User:Arcturis
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My name is Kenneth Ballard. I am formerly a Software Engineer with the MediNotes Corporation in West Des Moines, IA. 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.
[edit] Links
Colony West Software Development - My business
[edit] Curriculum Vitae
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:
- Antares Project - upgrade from digestIT 2004 with more features on top of what digestIT 2004 offers
- 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
- 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
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.
- 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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