Projects

Posted in a semi recent to oldest order.

MagMa Bug Smasher(2009)

Project MagMa is a team of game developers that I have worked with over the years. They did the game programming and I did the web programming. One of the members said they needed a more efficient way of tracking bug information instead of using the discussion boards. This but tracking system is integrated into the PHPBB3 authentication system so that users didn’t have to log into a separate system. It supports several user levels and makes use of the PHPBB3 admin rank for its own administration tools. It allows developers to track status updates via the web or email. It allows users to post pictures or files that could assist the developers in recreating the bug and fixing it. It has a commenting system and also lets developers assign ownership of a bug. The commenting system allows users to leave comments that only developers can see. All of this uses PHP of course and a MySQL database. This project will continue to be updated in the future with requested features.

 

Emily Breer(2009)

Emily has some amazing artistic talent and asked me to help develop her a website to put up her movies and information. This was back in December of 2007. I flew to New York to meet with her and discuss how she wanted the site designed and implemented. I developed a CMS allowing her to upload her comics, add news, and upload movies. Here in 2009 I got back in touch with her and we updated the site to allow visitors to leave comments for Emily and also revamped the archive system. We also changed the main page to display her comic instead of her news articles. Previously you could only see older comics by visiting the archive, now you can navigate them from the main page using previous and next buttons.

 

Battlewatch(2009)

Another perl port! This site was used a long time ago to coordinate games over TCP/IP. It tracked time, game information, and allowed the creator to update the information using a passkey and not requiring them to have a user login. The system used flat files to store the information. This was all updated to use PHP and MySQL getting rid of the old flat files. This was a short project, something was broken and now it works.

 

Fire Tree(2009)

I had some free time and put together a file tree system that allowed easy browsing of specified file directories using PHP. I plan on using this in a later project when I get a chance. It allows you to click through directories and use a back button to go back up the directory listings. I had to set security features to make sure users couldn’t go above the assigned home directory. A “todo” is to update it to support more special characters.

 

TUSK Medical Network(2009)

TUSK Network is an ongoing project which information can’t be shared about just yet. Development of a CMS back end, Interactive flash landing page, and many more features that cant be disclosed just yet. I’ll flesh this out once it it completed. Launch is planned first quarter of 2010.

 

Rhino Medical(2009)

When I arrived back from China I started working on some projects with CK Design Agency. For Rhino Medical I put together a job board using PHP and MySQL. There is an administrative back end allowing them to add, edit, delete new job postings. I also prepared and imported the copy for the site into this new design layout. Minor HTML and CSS adjustments for his portion of the project.

 

uDogs Forums(2008)

For many years I have managed and updated these forums. This is a tool used by a group of friends to communicate between several different games played among them. Originally started in 1999 using an old BBS system it was upgraded a couple years later to a perl based BBS. Another couple years and we updated it to PHPBB I believe in 2002. We have moved it from a couple servers porting from databases. Overall I only mention it here because PHPBB is a very popular discussion board system used and supported by most hosting providers.

 

HAHmpls.org(2007)

This was for an Interactive Media Design volunteer project at The Art Institutes International Minnesota. At The Art Institutes across the nation IMD students worked on a single website for a non-profit organization whom had their application approved for needing a website redesign. Homless Against Homelessness or HAH had only a coming soon page for their website. Their organization specializes in helping homeless people find places to live and to expand their resources.

We had a team of five students and an instructor and developed a website based on the hardcopy brochures and newsletters that HAH supplied. This project was completed in three hours and gave them a fully functional database driven website to assist in expanding their organization. This was a great project and I enjoyed working with some great guys, kudos to their ambitions.

 

Portfolio Winter 07(2007)

Yet another portfolio website for The Art Institutes International Minnesota. Again this project was build around the illustrator images created by a student for the mailer. This time the site was done in flash and included features such as dynamically loaded images via an xml file to make adding students easier. I also had to create a small pagination script for the Interior Design graduates page in order to get them all displayed.

The project was fun, but due to time constraints I believe we will be switching to a static page that we just load everything into instead of developing a website every quarter.

 

Portfolio Fall 06(2006)

Another portfolio show website for The Art Institutes International. This project’s design was built around the print mailer displayed on the left side of the page.

At first I photoshoped a new dashboard into the lower right side but content was pushing it so I removed it. So I went with a pixel drag and organized content around that. I custom built the buttons based on the AC vent.

 

Summer Teen Workshop 2007(2006)

Summer Teen Workshop is a program that The Art Institutes International Minnesota uses to give local and surrounding state high school students a chance to preview life at the school.

I designed and developed this website using pictures taken from the previous year’s event and some student work.

I added a hint of flash to randomly display those pictures. Edit: The Art Institutes of Colorado contacted me and wanted to use this as a template for their Summer Studio (different name, same gist) website. I redid all of the copy they sent and added different graphics.

 

Portfolio Summer 06(2006)

This project was the first of an on going series of portfolio websites. It started late in the quarter and ended up using a pre-existing template.

My direct development was with the site layout, organizing the information submitted by faculty and students, and presenting graduate biographies to be approved.

 

Integritynotary.com(2006)

I did not do any graphic design work on this website. This was another Origin3 project for back end programming.

I was contracted to develop a rating system to rate customer service, member management functions, admin applications, and some minor debugging of existing code. The project lasted a couple weeks, completing requests from the client and then developing new features and tweaks toward the end of the project.

 

Holdstillamerica.com(2006)

I did not do any graphic design work on this website. This was another Origin3 project where I was contracted to design a back end application that stored uploaded user images, presented them in a gallery, combine images with products to be placed in a shopping cart. I also setup the credit card secure payment.

It was a great project and I enjoyed working on it. It was refreshing after the previous debugging project.

 

Famekeeper.com(2006)

I did not do any design work on this website. I was contracted by Origin3, a company out of Utah to do some PHP and MySQL work for this client. I mainly did alot of debugging with the client’s purchased website software that functioned simular to Myspace.com’s.

I created messaging systems, rating systems, added profile functions requested by the client.