Home page of David T. O'Toole
About
My name is Dave and this is my website. I am a free software volunteer, GNU Emacs user, video game programmer and concerned citizen of the United States.
You can email me. I can also be reached as "dto" on Internet Relay Chat, freenode channel #lispgames.
My main software development project right now is Blocky, a visual programming language based on Common Lisp.
I also maintain a Lisp games development blog.
Pages on this site
- Games page, with screenshots and free downloads for my games. You can play now on Windows, Mac OSX, or GNU/Linux.
- Independence and Indie-dependence, an opinion essay about what I consider to be ominous trends in independent game development.
- Thoughts on iOS games, an opinion essay on Apple's iOS SDK development terms. They've since been changed and I may write a follow-up essay.
- My postmortem writeup for my entry into the 2010 Lisp Game Design Challenge.
- Orgmode Tutorial. A tutorial I wrote for org-mode. Available in five languages!
- An interactive guide to the GNU Emacs CL package. Unfinished programing tutorial.
- Why you should support ELPA — An opinion article about the Emacs Lisp Package Archive. This article is now obsolete because the ELPA package manager has been merged into GNU Emacs.
- Book Review: Clarence Irving Lewis, "Mind and the World Order" (1929).
Links to other people and places
- The Lisp Games Wiki maintained by the #lispgames community
- Squeak, an alternate universe full of interesting people and programs
- The EmacsWiki is an extensive community website for Emacs users and developers.
- Ari Charbonneau is a friend and fellow recording artist.
- Mario Lang is a fellow Emacs user who writes audio-related elisp (among other things.)
- Michael Olson is a fellow Emacs developer who works on Muse (see his site for details.)
- The mathematician Eduardo Ochs taught me how to really program a computer.
- Carsten Dominik is the author of OrgMode, my favorite personal organization manager software.
- Stéphane Rollandin writes software to control csound from Emacs.
- Sacha Chua is a software developer and self-described tech evangelist conducting research into human-computer interaction.
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre are an awesome band.
- Ryan Yeske, who wrote nethack-el
- ME! I can be reached at dto@ioforms.org