- Projects -

This is an overview of some of the sites I have created for school, for fun, and assorted extra-curricular projects. My professional work is mostly listed on LinkedIn, and not here. In some cases, clicking on the screenshot will bring you to that page, or to a description of how that page was created.

  • Not My Phone

    July 2019

    I really wanted to stop sleeping next to my phone, so I built a bedside clock that shows critical push notifications.

    Technologies
    javascript react cloudflare workers raspberry pi

  • Larkspur Ferry Schedule

    February 2019

    I really wanted a mobile-friendly version of the larkspur ferry schedule, and I also wanted to learn React. This helped me accomplish both.

    Technologies
    React

  • Four Feelings

    May 2013

    Human emotions can be boiled down to four feelings. This is a simple, mobile-friendly counter to let you track your feelings throughout the day. When you think of it, open the page and click the green box representing the feeling you're feeling right at that moment. At the end of the day, look back at the totals and see how you felt. It's an interesting exercise that might surprise you.

    Technologies
    HTML5 LocalStorage AngularJS

  • Pivotal Tracker Reports

    June 2011

    I've really enjoyed Pivotal Tracker as a development tool, but generating reports for businesspeople to see high-level status was not possible. I built this tool using Sinatra and the Pivotal Tracker API to generate reports that could be emailed out on a weekly basis. They can group by label (to see where we're spending the most resources) and highlight in red or green if we're resolving ore stories than we're creating over a given time period.

    Technologies
    Ruby Sinatra

  • Get Exceptional

    June 2009

    Moving from Ruby to C# left me missing some of the great tools the Ruby ecosystem had relied on, including hosted error tracking. Exceptional was one of those tools, and it did not have a .NET compatible client, so I wrote one and open-sourced it on Codeplex.

    Technologies
    C#

  • Jokewars

    November 2008

    Written with Ruby on Rails and MySQL, allows people to battle two jokes together. Uses full RESTful-routing and REST-based techniques. Also developed a Facebook app with the facebooker plugin.

    Technologies
    Ruby Rails MySQL REST

  • Patriots Maps

    March 2008

    This Google Maps mashup plots the Patriots Fan Clubs across the world, and allows you to zoom in, and search for them. It uses the Google Maps API to generate the map, and the Geocoding API to look up the latitude and longitude of new clubs when they are created.

    Technologies
    ColdFusion Google Maps REST XML

  • Internet Connection Diagnostics

    January 2005

    There are a lot of great bandwidth testers out there (DSLReports, Speakeasy, etc.) but no free/open source solutions I could find. The problem with a hosted bandwidth tester is that your results are subject to their bandwidth. By having one of my own I can drop it on any computer and test the connectivity between them. This project is no longer under development, but I was looking to build more functionality into it, including traceroute utilities and other monitoring/troubleshooting tools… VoIP, QoS, etc. This utility is implemented using a Java Applet with a Swing UI, and it tests uploads by making calls back to a Servlet. It can therefore be conveniently packaged up in a WAR file and dropped into Tomcat as a webapp.

    Technologies
    Java Swing Applet

  • Delivery Scheduling

    December 2004

    Developed a system for scheduling deliveries of motor oil. It uses a DHTML-based front end for manually laying out the schedule in a drag-and-drop fashion. Delivery schedules are projected and arranged based on delivery and consumption history.

    Technologies
    Java JSP DHTML Spring MySQL

  • Book Prices

    February 2003

    This project was originally done as part of the Distributed Object Technologies course, implemented in both CORBA and RMI. I later rewrote it, and it is currently implemented as a web service running under Apache Axis. The concept is simple - there are plenty of price comparison sites, but in order to use them, you have to go visit them. In other words, you either have to do your shopping from their site, or shop at another site and then go to their site to find the product (shop twice). We wanted to create something whereby you can shop at your favorite site, then click a button and see prices at other stores. This application detects what product you’re looking at, then goes out to other retailers and finds their prices in real time (no database required).

    Technologies
    Java SOAP Apache Axis CORBA RMI

  • Carnegie Mellon Coursework

    August 2001

    A list of all the courses I took at CMU from 1997-2001

  • Court Reservation System

    May 2001

    Developed as part of the HCI project course, we built this site for the CMU Athletic Department. It allows students to reserve Racquetball, Squash, Tennis, and Spinning times.

    Technologies
    Java JSP CTL MySQL

  • GSIA MBA/MSIA Home Page

    March 2001

    This is a revamped version of the old front page for the GSIA’s MBA program. The site is used regularly by current students as a portal to different sources of academic information. In addition to development, I was also responsible for the design.

    Technologies
    HTML CSS

  • Love And Respect

    December 2000

    This site was for our senior Information Systems project course. It is currently online at loveandrespect.com. Our team worked with the client, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, to create an online presence for his business. We helped him formulate the ideas, architected the system, and implemented it completely.

    Technologies
    ASP XML Microsoft SQL Server

  • Auction Blitz

    November 2000

    For the Intro to Electronic Commerce class we created this site based on some research on auction theory. It is similar in format to ebay, but instead of one auction type we implemented three. It could theoretically replace the current CMU system misc.market because the “sealed bid” option allows people to trade goods instead of simply buying or selling them.

    Technologies
    ASP

  • Fatdeal

    November 2000

    This site was started as an independent study, but is no longer active at fatdeal.com. It allows online shoppers to look for coupons at their favorite stores. Member features allow people to store coupons in a “coupon wallet”, keep an eye on their favorite sites, and set up coupon alerts based on their preferences. Chalk this up as another failed dot-com.

    Technologies
    ASP Microsoft SQL Server

  • Album Greetings

    May 2000

    This was a project for the junior level information systems project course. It was an online photo album that allowed people to upload photographs, configure and manage multiple photo albums, and share these albums with friends by creating passworded albums.

    Technologies
    ASP Microsoft Access

  • IMC America

    February 2000

    This is the first site Bill and I did for an actual company, which was launched online at imcamerica.com. This was largely an exercise in information architecture defintion, followed by front-end coding and design.

    Technologies
    javascript HTML CSS

  • GSIA Job Offer Reporting

    January 2000

    This site was used by students at Carnegie Mellon's GSIA to report their job offers. Administrative features allow career center personnel to review and verify the offers, and receive nightly e-mail notifications about which students accepted which offers each day.

    Technologies
    javascript

  • Where Is Bob?

    January 2000

    This site was launched at whereisbob.com and began as a project for Web Business Engineering. It was an online game that allowed visitors to hunt around a map for this character named Bob. If they sign up for membership, they were able to earn points, keep statistics, and store the clues they picked up during the search.

    Technologies
    ASP Microsoft Access