He develops and maintains Xataface, an open source framework for building data-driven web applications, and has contributed to many other open source projects, both in documentation and code.

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These concepts made building open-source projects from code much easier. Before that stage, Fox said, "I distinctly remember the first time I was actually able to build an open-source project.