Selected projects
An all-Flash site with an XML backend. The site is designed to showcase this real estate company's
properties and includes videos, dynamic listings for multi-million dollar vacation homes,
and a live webcam.
This site uses standards-compliant HTML, cross-browser DHTML courtesy of
jQuery, and a fun browser back button
hack in the jobs section to provide a usable,
progressively enhanced experience for
prospective clients.
For this community-based collaborative art site, I was asked to enhance the existing functionality and UI by adding various improvements such as a folksonomy,
ratings and commenting ability. To do so, I used PHP and MySQL, plus AJAX for the interface components.
This was a downloadable suite of games done for Nick Jr. As lead programmer, not only was I responsible for overseeing 3 other
programmers, and making all technical decisions, I also had a hand in QA, and final tweaks to gameplay.
Using
mProjector, I created full-screen downloadable toy that's cross-platform,
performs well, and was fun to create. Especially challenging was writing routines to make sure that only the relevant parts of the screen
were updated on each frame.
This was the number one most popular game on the Disney Channel web site when it was launched, breaking game pageview records for that
site. In building the game I utilized 3D math and camera systems. The positions of all elements on stage are stored as absolute positions, but then
displayed as relative to a camera, making scrolling and changing viewpoints very easy.
This project was challenging due to Disney requiring that it be playable by users whose machines had, at the low end, a 500mHz machine
with 256mb of memory. At the same time, it needed a fast, accurate physics engine. Achieving both goals meant using a grid to cut down on
collision tests, and a bunch of actionscript optimizations.
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