Portfolio

A few of the toys and projects I've programmed.

My.AOL.com Widgets

Developed several JavaScript widgets for AOL's personal pages app during my internship, including Right Now on AOL, AOL Pictures: Public Galleries, and even a full Web AIM Client, built to work in most browsers IE6 and newer.

Scripting the news ticker was my first assignment here I sprited these images so it would load faster The Buddy List for my custom aim widget Chatting in the aim widget Sending a message to a new aim contact You can even change your status

FastPencil.com

Commissioned to write much of the server-side code and JavaScript features for this site.

The app allowed you to write blocks of text in a rich text editor. You could then rearrange the blocks in your table of contents by dragging and dropping them. This is what people who are reviewing your book would see. They can also comment on a block, and it will notify the other collaborators The app featured a rather involved layout and publishing wizard. This is the review step at the end of it.

Elemental Chess

Designed an original board game and implemented it first as a desktop application with Ruby and OpenGL, and then as a multiplayer web application in JavaScript, Web.py and CouchDB.

A freshly setup game of Elemental Chess in the web interface If you lose your wizard, you lose the game. Looks like checkmate! Hovering over a piece will show you where it can move and what pieces it can take. Most pieces can only move one space in the cardinal directions. Looks like that wizard is trapped.

ArtScraper

The idea of this site is to gather up your art or photos from various places on the internet and create one big thumbnail gallery out of it. The thumbnails are cached in Amazon S3, and they link back to the original sites for context. I'd like to add some social features to it eventually. Still a work in progress.

A thumbnail gallery. Very simple settings screen: just pick a name and tell it where to find your art.

Shiny Tile Land

A simple tile-based side-scroller I made for a graphics class. It has dynamic lighting with fragment shaders, alpha-blended parallax layers, some other neat special effects. I wrote my own collision detection routine using the same techniques you'd use to rasterize a fat line, by "rasterizing" the player's path into tile space.

This is the basic effect. Lighting is localized to certain spots on the level. That out-of-place tile is the player. This is the alpha-blending parallax effect. It's pretty trippy. The same level again, but with bump-mapped spirals this time. There are a few gui controls to tweak. The gui bit uses Qt4.

Flash Toys

Space Shooter, Snake, Coulomb's Law Simulator, Destructible Terrain.

A little ship vs lots of random asteroids. I implemented an interesting padded movement style, as well as the common semi-automatic triple shot. Eat apples, grow longer. Totally pointless, but it's fun to add more springy joints to the snake Place particles, watch them float around, interact, and neutralize when they touch. Shoot the obstacle to burrow your way through it.

JavaScript Toys

Panorama Jumper, Sprite Controller.

Explore the Santa Cruz River by panning around and clicking targets to jump to other places