ExtendScript is a very powerful tool for adding custom functionality to Abobe products - in my case Photoshop.  I've got a non-paid (family) project where I've got to convert a Microsoft PowerPoint file, slide-by-slide into a series of PSDs with lots of little rules: the correct images broken out into separate layers at the correct position and layer level, text combined from all locations in the slide and filled into the correct text layers, layers shown or hidden as needed, and more.

Anaximander is a tool designed for OpenSimulator, InWorldz, and related grids to create world maps fast.  Utilizing the power of the D programming language's native parallism tools and down-to-the-metal compiled code, Anaximander cuts a task that took over 10 minutes on a small test grid of 27 regions to about 10 seconds.

CardMunch was a neat idea - use your gadget's onboard camera to scan capture the contents of a business card and upload it to a free service where it would then be translated into contact information.  With the built-in LinkedIn integration it would then associate the contact with their LinkedIn account, if they had one, allowing you to send a contact request at the push of a button - after all, if they gave you their card, you should be able to make instant contact on LinkedIn.

I've come to the conclusion that the module auto-downloader concept I'd been working on was not useful to implement - there's no ability for it to scale. With potentially dozens or more of modules for the engine being possible, there's no sane way of building an auto-downloader that can be easily maintained and kept up-to-date. It is much simpler just to provide simple instructions for how to install a module and let the users get them from wherever they want to get them. Thus I've turned my attention to getting the codebase compiling and working on OSX.

I've been a fan of Pivotal Tracker for several years now.  It's helped me organize and schedule iterations for everything from work tasks to school projects and more - all in the nice, fluid "Web 2.0" manner we've been coming to expect from modern web applications.  It's been great - until one day I suddenly needed to do some reorganization that required opening several panels at the same time.