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Site Description: C2 is a business conference that has multiple conferences per year across the world. I created multiple systems for the Montreal conference.

Programming: An accreditation system with staff/attendee badge printing, a partner platform for inviting attendees, and a voting interface for one of the Microsoft talks.

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Site Description: Vintage Experience is a large scale concert/event project for the Québécois artist Gregory Charles. A custom venue is built up in every city he performs specifically tailored towards the unique experience Gregory Charles creates. The show is audience driven, in that the audience members vote, answer questionnaires, and send chat message to Gregory Charles during the concert to shape what occurs.

Programming: I created all the software for this project ranging from the basic information website, to the software used by the audience to tailor the dynamic experience to their wishes, to the control software that is used to drive the show. I did all the front and back end layout and programming, including creating the HTML and images from PSDs given by the designer.

Site Description: Visitors vote on randomly generated “death matches” for the “most holiday” of 120 different icons. Real-time ranks are tabulated on the site’s crowdsourced leaderboard. (Press release)

Programming: I created the real time backend (via AJAX) for choosing and displaying the random matches, and keeping track of and tabulating votes. Systems were also put into place to help prevent cheating through mass or duplicate voting.

Site Description: A new technology I developed that uses RFID chips for more secure and much quicker entrance to venues. I will have a project page about this up at some point.

Programming: I was given the site’s layout in Photoshop to cut up along with instructions on how they wanted the popup menus to work. I also inserted and laid out all the content.

The photos page’s popup/overlay interface for viewing pictures was also quickly thrown together from scratch to match the designer’s notes.

Site Description: A learning language center in Montreal Canada.

Programming: I was given the site’s layout in Photoshop to cut up along with instructions on how they wanted the popup menus to work. I also inserted and laid out all the content, and created the scrolling flash logo.

Site Description: A pub in Drummondville Canada.

Programming: I created an interface that lets them update their daily restaurant specials menu. The menu renders to an image for the website and optionally sends to an opt-in subscription email list.

I didn’t do anything for this site’s layout.

Site Description: A holistic wellness center based in Howard County, Maryland. The business is co-founded by Carol Joy Loeb of Carol Joy Sings below.

Programming: For this website, I was given the site’s outer layout in photoshop to cut up for easy header/footer display on all pages. I also layed out all the content pages for them. Points of interest are:

• The integrated Google Maps applet which includes the ability to easily get directions.
• A very quick custom news posting system
• An appointments page that sends them requested appointment information, and alerts their cell phones.

Site Description: Karim Boulos is running as an incumbent independent candidate for the borough councillor position in a Canadian district.

Programming: This site was originally put together in Joomla, and was a bit of a mess because of it. I extracted all the Joomla pages, and turned it into a header/footer driven layout which dynamically displays text in English or French depending on the user’s choice. I also integrated many APIs for the site’s front page including:

• Yahoo (Finds the latest video from his channel and displays it)
• Twitter (Displays his most recent twitter posts)
• Blog (Extracts blog post information from an RSS feed to display the latest titles)

I also implemented a very quick custom comment book system from scratch.

Programming: Website was coded up 100% from scratch in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript with almost no (99.9%) reused code from the past for optimization.

See here (temporarily down) for more information.

Site Description: TicketPro is the largest ticket selling company for concerts, shows, events, etc in the world. I was originally hired by the Canadian branch to do a rebuild of their internal database system [see POSTGate] in C++, but they ended up getting in a crunch and badly needing website overhauls, so I ended up making a bunch of websites for them, mostly from scratch.

Programming: This one was a pretty big undertaking with a rather large and complex database. There is lots of custom JavaScript, especially for their content management systems to manipulate all the site data. All PHP and MySQL are optimized for heavy workloads, which occurs when tickets go on sale or events are announced. The main Flash programming for the site was the menu near the top to choose sections.

See Ticketpro Canada for more information on Ticketpro and the situation behind these sites.

Site Description: Each concert season there were packages to sell hotels along with event ticket that came with extra stuff, which is what these were for. Most of these were connected to live credit card processing centers.

See Ticketpro Canada for more information on Ticketpro and the situation behind these sites.

Site Description: Amp’d Mobile had free limited-ticket events which were pretty heavily advertised in the local areas they showed in.

Programming: The database was pretty simple in this one. User registration was required to sign up for the free tickets, which were dynamically printed with barcodes according to an XML template [example template].

See Ticketpro Canada for more information on Ticketpro and the situation behind these sites.

Site Description: A proprietary system that sends 2D barcodes (QRcode model 2) that are scannable as tickets to cell phones through MMS. Even though the system is completed and working, it never went live :-(.

I would like to put up a page to show this off for fun, but unfortunately, sending MMS messages cost money. I used Clickatell as a SMS gateway, as they were the only company that could do what we needed that also supported Canada. Note: Working with MMS was a pain in the ass.

See Ticketpro Canada for more information on Ticketpro and the situation behind these sites.

Programming: The programming for this site is a very simple news content management system that shows the news in a Flash applet.

Site Description/Programming: A very complex completely Flash based system used for looking up offices and businesses by area and information.

Site Description/Programming: A Notebook/Laptop store. The site layout was very dynamic, like how iGoogle is now.

Site Description: Carol Joy is a music therapist and her website outlines her practice and also contains information about her released audio CD.

Programming: The CD page includes a Flash applet I created that has real-time spectrum analyzer bars (as opposed to oscilliscope/sonograph output waves, which would just as easily be possible) while the music plays. This is somewhat unique as all other (that I have seen) sites on the web that have these bars are all repeating or random sequences that have nothing to do with the current audio playing.

 

Site Description: DASMaps provides aerial photography and photogrammetry services of the DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) area to the planning, design and engineering communities.

Programming: This site has a client login section that containes clients’ project’s progress and files. Logging in is done through normal web browser authentication.

There are 4 other admin interfaces: News management (which shows up in a Flash scroller), contact page management, portfolio (image groups and information) management, and which portfolios show up on the front page.

Site Description: Unlimited Visibility creates lighting designs for corporate theater, live entertainment, themed environments, trade-shows and special events.

Programming: Lots of Flash and PHP in this website, and probably the niftiest site design and programming I’ve worked on.

The site contains a portfolio (show) section, complete with admin interface, in which each show has text content and pictures. When inside a show’s page, the Flash animation shows just the images from the current show scrolling across it. When not inside a show’s page, 2 rows of 8 random images at half size are scrolled in opposite directions. The images inside the Flash scroll by themselves but can also be paused on mouse over, dragged, and clicked to open their full versions with information. Thumbnails of the photos are also viewable, all at once or by portfolio, randomly inside a “Photo Collection” section with custom mouse-over information.

The site also has 3 more admin interfaces: Contact page management, press section (news), and user section management, which contains cross referenced pictures.

I also added a new section to the website a few years after creation, which unfortunately is only accessible via login. In this section, the admin runs a script which iterates through all subdirectories under a master directory and creates thumbnails for all found images and movies, and then creates an index page for each of these subdirectories. This allows the admin to upload content to different directories at their leisure without having to worry about going through custom admin interfaces for upload and modification. When the generation script is run, thumbnails are only generated for new or updated content, determined by timestamps. When a thumbnail is clicked on an index page, the page is blurred out and the original video or image is overlaid and centered above, with links to the original content and the next and previous items. Two more index pages are also created during generation; one containing a list of all the subdirectories with links to their index pages, and a master page that shows all the thumbnails for all subdirectories separated by section.

Site Description: The website for the IT company I worked for, which mainly made web sites.

Programming: This site is very dynamic and smooth flowing. There are more content management systems than I care to remember including for the contact page, “Featured Customers”, “Testimonials”, and news (the news Flash on the front page is pretty nifty). Section information is displayed in a header Flash and allows you to go to higher sections (like the section information in the header of this site). The dynamic JavaScript menu is also pretty good.

The Mission Vision also contains a pretty Flash applet that the CEO was obsessive about me making; I’m not entirely sure why it was needed though. I programmed a lot of neat text effects for it.

Site Description: Website for Aikido of Plano (USAF Aikido Dojo). Included Member Section (see Aikido of Dallas)

Programming: There was also some interesting JavaScript layout effects including pictures that faded into each other.

Site Description: Hearse and limousine transportation services.

Programming: Not much to this site programming wise. There is an admin interface to enter customer testimonials that showed at random on the front page, and there was once a nifty reservation section but they stopped using it for some reason. Other admin interfaces includ contact page management and content specific auto-replies for emails (which uses CGI).

Site Description: Website for Aikido of Dallas (USAF Aikido Dojo).

Programming: We were commissioned to make a member section that could be used across all USAF Aikido sites which includes: Coming events/news script with Flash scroller for front page, individual member profiles with aikido rank information, searchable member directory, email a member [without giving email address], and announcements/news letters.

Site Description: Hearse and limousine selling services.

Programming: We actually made 2 versions of this website, the second one after they decided they didn’t like the first one too much a year or so later. The second version has both a high and low resolution version determined by JavaScript. The first version had a lease pricing calculator.

There are multiple admin sections, the main one being an interface to keep track of their stock. There was also an ActiveX control used at one point to control printing.

Site Description: Portal Design Services is a production design service company for the Event, Wedding Planning, Entertainment, and Lighting Industries whom aids designers in various aspects of design such as drafting, rendering, and visualizing.

Programming: I programmed a shopping cart for them for the 3D light rendering system they use (called “WYSIWYG”), but it looks to be no longer online. There is also a client system for file uploads which also creates/links to a FTP account.

Site Description: A chronicle of my experiences and tinkering/reverse engineering from early ’02 to early ’04 on an addictive yet horribly crappy MMORPG.

Programming: All programming is really simple stuff since this was when I was first learning PHP and JavaScript. I created the user counter which tracks total and unique hits by IP address and cookies. There is also some simplistic JavaScript for image swapping on different pages.

Site Description: My ancient NES emulator made in Visual Basic (which was made to prove the power and flexibility [not speed] of the language).

Programming: This was my very first experience with web programming so it was mostly combining and editing other people’s stuff that I found. The original JavaScript menu system only worked in IE and was pretty sloppy, so I recently updated it to work properly. I also installed multiple CGI Perl scripts including the user counter, random quote “Message of the Day” script, news [newspro], and poll.