Scott Kim ambigramMouse over the large image to the right to spin it.Mouse over the small image above to hide the large one.Ambigram by Scott Kim, 1989.Oliver Steele

Software developer (OpenLaszlo, Functional JavaScript, PyWordnet, reAnimator, …)
& entrepeneur (AlphaMask, Dotted Pair, Style&Share, …)
& manager / project manager / exec (Apple Computer, Method Software, Laszlo Systems, …)

Oliver Steele is a Boston-area software consultant and serial entrepreneur, living with his wife and two children in Amherst, MA.

Oliver is the author of PyWordnet, Functional JavaScript, and a number of other open source libraries. He was the architect of OpenLaszlo, and worked at Apple Computer on Apple Dylan and Quickdraw GX. His interests include software visualization, programming languages, and math education.

This web site collects his writing, open source libraries, and other projects.

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Companies

LinkedIn
Laszlo Systems

created the OpenLaszlo platform for building rich internet applications.

If you've heard of Flex, this was the original.

Apple Computer

is a computer software and hardware company of some prominence. Oliver worked on the Quickdraw GX precursor to Quartz, and the Apple Dylan programming language and development environment.

BrowseGoods
visualizes the Amazon catalog using novel display algorithms. (movie)
Style & Share
is a visual collaging shopping cart. (movie)
AlphaMask
created the AlphaMask Graphics Library, a rendering and geometry library acquired by OpenWave.
Pogo Joe
was an acclaimed Q*Bert rip-off for the Commodore-64.

Open Source

GitHub
source directory
Javascript
Ruby / Rails
Python

Essays

blog
Software Development
Programming
Javascript
more…

Presentations

SlideShare
Invited Talks
Posters
Illustrations

Education Projects

Essays
Posters
Workbooks
In progress

Fun

Zazzle store
Apps
Not Apps
Trivia
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⊗ Old Projects Page
(Old projects page from 2006.)
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