About

This website is a collection of my work as web site developer, from school to employment, over the course of the last five years.

The screenshot and quote on the homepage is from Valve’s Team Fortress 2 Meet the Engineer video. I was inspired by a Whiskey Media’s posting using a similar screenshot and thought about what I actually do as a web developer.

…I Solve Problems. Not problems like ‘What is beauty?’, because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems…

Building websites or any software is about solving problems, usually a lot of small ones. Once you break any complex task down it’s just a series of small problems that you haven’t solved yet.

However, showing your work as a developer or programmer can be hard. Short of view-source to show the client-side code you can’t really show anything. The code belongs to the client or your employer and even if you could post the code, would anyone want to look at it?

Screenshots of the website can be seen as this is what you see in your browser, and I made that; but they can be misleading and people can think that they are just designs.

So I need to make sure that screenshots are accompanied by talking about the technologies used and about the parts that I really liked doing.

Over the course of five years some projects never went live or died after completion or have just been updated since working on it. I’ve decided to include it all! Maybe I won’t have a screenshot for every project but I can still talk about explain any features that I remember working on.

And I need a portfolio of work for future employment opportunities.

All images are screenshots from the browser, either using print-screen or the Firefox add-on, Abduction!

Screenshots were taken after site launch or from the Internet Archive (after dying or changing). All screenshots are only from the front facing portions of the website (nothing that didn’t launch or requires a login that you can’t publically get).

The site uses WordPress, the JournalCrunch theme and hosted by HostGator.