Projects

Git Committed May 2012

Allows employers to easily review a candidate's GitHub contributions by seeing all their recent commits on one screen.

D3 for Mere Mortals July 2011

A from-the-ground-up tutorial for the D3.js visualization library, starting with the basics of SVG and ending with a custom visualization you won't find in a charting library.

BBY Scan September 2010 – February 2011

A platform for registering and tracking QR Codes for Best Buy. QR Codes powered by this system were rolled out to every Best Buy store in the country, driving measurable revenue traffic to the mobile web site. At peak, it handles hundreds of thousands of scans a day. The BBY Scan project won the Chairman's Innovation Award in 2010 and I wrote a guest post for the Google App Engine blog about it.

FanChatter 2008 – 2010

I built FanChatter's Scoreboard Photo Sharing product, which was used by the Minnesota Twins, University of Oklahoma, and others. We were accepted to Y Combinator (Summer 2009), where we built a embedded chat tool providing sign up with Facebook and Twitter.

Testing is Overrated July 2008

At RubyFringe, I spoke about the weaknesses of developer testing and how to improve software quality with other techniques like code reviews and usability tests. It was named one of the 5 great Ruby talks of 2008. Slides, my handout, and video are available.

Receiving Email with Ruby May 2008

A PeepCode book on how to handle email with Ruby (circa 2008), co-authored with Mike Mondragon.

Follow Cost September 2008

A fun little app that tells you how annoying someone will be to follow on Twitter before you make the commitment. Written with B.J. Hess.

Tumblon 2008 – 2009

With a talented team of contractors, I built tumblon.com, a web app for parents with young children. Features include a development tracker, blog, photo and video uploads, and a database of developmentally appropriate toys and books.

Ancept Media Server REST Interface 2006

Back before REST was cool, I convinced my colleagues at Ancept that we should adopt it for our product's web services API instead of SOAP. I specified and managed the development of the API, then wrote extensive developer documentation for integrators.