Creationix Innovations

My name is Tim Caswell. I've been programming ever since I was big enough to type on a keyboard. I love creating things. Software gave me a medium where I had unlimited resources and could create anything. I've been making cool stuff for fun and profit since the late 90's thanks to the open community of hackers.

Over the years I have gained experience in a number of exciting technologies. I want to offer my services to the world directly. This website is a landing place to contact me and learn about the services I offer.

Consulting Services

I want your company to succeed and will help in any way I can. If you are looking for some node.js expertise, I am available on a daily or weekly basis. I can give advice, train your people, or do actual programming. I've been working with node.js since the very beginning, long before it was popular. I know the pain points and I know solutions.

Sponsored Projects

One of my greatest passions in programming is finding an unsolved technical problem and solving it. I spent almost twenty years programming in restricted environments. I often felt trapped by the environment and limited in what I was able to do. In the last few years I've realized that I can make anything given enough time. I especially like finding something that some say can't be done and then doing it!

In order to complete these projects I need more time. Contact me if you or your company wants to sponsor any of these. The code I write as part of the sponsorship will be released and developed in the open. The benefit to you, the sponsor, is getting to choose and prioritize what technologies I work on.

Brozula

Brozula is a new Lua VM I'm writing that runs on top of JavaScript.

Moonslice

Moonslice is a new web framework destined for both node.js and lua. It is very fast and efficient. Moonslice is a collection of interfaces and libraries that work together to make a next-gen platform that will be much easier to develop for. I've done a lot of research in this area and have been designing node.js web frameworks for years.

• Web - A new http layer to replace node's "http" module. This same interface is used in both node and lua versions of moonslice. It is composable by default and doesn't require a library like connect to mix in middleware modules.
• Continuable Interface - Research into a new callback style that is almost as powerful as promises, but much simpler to implement.
• Continuable-Based Streams - Research into a new continuable-based stream format that's both clean and powerful. It solves many of the issues that node.js streams have and is much easier to mix and match parts.
• Moonslice Luv - A version of moonslice aimed to be a standalone lua module that works with normal lua or luajit binaries.
  • Luv - Libuv bindings to Lua. These are my second lua bindings for libuv, the first being part of luvit.
  • lhttp-parser - Http-parser bindings to Lua. This is lua bindings to the http_parser library that luvit and node.js use.

References

If you wish to learn more about me, try some of these links:

• Github Profile - Where I keep a lot of my software.
• LinkedIn Profile - My linked-in profile with traditional resume type information.
• Coderwall profile - My earned badges for contributing to open-source software
• howtonode.org - A community node.js blog I started.
• nodebits.org - Another community node.js blog I started.
• Geeklist profile - A programmer oriented community
• Personal twitter account - Where I announce my software projects and tweet about random other stuff.