Portfolio

A designer I am not, but I suppose I can do just enough to be dangerous. By dangerous, I mean throw some stuff up on the Internet that isn't offensive to the eye, but won't likely win any awards. Instead, I like to showcase the programming. See also: media stuff, Resume.

POP Forums

My long-running forum app is now available as a hosted forum. I've been messing with this application in one form or another since 1999. An early dissatisfaction with various forum apps led me to build it for my own sites, and it has been evolving ever since. It's open source and hosted on GitHub. It scales pretty well, and runs in multi-node arrangements like Azure.

Technical blog

You can read technical nerdy programmer stuff here on the ASP.NET blog site: https://weblogs.asp.net/Jeff/

CoasterBuzz

This site has been with me since 2000, and has seen five different versions. The current version includes my forum application, custom roller coaster and amusement park databases, photos and all of the amusement news you can stand. From a technical standpoint, it is not a complicated application. Built on ASP.NET Core, C#, SQL Server, and various front-end frameworks. It is supported by advertising and annual memberships to the coaster club associated with the site. It is monetized by advertising and roller coaster club memberships.

 

PointBuzz

This one launched in 1998 as Guide to The Point, a fan site for Cedar Point amusement park fans. In 2004, I joined forces with Walt Schmidt and his Virtual Midway, and PointBuzz was born. It's a lot like CoasterBuzz in terms of its development, but also has a ridiculously huge photo gallery.

Insurance.com quoting interview application

Collecting customer data for the purpose of offering an auto insurance quote was Insurance.com's bread and butter. While there, I was fortunate to be a part of the two-developer team building the new interview app. I prototyped an early version of the rendering engine, and for the production version was responsible for many of the custom controls and UI components that had to be dynamically injected into pages, custom to state regulations and requirements. I also handled some of the AJAX components, modal pop-ups, dynamic elements and other eye candy. One of my last tasks there was to build an SEO-friendly page mapping framework, which was used for the marketing site.