Recent Projects

  • Tall Ships Tacoma

    Tall Ships Tacoma Custom content management system, volunteer registration, mailing list. Site design by PHAROS Interactive. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and Ajax, MySQL, RESTful development, and Web hosting.

  • Kandahar Trading Company

    Kandahar Trading Company Business process analysis, order and shipment processing with Overstock.com and Endicia Dazzle integration, custom content management system, product catalog, site design, Web hosting, Google Apps for email. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and Ajax, MySQL, and RESTful development.

  • Island Theatre

    Island Theatre Customized Radiant content management system, schedule management, photo gallery, Web hosting, and Google Apps for email.

  • Fremont Fair

    Fremont Fair 2007 Volunteer registration form, data collection, and other technical consultation. Subcontracted by The Workshop. PHP.

 

In Progress

  • The Picture Project

    The Picture Project Site design, custom content management system, product catalog with PayPal shopping cart, photo gallery, and and Web hosting.

  • Top Secret

    Top Secret Projects I've got a couple of projects in the works that I can't speak about yet as I've signed non-disclosure agreements. I'm very excited about them and I'll blog about them when we're ready to go public later this year.

 

Consulting

PHAROS Interactive LLC
Technical consultation and coding for various projects, including Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and third party libraries like Scriptaculous and Prototype, CSS, source control, and agile development practices.
Stolee Communications
Software, productivity, and Web strategy.
The Workshop
Technical consultation including security, use of Plesk, options for email and Web hosting.

 

Open Source Contributions

Recaptcha
The ReCaptchaClient abstracts the ReCaptcha API for use in Rails applications to prevent spam submissions on Web forms. I did some test cleanup and added additional code to style the form widget.
Radiant CMS
Radiant is a lightweight, top notch content management system developed by John Long. I submitted a small patch to the reorder extension.
Book erratas
Numerous patches submitted around code errors in books, including Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Java books by O'Reilly Press, Apress, Pragmatic Programmers Beta Books, and Sun Press. I used to write technical documentation and perform technical reviews at Adobe for Adobe Press, Adobe Magazine, and the online support documents.