the Cerner Corporation of North Kansas City, Missouri, at a location in the southern part of Kansas City, Missouri. I also have my own web site (see links below) where I showcase software I've written. I also have my own business that I am trying to get off the ground in which I hope to actively sell software I write. I have also been published by IBM developerWorks several times.
Links[edit]
Colony West Software Company - My business
Wikipedia Articles[edit]
These are articles to which I have been a significant contributor, or articles I have started:
- Peru State College
- MediNotes
- KeePass
- Pledge Protection Act
- Double Jeopardy Clause -- sections "'Petite' policy" and "Retrial after conviction"
- Mary Sarah
- Javan lapwing
Curriculum Vitae[edit]
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Computer and Management Information Systems
Peru State College, Peru, NE
- Student Senate - Senator At-Large
- Peru State Times - Staff Writer
- Student Tutor - Academic Resource Center
Associate of Science - Computer Programming
Southwestern Community College, Creston, IA
- Phi Theta Kappa - member of Beta Eta Nu chapter
Articles:
"Secure Programming with the OpenSSL API" series:
- "Part I - Overview of the API: Creating basic secure and unsecure connections" - published July 2004
- "Part II - Secure Handshake: Avoid a main in the middle (MITM) attack" - published May 2005
- "Part III - Secure services are necessary: Creating a basic secure server application using OpenSSL" - published September 2006
Note: I did not come up with the series title. Blame my editor on that one.
Software:
- Puzzle Pirates Trade Profiteer - Helper application for the online game Puzzle Pirates
- digestIT 2004 - Simple application for calculating or verifying MD5 and SHA-1 signatures, released December 2003
- Preceded by digestIT 2003, which was released October 2003
- Preceded by MD5 for Win32, which was released August 2002
- KCCI SchoolNet 8 Desktop Weather Client - Weather client that downloads and displays information from the KCCI SchoolNet 8 data repository hosted by ISU
Software that is no longer available:
This is software that I wrote that was once available. You might be able to find information on these projects by looking around online. You can also look on The Internet Archive for "http://www.geocities.com/ballarke", which was my original web site.
- Antares Project - upgrade from digestIT 2004 with more features on top of what digestIT 2004 offers. Was in beta testing before complications and other things prompted the end of this project.
- HttpClient - Minimalist Java and C++ HTTP communication library, initially released in 2001
- HttpMail - Java and C++ library for talking to the Hotmail servers by emulating the HTTPMail protocol used by Outlook Express 5 and later, initially released in 2001
- IPLookup - Java library for performing a reverse lookup of an IP address, initially released in 2001
- WindowSIL / X-SIL - Socket interface library - initially released in 2001
- LinkedList - C++ linked list library - initially released in 2001
- SString - C++ string class - initially released in 2001
- BinaryString - C++ class to handle binary data similar to a string - initially released in 2001
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