Samples of my work

To quote the site: "The Strategic News Service is the most accurate predictive newsletter covering the computing and communications industries." This web site acts as a marketing tool for the newsletter, but it is much more than that. It also provides limited access areas for subscribers, and it handles new subscriptions, renewals and upgrades - securely billing credit cards and authorizing user accounts in real-time. The newsletter and renewal reminders are published using administrative pages on the site. A shopping cart system now rounds out the site, selling 'merch' to subscribers.

Strategic News Service was, but is no longer hosted on this server (actually, when I quit working on the site, it stayed on the server which I then sold to the client. I moved my own stuff to a new replacement system). I was responsible for ongoing support and maintenance of the site. I wrote custom scripts which provide most of the functionality and integrate other off-the-shelf components into one cohesive system. I also created all the HTML and javascript. Due to my move away from consulting, I stopped maintaining the site around 2002. To the best of my knowledge, the site still operates using much of the code I originally created.

Graphic design by Kopetz Bolich design. Production and text by PreText.

PreText was a short-lived on-line magazine. They contracted this page to serve as an example of the UNIX utility traceroute. It is a support page to a March '98 article (archive.org cache) describing traceroute and how it is used by system administrators to track down network problems. I also acted as a technical advisor on the article itself.

The trace page itself has been disabled due to a rash of idiotic gamers asking me for help with Microsoft's game system. Apparently microsoft tech reps were giving out my address so users could use the page for debugging.

A pearl search engine. This simple site (now offline, apparently) exemplifies my design philosophy. Simple, easy-to-use controls and a clean, readable design. I believe in remaining true to the nature of the web, using bandwidth only when it's appropriate and focusing on the information; using design elements to emphasize what's important to the user.

This is an intranet system for tracking construction workers. It was based on a previous implementation in Microsoft Access. Both versions of the software now operate from a common database. The web interface provides a subset of the original features, allowing foremen in the field to update employee records and request additional personnel.

If you haven't yet, take a look at my fun and useful programs.