BellLabs: Tomcat Insect Site
The Tomcat Insect Site was developed for Bell Labratories in the fall of 2009. This custom product catalog utilizes RadiantCMS with a highly customized extension that I created to allow for their home page to have it's JavaScript rotation. Having previously worked with Bell Laboratories the creation of this site went extremely smoothly. The end result is a beautiful product catalog/CMS hybrid showcasing Insect Control Products. Ajax drag and drop ordering of nearly all content on the site provides extreme flexibility during content display, and printer friendly style sheets allow for product pages to look good when printed.
Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, RadiantCMS, Ubuntu 8.04, Apache/Mongrel, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
My Involvement: Discovery, Project Management, Data Design, App Code, XHTML, CSS
Project Timeline: August 2009 - Current
Project Status: In production
ThedaCare: HRA
This fully dynamic system allows for user defined input parameters that feed a proprietary scoring engine to derive a "health score" for each registered user. An extremely extensive web and PDF report that details nearly every aspect of the particular employees health is provided for each employee in his/her personal portal. The overall goal of the application is to drive down the cost of health insurance for the participating companies by making their employees more aware of their health.
Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, rSpec, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Passenger, SQL Server 2005, Reporting Services, Windows Server 2003, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
My Involvement: Discovery, Data Design, App Code, In App Reports, Site Design, XHTML, CSS, Custom SQL/AR Queries, rSpec/selenium IDE Test Suites
Project Timeline: November 2008 - Current
Project Status: In production with ongoing development
J2flyDesign
J2flyDesign is a personal consulting business that I recently started. So far I've only had time to complete one project, Muhheconneew Press. Eventually I would like to grow the company enough to hire a partner and make a living running my own business.
Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, rSpec, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Passenger, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, Cron
My Involvement: Data Design, App Code, Photoshop Design, XHTML, CSS
Project Timeline: October 2008 - Current
Project Status: In production with ongoing development
Meetup When
I'm a member of the local ruby on rails group "The Madrailers". One of the things that seems ridiculous to me is what it takes to schedule a meeting. I realize there are a lot of people involved and that it's the coveted after business hours that we're limited to for the most part, but sending 30 emails around just didn't seem like a good solution to determining people's availability. That is why I created meetupwhen.com. The site is in it's infancy and it's open source and available on github, but I hope one day to approach the creators of meetup.com and see about integrating this as a service for their members.
Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Calendar helper plugin, rSpec, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Passenger, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
My Involvement: Data Design, App Code, Site design
Project Timeline: TBD
Project Status: In production with ongoing development
Muhheconneew Press: CMS
Muhheconneew Press is a non-proffit organization that requires a website to showcase their teaching curriculum. I created a CMS that allowed them to manage their site's content and just as easily administer their curriculum offerings. This is the first project I have completed under my consulting business J2flyDesign.
Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Passenger, sqlite3, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
My Involvement: Data Design, App Code, Client Driven Photoshop Design (they told me exactly how they wanted it to look), XHTML, CSS, printable XHTML order form
Project Timeline: 1 day in January 2009
Project Status: In production
Impromptu: CMS
CMS system for Eau Claire area a cappella group Impromptu.
Technologies Used: Ruby on Rails, Test::Unit, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Apache/Mongrel, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
My Involvement: Discovery, Project Management, Data Design, App Code, Photoshop Design, CSS, XHTML
Project Timeline: October 2006 - December 2006
Project Status: No longer an active site