Hello,
My screen name is Cubert, and these are some of the projects I have worked on. I am a “Jack-of-all-trades,” specializing in managing and hosting networks and servers as a Certified Systems Engineer. I code in various programming languages and have experience with graphics, Photoshop, audio and video manipulation, encoding, and streaming.
The majority of my programming expertise centers around Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Perl, ColdFusion, PHP, CSS, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Bash, and HTML. Additionally, I design full-stack solutions and manage the infrastructure needed to operate and deliver SaaS and Single-Page Applications. For more information on me check out Cubert’s Experience for my full resume.
Here are just a few of my projects:
Not including the 30 plus plugins available on www.plugins4automate.com
EventID
The Microsoft Event Management and Notification System, EventID, is a client/server application designed to collect error, warning, and failure logs from Microsoft’s Event Logs on a scheduled interval (default: 15 minutes). These events are then delivered to the EventID API, which operates on a LAMP system.
The EventID management console is web-based and comes integrated with the API. This console enables efficient alert management by allowing users to assign priorities to different events. Based on these assigned priorities, the system determines whether an alert email should be sent when a new event is logged.
The management console excels at handling duplicate events and provides comprehensive statistics, such as the number of systems reporting in, the total events received, duplicate events detected, along with details like Event IDs, Event Sources, and their descriptions.
DNSWalk
DNSWalk is a Windows application typically run on a Windows Domain Controller (DC) or DNS server. It leverages the server’s root hints to query all DNS servers for a specified domain name. The application systematically traces the DNS hierarchy by first querying the root servers, then moving to the Top-Level Domain (TLD) servers, and finally reaching the third-level domains and the name servers authoritative for the requested zone.
DNSWalk generates an HTML report detailing its findings, which can be used to compare against other queries. This comparison helps pinpoint where a DNS server might be encountering issues or “getting lost” in the query process.
247OnCall
This API is designed for integration with Digium Switchvox PBX systems, enabling the XYMon system to interface with the PBX to initiate alert calls to a list of technicians on a rotation schedule. It allows full control over the technicians, scheduling, rotation, and alarms configured on the PBX.
When an alarm is triggered, the API sends a request to the PBX, prompting it to place a call to the on-call technician in the rotation. The call is routed back to the PBX, where an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system picks up the call. The IVR then verifies whether the recipient is acknowledging the alert. This acknowledgment is recorded, along with details such as the responder’s identity and the number of attempts required to answer the call.
MAGMA
Magma is a web-based front-end plugin for the XYMon server and web portal. It provides a user-friendly interface that allows XYMon users to easily add and manage hosts, rules, monitors, and alerts within a XYMon system. Magma integrates seamlessly with the XYMon base web server, offering a straightforward way to perform these tasks through simple web pages.
Metrics Manager
Metrics Manager is a web application designed to generate graphs and statistics from ConnectWise PSA, Kaseya VSA, and Labtech RMM. This platform is utilized to monitor business performance from sales, technical, and management perspectives.
It is built to facilitate in-depth reporting, including project progress, ticket tracking, employee hours and task management, sales team statistics, and development team project tracking. Metrics Manager is developed using PHP, with data managed through MySQL and MSSQL databases.
Hog Trek
Hog Trek is a website and iPhone app development project utilizing Geo Tracking and MapKit Classes for iOS. This project marks a new development path for me, as it introduces me to Object-Oriented C Programming through the use of Xcode.
The app enables motorcyclists to track their riding routes and upload that routing information to the web as sharable objects. These shared routes contribute to a community route database, which is built from the collective submissions of the app’s members.
MAG Server & BBWin GUI (squidworks.net)
BBwin GUI is a front end configuration tool for BBWin. BBwin is a monitoring agent for windows that returns health and operational data to the XYMon, AlertOnFailure or MAG management servers.
MAG Server, short for Monitoring and Graphing server, is built on a standard CentOS Linux system, featuring Apache, MySQL, and PHP. This server is equipped with a customized XYmon server and a pre-installed Cacti SNMP graphing application, making it fully operational and ready to use from the moment the VM is launched.
We offer a range of VM platforms and CPU types to accommodate various needs. Additionally, MAG Server provides a straightforward web interface that includes a helpful support section and comprehensive setup instructions.
AlertOnFailure (www.alertonfailure.com)
AlertOnFailure is designed to support the Big Brother client protocol, offering system administrators a straightforward and cost-effective solution to achieve System-Wide Hosting and Alerting Services without significant investment of time or money. IT managers will appreciate this streamlined approach to managing system events.
AlertOnFailure is fully compatible with BBDisplay and BBPager services, as well as user-hosted clients such as BBWin, Big Brother, Hobbit, and XYmon. This solution enhances and builds upon these existing services, ensuring they are accessible online, anytime, from anywhere in the world.
On Site Solutions
We are excited to announce the upcoming availability of the AOF-4-EnterpriseVMware appliance, designed for deployment within your corporation’s networks. This powerful solution brings the full capabilities of the AlertOnFailure monitoring platform directly to your data center.
Looking for a backup BBDISPLAY to complement your onsite monitoring solution? We’re here to help by serving as a reliable backup monitoring and alerting system. No matter the role you require, AlertOnFailure is ready to support your needs with unmatched flexibility and reliability.
Thumb My Web is a free archive of website thumbnails that can be used on any private or commercial website! If the desired website is not already in our archive, simply add it, and within approximately one hour (depending on the average queue size), it will be available for download or for linking and embedding directly to your website.
Thumb My Web utilizes a Virtual Frame Buffer to load a version of Firefox into RAM as a desktop application, while leveraging image tools from the GD and ImageMagick libraries. Images are captured and created virtually, then saved to a file and maintained in an SQL archive—all without requiring an actual desktop environment on the LAMP system.
We integrate an ad product called BritePics from AdBrite, which places images inside a Flash container. This allows images to be easily copied to other sites and embedded as needed. The Flash container includes built-in ad space, enabling advertisements to accompany the images when webmasters and bloggers use them in their content. A single image could appear on hundreds of different sites, complete with our ad space, achieving multiple layers of monetization for a single asset.
Graph My Website is the official off shoot of quantumleaps. Refined the tools and index and put a more meaningful name to the site. A clean design it gets the job done nicely.
www.brothersnoir.com
Wordpress design
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detectives (i.e. The Maltese Falcon). The ’70s morphed American Noir
into a darker “Neo-Noir” with such films as Chinatown,
and then bleed into a variety of other writing genres to create…
Modern American Noir
In this 1st series, Brothers Noir Publications Future Streams
Company
www.asnas.com
ASNAS, which stands for Advanced Secure Network Access System, was once a cutting-edge security product built with a hardened Linux kernel. This project represented my first attempt at creating a Linux appliance entirely from scratch—specifically using Linux from Scratch. By compiling the entire system from source, I was able to audit every component thoroughly.
ASNAS was later acquired by a company in Melbourne, which tasked us with further improving the product. Beyond its initial functionality as a router/firewall, we enhanced it with IPSEC VPNs, traffic control, and IDS/IPS features. We also automated many of the new processes and introduced a redesigned administrative interface.
This new version was rebranded as Sabrnet, which included built-in compatibility with Big Brother/Hobbit monitoring systems, as well as its own onboard graphing and charting tools. In addition to overseeing the development, I managed the support system, providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for the product line.
The My Web admins was a simple yellow pages or system wide favorites list of all your web URL locations you use as a company. This was geared towards technical administrators and the ever growing number of web admins they now deal with. They could group different admins in to areas so to make it easy to find.
This was a design done for a Dog food Treats baker here in Melbourne. It was designed in PHP and used a open source shopping cart and MySql. It was hosted on Linux and Apache at BlueGator.
QL, Quantumleaps is a free network tools web
that provide custom built network tests and monitoring service. QL provides 24 hour real time monitoring and graphing of websites, DNS servers and IP addresses on the Internet free. The revenue stream comes from the Ad placement and keywords the site uses as part of it’s SEO. These Meta values help place high cost keywords on our site to attract higher paying advertising that is relevant to the key users of the site.
ACES, short for Advanced Computer Engineering Services, was a full-service computer help desk and support company. I was responsible for designing the company’s main look and feel and managing its content. The site was developed using ColdFusion and MS Access, and it was hosted on a Windows IIS server.
