Hifi House Group included two divisions: a high-end consumer division, and a commercial av systems integrator division. They were looking for each division to have its own, independent site, while maintaining a strong relationship between the divisions. In the end, they chose a single design and we alternated the color schemes between divisions. I also [...]
I was working with a PEAR package in a PHP 5.2 environment. Naturally, I was getting some E_STRICT errors. I like to have all my code strict compliant, so I always develop with E_STRICT turned on. I wasn’t about to start changing the PEAR code, so I thought I’d just use error_reporting and disable E_STRICT [...]
There is a bug in WordPress’s plugin activation related to variable collisions. When WordPress activates the plugins it executes them within the scope of the activate_plugin function. The problem is that this scope is full of other variables that can collide with your plugin’s top scope.
Tribalco provides telecommunications services and integrated solutions to government agencies and private sector clients across the globe. They needed a simple but professional website to support their marketing efforts.
The organizers of the annual First Run Film Festival were looking to move their content online. The NYU Tisch School of the Arts needed to publish film details, filmmaker bios and screening schedule for 100+ films. I developed a custom content management system that made last minutes changes to the schedule a breeze to manage. [...]
The new e-commerce site for Mighty Leaf Tea (Canada) was a ground-up, custom re-build to replace their old system. Specializing in high-quality products for the tea fanatic made it import for site administrators to have rich tools for describing and categorizing items. Building a custom application also allowed us to tailor the order fulfillment to [...]
Project » Publishers Clearing House ScratchCards
Selected Work
| php, web services
PCHScratchCards.com was developed for Publishers Clearing House by Intuwin and Core Industries as an online scratch-and-win game where players have a chance to win prizes instantly. I was hired by Core Industries as the lead developer for the game playing engine. Some of the key features included: High performance under significant load (over 5 million [...]
1% for the Planet is a non-profit that provides support to companies who want to make donations to environmental organizations. Another project for Core Industries, 1% for the Planet’s website is both an important marketing tool and a platform for performing critical administrative tasks. I implemented simple, yet powerful business applications that allow 1% for [...]
The new MKPCap.com site, launched in the December 2009, provides site administrators with a flexible content management system. Site administrators can create both free-form content, as well as specialized content for cases where more complex layouts and behaviors are required. The new site features a powerful permissions system, supporting fine-grained control over user access to [...]
The Problem It’s a common one. You have a project that requires uploaded images. These images need to be displayed in different layouts at different sizes based on the context (ex: large on a detail page, thumbnail on the list page, etc…) In the past I would have encapsulated these sizes in an image class [...]