Ben Hoyt
I’m a software engineer and director at Brush Technology in Christchurch, New Zealand. I’m married to the only Franci Hoyt in the world, and we have two lovely daughters. See our family photos.
We’re planning to move to the U.S. (my birth country) for about two years in mid-2010, so I’m looking for a software job there. I design and develop web applications and embedded firmware, and I’m fluent in Python, C, C++, HTML+CSS, and English. Read my full CV / resume.
Web sites I run
- Gifty helps couples make great wedding gift registries.
- The Brush Blog is where I write about software and the web.
- DecentURL turns ugly URLs into meaningful ones.
- Prism magazine was a small-scale print magazine I edited.
Projects I’ve authored
Below are some small open source projects I’ve authored or co-developed. Most of them are released under a BSD-style license. Enjoy!
- MRO maps database rows to objects in web.py.
- fabricate is a simple build tool that automatically finds dependencies.
- inih is a tiny INI file parser written in C.
- Protothread.h is my C++ port of Adam Dunkels’ protothread library.
- nobraces lets you write C with Python-style indentation. :-)