Mekki Portrait

Mekki MacAulay Abdelwahab

B.Eng., B.A., M.App.Sc., P.Eng

Companies and Projects

Professional Associates

Associations and Networks

Dreamhost

Selected Projects

Cleantext.org
Featured on BoingBoing!
Cleantext.org is a collaboration with Ben Zanin that takes chunks of text and tidies up the plain text into something more suitable for a typesetting application to process. It is based on an idea tweeted by Cory Doctorow that we ran with. It is in continuous development to implement newly requested features.

OpenSpace Solutions
2007 Technology Venture Challenge, Semi-finalist
2007 Wesley Nicol Business Plan Competition
Open Space Solutions bridges the gap between businesses and educational institutions and virtual spaces by helping them test new strategies on a novel customer base, enabling them to gather information on what their customers want and how to effectively deliver it, both in virtual worlds and in their real world offerings. We help them understand how to stay ahead of the curve and adapt to the new ways their customers want to interact with them as virtual worlds continue to evolve by analyzing trends as they emerge, and assessing what products and services their customers are willing to pay for.
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AVS (Auto Versioning System)
This program is geared towards that painful task of retrieving older versions of documents that have been deleted, overwritten, or undesirably modified and not properly backed up on offline systems. The AVS will provide versioning without massive increase in hard drive space requirements. When it detects that there has been a modification to a file, it runs an RSYNC pass on the file against the old backup version and generates Deltas of the changes made. The old backup is then deleted and a new one is created. As such, at each modification, only the Delta is conserved instead of a full version of the file. These Deltas will then be tracked by the AVS, and log files generated.
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The MEKS (MekTek Effecient Kaching System)
2005 Technology Venture Challenge, Semi-Finalist
2005 Wesley Nicol Business Plan Competition, $3000 Prize Winner
A caching system that allows its clients to drastically reduce the amount of data they download from the Internet. By leveraging the data in the internal network, our system creates a giant distributed cache that only downloads from the Internet information that cannot be found within the network. For average web traffic, the system can reduce the amount of data downloaded by up to 98%, with the same or better performance.
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