Web Development Projects

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  • Beginner's Guide to SEO screenshot
    2010
    Wordpress, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, JavaScript, jQuery, Git
    Web Developer
    Urban Influence was hired to rebrand and illustrate the Beginner's Guide, resulting in this mountain of XHTML and CSS.
  • Don Allaire Sheriff screenshot
    2010
    Wordpress, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, JavaScript, jQuery, Git
    Web Developer
    Campaign site for a prospective Sheriff in Oregon. My first Wordpress site.
  • Stone Law Group screenshot
    2010
    PHP, XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, JavaScript, jQuery, Git
    Web Developer
    Brochure site for an Urban Influence client. I really like Chaun's graphic design on this one, even though I had to jump through a lot of XHTML/CSS hoops to implement it in a way even IE6 could understand.
  • 43 Places screenshot
    2008 - 2009
    Flash, ActionScript 2.0, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, Ajax, MySQL, Social Networking
    Web/Flash Developer
    My first pro Flash feature! Created an image browser/cropper with ActionScript 2.0, in addition to standard Rails development work as part of the Robot Co-op's 43 Places redesign.
  • 43 Places screenshot
    2005 - 2009
    Social Networking, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SVN, Javascript, XHTML, Ajax, MySQL
    Web Developer
    The travel and urban exploration analogue to 43 Things.
  • 43 People screenshot
    2006 - 2009
    Social Networking, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SVN, Javascript, XHTML, Ajax, MySQL
    Web Developer
    The socializing analogue to 43 Things/Places, plus digital lifestyle aggregator.
  • Lists of Bests screenshot
    2006 - 2009
    Social Networking, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SVN, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Ajax, MySQL
    Web Developer
    We bought Bill Turner's list-making site and absorbed it into our network of social networking sites.
  • All Consuming screenshit
    2006 - 2009
    Social Networking, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SVN, Javascript, XHTML, Ajax, MySQL
    Web Developer
    We absorbed Erik Benson's cataloguing site into the suite of Robot Co-op sites, rewriting it in the process.
  • Should Do This screenshot
    2007 - 2009
    Social Networking, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SVN, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Ajax, MySQL
    Web Developer
  • Todd Jannausch screenshot
    2009
    PHP, XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, jQuery, JavaScript, SVN
    Freelance Developer and UI Designer
    Currently under development. Portfolio site for documentary photographer Todd Jannausch. I'm taking his recent documentary project and wrapping it in a jQuery/JavaScript slideshow that will allow him to intersperse images and textual elements.
  • Animale screenshot
    2009
    Ruby, Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, Web Standards, SVN
    Freelance Developer
    Currently under development. Taking a site originally built entirely in flat HTML and porting it into Rails to make maintenance and development easier and more fun for myself and the proprietor.
  • PCNW screenshot
    2007 - Present
    PHP, XHTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, MySQL
    Pro Bono Freelance Developer
    I'm keeping their dying patient of a website on life support while awaiting their branding redesign. Once that's done and a graphic design is finalized, I'll modernize the code and structure of the site. Meanwhile I've created automated methods of posting content that gets updated regularly, like the rotating gallery exhibits and quarterly class listings.
  • pugetive.com
    pugetive.com screenshot
    2002 - Present
    Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SVN, XHTML, CSS, Web Standards
    Amateur Solo Project
    Gone meta! The domain name comes from the handle I coined when creating my first online account in 1994. I merged "Puget Sound" and "fugitive", nodding to my recent escape from the East Coast and arrival in Seattle. In the years since, the only non-me-related Google result I've discovered used the word in reference to the herbal remedy Senna Leaves:
    Effective pugetive, even for chronic constipation.
    So it goes.
  • 2007
    Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, SVN, XHTML, DNS, Web Services
    Amateur Solo project
    If I was going to go through the trouble of building my own photography portfolio site, I decided I might as well generalize it and offer it up to my photography friends for their use too, so I turned it into a free public site. It runs on top of Flickr's API.
  • NaSoAlMo screenshot
    2006 - 2008
    Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SVN, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, Javascript
    Amateur Solo Project
    I participated in 2005 and took over organizing the NaSoAlMo challenge the following year. The site as I built it is no longer extant; NaSoAlMo and its website are now in somebody else's capable hands.
  • amp ))) a music project [defunct]
    a music project screenshot
    1999, 2005
    OO Perl, mod_perl, MySQL, FreeBSD, HTML, CSS, Web Standards, XHTML 1.0 Strict, Javascript, MVC
    Amateur Solo Project
    My pet project at home. We had a joke at Amazon that a standard interview question for web development candidates should be "describe how your mp3 server works". Mine started as a mammoth procedural CGI script in Perl and ended as a cleanly organized MVC app running via mod_perl. After iTunes came around I even converted their design to CSS and wrapped my site in it. Making it pixel-pefect, valid strict XHTML and cross-browser compliant all at the same time was what they call in technical jargon, "a bitch".
    Site is now officially gone. iTunes smart playlists handle most of the personalization features I liked, Simplify Media handles streaming over the internet from home without having to run a webserver, and the hard drive on my iPhone can now hold most of my favorite songs anyway. Fun while it lasted!
  • Cellar Homebrew screenshot
    1995 - 1998
    HTML, HTTP, FTP, C, CGI, HomeSite, Photoshop, Windows, Unix
    Webmaster (sole developer, designer, and sysadmin).

    Working as self-appointed webmaster for this retail store purveying home brewing and winemaking supplies, I first duplicated the entire mail-order catalog as flat text files in monospaced font, including a "contact us" form that allowed people to request an order. That pride and joy can be perused online, including a still-functioning <blink> tag! As charmingly naive as it was, that first version was actually stolen hook, line, and sinker by a competing store, much to the flattery and bewilderment of the boss and I. I was allowed to write my first ever cease and desist letter.

    A self-taught developer without prior Unix experience, I recall believing that each internet application created an exclusive tunnel to the internet, leading to a development regimen something like this:

    1. Open HomeSite
    2. Edit HTML page on local Windows machine
    3. Open FTP client
    4. Transfer HTML file
    5. Close FTP client
    6. Open browser
    7. Refresh page
    8. Close browser
    9. ...and so on...

    Eventually I'd automated the creation of catalog pages and built a shopping cart system using CGI scripts written in C. Suspecting that I could upgrade to a skilled labor salary, I applied at Amazon.com, where I landed my first white-collar job.