User:Ix Forres

Ix Forres

A long-time EVE player, longer-time Wikipedia/Wikinews editor, and long-time EVE third party developer.

Currently a member of the Righteous Chaps corporation. Founder and lead developer of the MMMetrics development team, a team of developers committed to making really nice webapps for EVE Online.

Applications

EVE Metrics - A large-scale market aggregation and tool website
Corporation Logo Generator Server - A corporation logo generator and server
ISKsense - A web service that provides advertising for EVE websites and advertisers which uses ISK for payment
accVIEW - An API-driven corporation background check tool

Open Source

Quite a lot of stuff on Github - EVE related and not. But mostly EVE related.

Libraries

EVE Corporation Logo Generator - A Ruby library for generating corporation logos
EVE Killmail Parser - A Ruby library for parsing killmails
Recache - An addon to the Reve gem for transparently caching EVE API requests using ActiveRecord as a Rails plugin

Wiki Stuff I Do

I'm a staunch supporter of consistency and standards in Wiki projects. Evelopedia is no exception, and should be held to the highest standards of consistency, good organisation, logical layout and design. I make it my job to try and keep Evelopedia on course to being consistently good, useful, well-structured, properly maintained and sensibly edited.

I work by the policy of assuming good faith from all editors, and am a strong proponent of discussing before changing. I lurk 24/7 in the #evelopedia channel on irc.coldfront.net for just this reason, and can be contacted at (nearly) any time of day to discuss edits or potential changes. I'll also respond to contact via the details below or via my talk page.

My main contributions lie in templates for Evelopedia- I keep them in order, try and keep them consistent across the project, and keep them logically ordered and clearly presented. I also contribute to stubs, pages needing cleanup, and am on a never-ending quest to open up dialogue between YARR/ISD and the community to new levels of transparency and agility.

Oh, and I break things a lot, then email what I break to CCP in the hope they'll fix them. Which they do. Sometimes.

Contact

I can be contacted on IRC (Ix_Forres in #eve-dev/#eve-pub/#evelopedia on irc.coldfront.net), or via email.

My email contact details, including my public key for signed and/or encrypted mails, are available on my blog. I will happily accept unsolicited encrypted/signed mails. I will not trust the content of incoming mails without a valid digital signature. My key is also available on most popular keyservers.

Email Details and Public Key

james (a t )tal k un afr aid . c0 dot uk (Obviously not valid by default- remove spaces, convert 0s to os, dot -> ., (a t ) to @).

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