About Me and this Website

The purpose of this website is to share the stuff that I’ve created. My thoughts are on my blog, and my photos are on my photo site.

My name is Corey Wallis, and I go by techxplorer in a variety of different places. I’ve been developing software for more than 9 years in a variety of different positions in the higher education sector in Australia.

This year I returned to studies and started a honours degree at Flinders University. In 2011 I completed my thesis topic and my thesis is available online at this website.

My honours thesis topic was exploring the possibility of undertaking collaborative mapping activities in an infrastructure independent manner using the resilient AdHoc mesh network powered by the software developed by the Serval Project.

In 2012 I’m finishing my honours degree and working for the Serval Project by contributing to the Serval software as well as continuing development on the mapping prototype application that I started development on during my studies.

Software used to Build this Website

Software used to build the website includes:

• PHP - scripts to build and manage the website
• jQuery - basis for all of the JavaScript
• Table of Contents jQuery Plugin - automatically builds a nested table of contents
• jQuery Cycle Plugin - a slideshow plugin, used on the homepage with the photos
• MultiMarkdown Composer - used to write the content of the site
• MultiMarkdown - convert the content MultiMarkdown syntax into HTML
• bibtexbrowser - provide online access to the bibliography used in my honours thesis
• BibDesk - manage the BibTex bibliography used in my honours thesis