This is an overview of some of the projects I’ve worked on. For a more general overview of what I do, check out my bio.
Major Projects
The Spokesman-Review
spokesman.com, data.spokesman.com
- 2008-Present: Django/Python backend development. Help maintain and develop new features on a regional news website.
- data modeling, custom full-text search backend, Reuters OpenCalais integration, GIS (geolocation, mapping) development, dynamic (jQuery/AJAX) user interface development
- Awards/Acclaim: 2010 Society of Professional Journalists - Best Online News Site (Pacific Northwest)
Onion Browser
- 2012: iOS app development. Developed an open-source, privacy-enhancing web browser for iOS using the Tor Network.
- Featured in: TechCrunch, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Macworld, The Guardian (UK), Cult of Mac, MSNBC GadgetBox, Geek.com
- Awards/Acclaim: #1 Paid iPhone Utility app, 4/26-4/27; #2 Paid iPad Utility app, 4/26-4/27. Charted at least as high as #45 Overall Paid iPhone app (4/26) and #37 Overall Paid iPad app (4/27).
- More info: introductory blog post, source code, App Store link
census.ire.org
- 2011: Django/Python backend development. Assisted a team of journalist-programmers build an easy-to-use, but powerful Census data utility for the public
KOMU News for iPhone
- Winter 2009: Objective-C development, PHP middleware development
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Winter 2009: PHP backend development
- custom CMS admin panel, storefront management system
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Fall 2009: PHP backend development
- CMS customizations, internationalization backend, social network API integration
The Maneater Student Newspaper
- 2006-2007: Online Editor / 2007-2008: Asst. Online Editor
- Managed content updates, including breaking news. Maintained PHP-powered Web site from 2006-2007. Developed and deployed new Django-powered Web site in early 2008. Implemented, produced, and managed initial multimedia offerings including podcasts.
The National Newspaper Association
- 2007: PHP frontend/backend development
- Designed and integrated a complete Web site overhaul from aged, proprietary CMS into a Wordpress-powered backend.
Miscellaneous Other Things
- Created the first working PyPy 1.8 Heroku buildpack
- A Django-on-Heroku tutorial (source code)
- NationBrowse, a university capstone project to dynamically map census data (postmortem blog post, source code)
- django-gheat, a heatmap-making toolkit for Django projects (demo)
- I’m an official maintainer of geopy, a Python client for Web-based geocoding APIs
- And I have various other snippets and projects on GitHub