I worked on a few of SproutBox's "sprouts" during my time there:

MyJibe

I spent a solid majority of my time at SproutBox working on MyJibe. While working with the rest of the SproutBox team and MyJibe's founders, I helped to implement the half of the main features including the funding of budgets using Cucumber to drag around sliders and verify that amounts matched what the founders were expecting from the algorithm.

SquadEdit

While working alone, I implemented the opening and saving dialogs for remote files of SproutBox's colloborative text editor. Prior to doing that I had to fix numerous bugs added in a prior iteration along with a massive, time-boxed refactoring of all the JavaScript.

Misc

I quickly fixed a show stopping bug in Proposable and added a feature to ScheduleThing while cursing PHP and Zend.

Tools & Technology: Cucumber, rSpec, Rails, Basecamp, Devise, CanCan, Resque Scheduler, Recurrence

I was contracted by Agile Reasoning to jump start their Rails development and learning. While there I helped execute two projects with a test-driven process using Cucumber and Rails, along with helping a former DBA get rolling down the Rails. One of the projects is described on AR's Case Study page.

Tools & Technology: Cucumber, rSpec, Rails, Scrum Ninja, Pivotal Tracker

I came in on a two-man project that was using Rails that could have been described as 80% done. I introduced RSpec, Selenium, RESTful design, and some Agile project management techniques to whip out a a set of features, a backlog, and a collaborative environment. Some screen shots can be found on the product's demo page.

Tools & Technology: Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, rSpec, RESTful Auth, Fetcher, Selenium, Acts as state machine

At Dealerflow I worked on a Rails application targeted at auto-dealerships with a handful of people with varying skill sets and specialities.

While there I:

• Helped integrate ejabberd and Rails by creating Rake and Capistrano tasks to control and deploy ejabberd, devising a scheme of temporary passwords to allow JSJaC to securely survive page refreshes, and created the RESTful controllers that allow ejabberd to log presence and messages to Rails.
• Spent my final days reviewing over 100 pages of specifications provided by an SMS aggregator. I reduced them to nearly two dozen stories allowing me to estimate when we would be able to begin sailing through carrier testing. My hope was to allow SMS to be used as ejabberd's offline channel to allow people to IM even when they weren't at a computer.
• Attended two Pragmatic Studios, one for Rails and another on Erlang.

Tools & Technology: Ruby on Rails, nginx, Monit, ejabberd, JSJaC, Capistrano, restful_authentication, will_paginate, Erlang, MySQL, Prototype, Lowpro, Scriptaculous, RSpec, javascript_test, Gentoo, Debian, SVN, Trac

I designed and implemented a project called SVNApp, short for Subversion Appliance. I created a Ruby on Rails application to make managing Subversion repositories much easier, and then packaged it up using Gentoo to run and install from a bootable CD.

• Created a Rails application that used Subversion's Ruby bindings to display change logs; interacted with the user and group shell utilities to manage the systems users and groups; and reversed engineered ActiveResource's protocol so it could be used to interface with a Lucene based indexing service.
• Used Rake to control a Gentoo Linux build to produce an installable LiveCD that contained all the parts of the application, all setup, and ready to go including an unoptimized Rails based installer.
• Setup and maintained two servers and a workstation using SuSE Linux. The setup employed RAID mirroring, DNS, uninterruptable power supplies, and an ISDN connection.

Tools & Technology: Ruby on Rails, Apache, SuSE Linux, Subversion, Swig, C, Rake, Gentoo Linux, XPlanner, Collaboa, Bind

I was contracted by Andrew Shoaf to setup and theme a Drupal powered web site for a local landscaping company. I had to convert a Photoshop design into an HTML/CSS template usable with Drupal. Various Drupal modules were also setup to meet PL's specialty uses.

2008

I setup a basic site built with RefineryCMS and deployed it onto a stack that I built using Puppet, Nginx, and Varnish.

2006

I took over web master responsibilities a few months prior to the election. This included migrating an ASP site to a small Rails CMS I wrote and migrating email using FetchMail. A mass-mailer was also created using Rails to send emails to more than 1,500 people.

2004

I offered to put together the technology to have an online chat which was used in a small post-election chat. This initially was planned to be a Javascript and HTML interface to a Jabber chat room, but resulted in being completely database driven due to constraints and problems with jabberd 1 and my host. It also had Python script that moderated the occupants creating a Q&A environment with one speaker.

Tools & Technology: PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, Jabberd 1.4.3, Python, Jabberpy, WebClientService, class.jabber.php

I maintained Progressive Indiana's web site, developed new sites for specific purposes, and sat on the board of directors providing assistance and input on the group's activities until a majority of the board decided to divert their energies elsewhere.

• My work on the primary web site included posting events and collecting news items which resulted in approximately 1,000 visitors per month at its height, around 90 registered users, and attracted the attention of Senator Evan Bayh.
• I developed a web site that was used to accept donations for a full page ad in the Indianapolis Star. The site featured a barometer to track the campaign's progress, and made use of an idea of viral marketing by making it easy for a donor to tell their friends about the campaign.

Tools & Technology: Ruby on Rails, Drupal, MySQL, HMTL, CSS, OpenSSL, and GnuPG

Warning: These may or may not be available due to my hosting arrangements.

Psi, an open source Jabber client, only supported the undocumented group-chat protocol. I offered to add support for JEP-0045, Multi-User Chat. I ended up partially implementing the full MUC spec along with bookmark storage before the core Psi team decided to switch to Qt 4 before my changes were committed. While working, I generalized multiple use cases used to change an occupant's role into a simple to use role/affiliation editor that used drag and drop.

Tools & Technology: C++, Qt, qmake, CVS, GNU arch