This was a site requested by a family member who wanted to create a centralized location for tracking all the various things relating to their upcoming wedding. The site is currently only a prototype made with Ruby on Rails. The backend is a secured version of the rails pre-constructed scaffolding. The upshot of all this is that the entire site as-is was built in three days flat, and the demo was posted for my client shortly thereafter.
A webcomic hosting application I created in Ruby on Rails. I had several friends asking if I knew any good places to host webcomics, and I did not know of any such places. So, I took about two weeks to build this application in Ruby on Rails. Unfortunately, most of my friends lost interest and the time necessary to work on web comics, but I left the application up in case it became useful.
The Purdue Game Development Club needed a webmaster, so I decided to get a page up and running before I applied. To do so, I created a layout, set up phpBB, and created a php frontend to interface the two. I set up some announcements threads, and made our layout display those on the main page in a pretty nice format. Ultimately, the club voted to go with another web designer, who created the page that is the current incarnation, which uses static HTML. I did, however, get to create an RSS interface for their phpBB board, so that they would have some kind of dynamically-updating announcements.
A small, CRUD-capable portfolio site before I owned the atevans.com domain name. Written in php, with a CSS liquid layout and file / image uploading capabilities, Archmagus.us served as a perfectly adequate portfolio site from 2004-2007. The site is still live for archive purposes, and can be seen at the link below.
Artopolis was another project to learn more about quickly developing web applications using Ruby on Rails. The idea was to create a clone of DeviantArt with strong interface improvements for use by friends and family. The project was abandoned about halfway through due to the urgency of class projects, but since it was developed before the file_column plugin, this application still shows some relatively advanced file manipulation and scripting capabilities.
A project completed during the summer of 2006, Ruby Classroom is a classroom management web application targeted at secondary school educators. The primary purpose of the project was to learn Ruby on Rails, and how to use it to speed web development. It accomplished this goal handily, and I also got some real-world experience with server deployment and configuration for Ruby on Rails.
WILY Radio is a web site for the radio station based in Wiley Residence Hall at Purdue. I was their webmaster during my first semester at Purdue, and this was how I redesigned their web site. Although it hasn't been updated since I stopped being in charge of it, the site is still live with the original design. Done in PHP, with a minimal backend. WILY Radio
