atevans.com/party

/party (pronounced "slash-party") is a subsite of my personal / professional web page that I use to notify my friends when I'm hosting an event. Basically, it got to the point where trying to call each of my friends individually to let them know they were invited to watch a movie at my place got to be a pain, and I kept forgetting people on my friends list. I decided a web application could solve this problem. So I built the /party site to let people know, by whatever method is most convienent for them, that I was doing something.

It was built in a few days with PHP and Perl - php for the page itself, the email, RSS, and txt message notification systems. Perl was used (along with the Net::OSCAR module) for notification with AOL Instant Messenger. I built an AIMbot whose away status was set to the notification message - date, time, place, and a very short description of activities. The AIMbot then keeps track of who it has notified, and messages anyone it hasn't notified, if they are online, once an hour.

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Innovative Automation

Innovative Automation is an Indianapolis-based company that buys, services, and sells Amada punch-presses and other industrial machinery. I set up the back end and interface using Ruby on Rails, and used a variety of creative commons and open source technology to quickly get the site up and running. The design was modified from the Midnight template, available via a Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution license from Free CSS Templates. I also made use of Lokesh Dhakar's wonderful Lightbox v2 script for image display, and Anssi Piirainen's FlowPlayer for product videos.

The result of using these open-source and creative commons technologies was that Innovative Automation got a high-quality web site with an easy-to-use backend within a month. The interface allows the client to handle updating product details, uploading product images, creating slideshows to demonstrate their service capabilities, and uploading videos to display their products in action.

Inno-auto.com