The Motley Fool strives to be "The World's Greatest Investing Community." It is one of the web's original startups. Working on a small team, I was involved in multiple redesigns of the public-facing section of the site.
Major Features:
- Concurrent, multi-variant testing system
- XSL-based templating system
- About 4 million unique visitors a month
Army Times features exclusive, in-depth news and analysis about career, pay and benefits and issues impacting soldiers. With a team of two designers the site and its four sister sites were developed in six weeks.
Major Features:
- Based on Armed Forces Journal framework
- Database-driven page metadata
- One-button content uploading for editorial staff
Armed Forces Journal is the leading monthly magazine for officers and leaders in the United States military community. Working with a designer we completed this site from concept to launch in less than five weeks.
Major Features:
- Content parsed from XML
- Static pages are built from XML and cached
- Templating framework allows for easy changes
Jihad On You is your online destination for declaring holy wars. A project designed and built by
Dan Stapleton and myself over a long weekend, it ended up on
TechCrunch.
Major Features:
- Home-grown ORM, pagination, templating and comments
- MVC in PHP. Yes, I said it.
- Mostly user-generated content (i.e., possibly offensive)
Defense News is the professional news source for the world's defense decision makers. The task was to modify the site to meet new ad sizes without changing the current look and feel of the site.
Major Features:
- Table-less layout
- Enlarged ad sizes (advertising considered this a feature)
- Ability to change all ad sizes easily (for next time)
Knowledge
- Languages: PHP, Javascript, Ruby, Python, C#
- Data: SQL (mysql, t-sql, postgres), NoSQL (couch, friendly)
- Servers: Apache, Nginx, IIS, Postfix, Sendmail
- Systems: *nix, Mac, Windows, Novell, HP-UX
- Other: XHTML, HTML5, CSS, XML, Regular Expressions, ASP.NET