Fakin’ It

Found this track recently while digging around backup dvds of old projects.  Not sure what this was for but I remember winging it for the most part (and there’s certainly some flubs in there).  For some reason bits of it reminds me of Coil.  

Michael Jackson, Music, and Using What You Got

The King of Pop must’ve been a fantastic, musician, right? An entertainer since he was 7 who had performed for millions, recorded a slew of albums and topped the charts for years must’ve been an accomplished musician, correct? Turns out that even though he could dabble on keyboards and guitars he couldn’t read nor write…

Bizarre: #Comcast #Xfinity Blocking Access to GoDaddy IPs?

Very strange; I couldn’t access the school lunch application I programmed for NicholasMarkets (www.nicholasmarkets.com) and I originally thought that the website was down, but now it seems that I’m unable to access the site because I’m being blocked in some manor. PING www.nicholasmarkets.com (50.62.255.95): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for…

BatteryPOP

You know that old adage that the cobbler’s children have no shoes? Well, it basically describes when we’re so busy providing for clients that we don’t have time to take care of our own needs; thus this website.  I’ve been thinking of doing a complete overhaul, moving work items into a portfolio custom post type…

DunkDog

Dunkdog was a website that tracked and ranked basketball players in a highschool age league.   Using Wordpress, custom post types were created and linked together in order to facillitate the player and team database and rankings. Player post types utilized categories as data points such as height, weight, position and class to link to…

Mix Financial Platform

From January to September of 2011 I was the sole front end developer for a new global financial application built from scratch for a Hong Kong based company called Investlab. Created as a cost effective solution for bankers and their clients to access global markets, it was architectured in a very modular way, with nearly…

quiet time is now over…

Wow. I’ve been… silent as the grave the past two years — I think it’s been the amount of work I’ve been doing (I’m going to update my portfolio with the last … six?.. projects or so in the next coming days. Meanwhile there’s been so much CHANGE. In the world of technology (Flex compiling…

Nicholas Markets Foodtown

NicholasMarkets’ School Lunch Program was a way for a New Jersey super market to create a local school lunch program in the North New Jersey area. Using WordPress as the site framework, and custom coding the very popular Shopp plugin, I created a way for NicholasMarkets to service multiple schools with many teachers / grades…

PureMVC

PureMVC best practices: http://puremvc.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,174/   Example of PureMVC with Jabber: http://www.actionscriptdeveloper.co.uk/puremvc-tutorial-flex-puremvc-jabber-and-xiff-3-introduction/   Code of Doom: intro stepthrough: http://codeofdoom.com/wordpress/2009/01/25/puremvc-sample/   Youtube search with PureMVC / Flex4 http://www.alias3dmedia.com/tutorials/2d-tutorials/flash/creating-a-youtube-search-and-play-gadget-with-puremvc/   Series about Flex and component spark UIs http://algorithmist.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/flashbuilder-and-puremvc-part-i/ Multiton modules with PureMVC pipes: http://www.tekool.net/blog/2009/08/09/flash-only-modules-with-puremvc-pipes-demo/ Cliff Hall explains http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p41582221/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal https://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p88582617/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal   Multicore version: http://lowpitch.com/blog/puremvc-multicore-vs-standard-singlecore/   with pipes: http://www.joshuaostrom.com/2008/06/15/understanding-puremvc-pipes/  …