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Perpetual Projects
I’m perpetually working on one project or another– usually three or four projects at the same time. This page will simply list the most noteworthy projects in production at the current time as well as completed noteworthy projects. Below that, you’ll be able to browse posts filed under the Projects category to read up-to-date information on whatever projects are rolling around at the time.
The New IPF³ Anthology of Fine Literature
Back in September of 2009, I started a website called Idiosyncratic Protectional Field³. I had a handful of volunteer authors and a small fanbase. Our goal was to share all kinds of literature online– both from the official authors of the site and the users who submit their work. By December of that year, the authors had slowed down in writing and I couldn’t maintain the site by myself; our already-acute fanbase had shrunk somewhat by then, too. I decided I needed to halt the work there until I could properly fund the site, pay authors to write, and pay for advertising. So I killed the site and hand-built (meaning no WordPress at the core) another site in its place to launch The New IPF³ Anthology of Fine Literature– a book I self-published containing many of my pieces of writing along with writing from three other authors of the original site as well as writing from several deceased authors whose work is in the public domain. The book is still available for purchase here.
Intreda
(or Intelligent and Narciscious Treasury Recording, Enquiring, and Automating Database Apparatus)
(or simply Intelligent Treasury Database)
In 2008 and 2009, I was appointed the treasurer for the WJHS Choir Department in West Jordan, Utah. Since all years’ treasurers previous to me had merely used paper and pencil at worst and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets at best to keep track of funds, I decided to change the trend and design something that did what previous treasuries lacked:
- Streamline the accounting process
- Accurately keep track of each student’s account
- Notify students and parents about their account’s standing manually and automatically
- Have the ability to integrate new database elements for appendages to the database (such as to keep track of fundraisers, medical forms, music library, etcetera).
- Keep the choir department out of debt (while the treasurer before me managed to do this merely with Excel, most or all treasurers before him were unable to keep the department out of debt).
- Do all of this (which other accounting software is capable of– for a price) for free.
This database does all of these things beautifully. I am currently working to add these features:
- Develop a website that allows students and parents to log in to view their account status.
I also hope to add these features in the future:
- Develop a WordPress plugin so the online INTREADA database will integrate with WordPress installations.
The choir treasurers at WJHS still use the database I designed, and I’m also offering any other school groups, church groups, and other related groups to use my software for free. I will soon get download links up for the database and for an instruction manual, but for now please contact me for assistance.
nerdology.org WordPress Theme
This one’s a no-brainer. One night, while brushing my teeth, the thought came to me that “nerdology.com” would be a perfect domain name. Pure genius. But then I knew it would already be taken. Sure enough, when I typed the URL into the address bar of Google Chrome that night, I found it was taken by some Geek-Squad-esque wannabes. To my utmost pleasure, however, I found nerdology.org to be available. So I bought it. For several weeks, I’ve been using what spare time I could scrounge up to design and build the site you see before your eyes. As I type, it’s nearly finished. For all the nerds out there, this site is run by WordPress software, and I designed the aesthetics of the theme from a barebones theme known as Whiteboard. I coded all of the CSS and changed a lot of the PHP in the theme, so while Whiteboard’s designer laid the groundwork for me, the site is officially mine. Everything on the site was thoroughly coded and tested using gedit and Google Chrome in Linux Mint 9, my current Linux distribution of choice. The theme, which I’ve dubbed “nerdology”, will probably one day be available for free to anyone who wants to use it as their WordPress theme, but I’m currently keeping it closed source until I perfect it. It’ll probably be at version 2.0 before I release it, and that probably won’t happen until 2013 or 2014 due to time constraints and the fact that I won’t be able to work on it at all for two years. If you have any suggestions or questions about the site, feel free tocontact me about it.
Posts Filed Under Projects
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