Thanks for stopping by for a visit. I’m Jeff Porten; on various days of the week, I’m an Internet/Macintosh/business development consultant, database and web developer, writer, and entrepreneur.

Most of my consulting work these days is for the Association of Research Libraries and the Coalition for Networked Information. Over there we work with CommuniGate Pro, Apache, QuickDNS, and FileMaker Pro, all running on a fleet of Mac OS X Servers.

The rest of my client base is almost entirely small business and nonprofit, with a smattering of governmental. They are centered in Washington DC, but I keep a global footprint and work hours to match, with active and past projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Australia, give me a call.

I am an incurable serial entrepreneur, so I usually have a half-dozen ideas that I am percolating, incubating, and procrastinating. The most active of these is Plenarcast, a startup that provides Internet broadcasts of conferences and events. That business is run on WebCrossing 5.0 on a BSD Unix system for the live site, and on Macintosh OS X for development purposes. I’ll announce my other ventures here if and when they’re ready for prime time; unfortunately, many of them go the way of DC3Wireless, the brilliant wireless Internet idea that was shelved when T-Mobile announced they were outspending us by 100,000 to 1.

I was recently the CTO of a business that provided grassroots communications to Congress for the members of various businesses and nonprofits. That business, unfortunately, became a dot-com flameout, but I have retained the rights to the entire system, so contact me if you think you can put it to use. That was built using 4D and WS4D, with mailing list services under LetterRip Pro and SIMS.

I wrote a book a few years ago, and keep meaning to write a few more.

The family business is a candy store catering to diabetics. We didn’t have the time to process web orders, so the retail storefront is now offline, but you can still visit our bricks and mortar. That site was running on WebStar, FileMaker Pro, SIMS, and a few other software widgets, last time it was up.