About this site

My name is Peter Bengtsson and I'm a web developer.
This site is my notice board for things that go on in my head.

I currently work for Mozilla in California. There I work on the Webtools team which involves working on various tools that help the development of Firefox.

Virtually all of my work is Open Source and available on my Github account including this site itself.

Side projects

HUGEpic screenshot

HUGEpic

hugepic.io

This app combined Leaflet with Filepicker.io with Amazon S3 to let you upload massive pictures and draw annotations on them to be able to zoom in, pan and share specific regions without having to download the whole image. And it works great on mobile too!

All the code is open source and available here and it's a Tornado app that relies very heavily on RQ.

Around The World screenshot

Around The World

aroundtheworldgame.com

If you haven't already done so, check out my new game: Around The World which is my spare time project. You can read more about it here but the best thing is to just start playing and see if you like it.

US License Spotter screenshot

US License Plate spotter

uslicensespotter.com

It's for spotting out-of-state license plates in the US and tick them off on your smartphone.
This is a work in progress project. I have blogged out it first here and then here about the update. It's an ongoing project to try to build real mobile native apps from HTML and Javascript.
This is also my first ever project that actually uses Facebook's API to facilitate wall posts from the app.
The source code is here and it's a bit of a mess because it's after all just an ongoing experiment.

TooCoolForMe screenshot

Too Cool For Me?

toocoolfor.me

It started as a Bookmarklet so that when you're visiting twitter.com it appends, for each user you follow, whether they also follow you. Later, the most useful feature was the /everybody page where everyone you follow is split half between those who follow you and those that are too cool for you.
blogged about it here and source code is here.

Peterbe.com screenshot

Peterbe.com

peterbe.com

In 2012 I re-wrote this site from scratch. Being very fast was important to be and I've blogged about how I made the server-side and client-side fast.
The code to this site is open source and the source code is here.

DoneCal screenshot

DoneCal

donecal.com

This is a full HTML5 calendar. It's fast and simple and has a practical API.
I've blogged about it here and source code is here.

Tornado Gists

Tornado Gists

tornadogists.org

This is a supporting site for the Tornado Web Server project. It uses the Github API for authentication and for pulling down gists automatically.
The hosting of this project is actually done by a fellow Tornado contributor called Felinx Lee.
Blogged about it here and source code is here.

Kwissle

Kwissle

kwissle.com

My first real-time web game. The game is that you get paired up with another random player and you have to answer quiz questions as fast and accurate as possible. My first web app that let's Facebook, Twitter, Google, Persona all take care of the authentication.
I first blogged about it here when it was launched and here are the slides which I later presented at PyCon UK 2011.

Crosstips

Crosstips

crosstips.org

Crosstips first started as an experiment to do localization in Django. Namely, Swedish. So the first deployment was Krysstips.se (blogged about it here). This was also my first ever non-English project.
Not long after, I prepared the English (American and British) version and a friend helped me translate the French version too.
Source code available here and I've blogged about various aspects of it here.

TFL Cameras

TFL Cameras

tflcameras.peterbe.com

Using the recently published API from Transport from London I put together a Google Maps mashup that plots all the central London traffic cameras so you can easily see if your particular road is congested. This was my first project using client-side Geolocation.
Blogged about it here and the source code is here.

FWC Kungfu Mobile

FWC Kungfu Mobile

m.fwckungfu.com

This was my first pure mobile web site. It's for my Fujian White Crane Kung Fu Club that I trained with when I lived in London. This site uses a remote database connection and is heavily cached. It's built taylor made for mobile as it goes straight to the basic details you need.
I originally built it because I kept forgetting when various classes started and looking it up on a slow 3G connection was a pain.
The code is here and I blogged about when this was my first site to get 100 points on YSlow!.

Note: This list does not include any of the fun projects I'm workig on at work. These are all side-projects.
Also, most of these projects I'm not actively working on but they're all projects that are alive and hosted somewhere.