In Latin, the word facere has many definitions, including "to make," "to do," and "to accomplish." I appreciate the ability of this one word to have such a flexibility of definitions, so I wanted a part of this site to showcase some of the things I've made, some of the things that I can do, and some of the things that I've accomplished.
If you would like for me to do any of these things for you, please let me know.
- I can make a website using HTML, Javascript, and CSS. However, I personally prefer using HAML, SASS, and one of those newfangled Javascript frameworks.
- I can make a static website using Middleman and then host it using Amazon S3, Cloudfront, and Route 53 for less than a dollar a month.
- I can make a website with Ruby on Rails. I can then take that website and host it on Heroku.
- I can integrate Rails websites with different services including Salesforce, Chase Paymentech, Pushbullet, and Twilio.
- I can make a Docker container to package applications up for easier hosting.
- I can make a complex front-end application using a Javascript framework like Angular or Vue. These appliations can do things like handle location HTML5 History, gather data from web services, store data on the browser with IndexedDB.
- I can make this link play a recording of me saying "Hello" using HTML5 Audio on modern browsers. Doesn't your voice sound weird when it's played back to you?
- I can make an app using Cordova and I can then even push that to an Amazon FireTV.
- I can make a website using Bootstrap that emulates Android's Material Design.
- Communication App - I was recently part of a project made a communications system for a set of internal users. This was done using ReactJS and Websockets with the Quickblox communications backend.
- TV App - I made an app that runs on an Amazon FireTV using Cordova and AngularJS. This app was meant to be a slideshow that plays on multiple TVs and included dynamic graphs. I made a small web service to export all the data that the app might need while saving it locally on the client using IndexedDB in case a loss of connectivity ever happened.
- chefwokla.com - This was an early foray into static websites for me. This set me on the path of using Middleman for all those nice Ruby-isms in front-end development that I've come to love. This is hosted on Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. I took this opportunity to learn about page load speed and how to improve that every way I can. There used to be more pages, but if you click around, its zippy.
- ColbyNY - My friend Colby before he went to New York for a trip once, kept remarking on the number of days left until his trip. So as a friendly practical joke when he came back, I made him a website counting down the days since he's been to New York. A few years later, I was learning how to do a bit of native Android development, and I made him an app as well.
- Payment Website - This was a website made to collect payments on bills. The system gathered billing data from a Microsoft .NET web service, processed payments using another web service provided by Chase Paymentech, and finally stored those records in Salesforce.
- CMS Websites - I have made many a site using a ruby based CMS called Wheelhouse. I was responsible for making templates for users to populate for pages and also making plugins to handle different types of data on this CMS. Some of these sites were authenticated through SSO into an existing user store.
- Cajun Code Fest 2013 - I was part of the winning team of a local programming competition known as Cajun Code Fest in 2013. We won both the Grand Prize and the US Ignite award. You can read more about it here.
- I graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with my Master's Degree in Computer Science.
- I was voted world's sexiest man (Not actually true but this list looks short so I added it).