I'm Jeff. I'm a web developer, photographer, world traveler, movie lover, and baseball fanatic.
Web Development
TDI Security
A showcase of a technology security company's products and service offerings. The WordPress site features a custom theme based on FoundationPress, a mobile responsive layout with breakpoints for phone, tablet, and desktop. JavaScript libraries like Isotope and D3.js enable dynamic filtering, interactive page elements, and subtle animations to data presentations. Sticky subnavigation and sidebars ensure that users never get lost in long, scrolling content. Page and browser caching ensures fast site performance. Social networking tools increase shareability. A comprehensive WordPress back-end allows for easy maintenance of site content by the client.
responsive layout, WordPress, FoundationPress, Isotope, D3.js | Developer
Divvy It Up!
After growing tired of the complicated math involved in sharing costs when traveling with friends, I decided to make a tool to do the math for you. You can add events, friends, and costs, and it will tell you who owes money to each person in the end. Now, it's a site where people can split costs for travel, rent, or anything. Pie charts show how costs have been shared.
custom PHP
Ball Catchers
Catalogs the fans who have caught the most famous home run balls in Major League Baseball history. Features stories collected from news outlets, modals with videos showing each home run, and photos of the lucky fans.
custom PHP, Facebook comments
MonkeyStats
There weren't any good, free web sites for managing the schedule and statistics for recreational baseball and softball teams, so I made this. Team managers can keep player rosters, post schedules, send game invites, and keep team statistics. Features advanced form functionality and data validation, intense baseball math. Also included is a physics simulator showing how far you can hit a ball under various conditions.
custom PHP, Mailgun integration
17th Street BBQ
News and events from an Illinois restaurant group. Site features updatable menus, a carousel with merchandise, a newsletter subscription form, and a blog. The client's Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube feeds are featured in the footer.
responsive layout, WordPress, Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/YouTube feeds | Lead Developer
FosterPort
Collection of resources on issues impacting older foster youth transitioning out of foster care. Client requested that the resources be easily filterable and fully functional on mobile devices. Site features advanced filtering logic and dropdown panels showing all available filters. Preloaded content and dynamic animation quickly delivers results. Back-end tools allows the organization to easily add new resources and categorize them for proper filtering.
responsive layout, WordPress, Isotope | Lead Developer
Jaybridge Robotics
Autonomous vehicle and industrial robotics software company requested a site which showcased the technology. A hero carousel with content transitions and scroll-driven parallax interactions were added to make the browsing experience more dynamic.
responsive layout, WordPress, Foundation | Lead Developer
FlikPik
We only have so much time left, so why waste your time watching bad movies? What if there was a way to pick your next movie to watch from a list of the best movies ever? And what if you could filter that list to reflect your personal preferences? Using data from IMDB and some proprietary algorithms to come up with final rankings, a list of the best movies ever is presented. Daily cron jobs keep the data fresh. Dynamic filtering allows you to find hidden gems, mark movies as seen, and add them to a watchlist. Movies on your favorite streaming services are a click away.
responsive layout, Foundation, Isotope, TMDb/OMDb/Guidebox API, Google AdSense integration
Juniper
Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts. One-page site features navigation with animated scrolling, an online menu populated by SinglePlatform, gift card and cookbook ordering integration with PayPal, and a photo gallery.
responsive layout, WordPress, Foundation, PayPal integration | Lead Developer
Loveline Tapes
A community effort to collect, organize, and share recordings of old Loveline radio shows. Loveline was a nationally syndicated radio call-in program featuring Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew that offered medical and relationship advice to listeners. Over three thousand recordings are stored, all of them indexed, searchable, and available to public for free. Features include a jQuery MP3 player, call tagging, integrated message board, and search functionality. Back-end tools allow admins to upload and archive new recordings, moderate content, and ban users. Cloudflare CDN delivers cached content for the best performance.
custom PHP, phpBB integration, CloudFlare
Photography
United States Capitol
Washington, District of Columbia
The original Height of Buildings Act, passed by Congress in 1899 in response to the construction of the Cairo Hotel, limited buildings to the height of the Capitol building, which rises to 289 feet. But the act was amended in 1910 to restrict the height of any building to the width of the adjacent street plus 20 feet; thus, a building facing a 90-foot-wide street could be only 110 feet tall. The Capitol building is currently the fifth tallest structure in Washington.
Night Sky in the Outback
Bea Creek, Western Australia, Australia
A 4-hour nighttime exposure of the southern sky at Bea Creek camp, just east of the mining town of Tom Price. Set the camera up, clicked the button, and went to bed. You can see the Southern Cross low and center in the sky.
Mount Tasman & Mount Cook
Southern Alps, New Zealand
Mount Tasman and Mount Cook are the two highest mountains in New Zealand. They sit four kilometers apart in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs the length of the South Island.
Night Falls on Český Krumlov
Český Krumlov, Czech Republic
Construction of this town and castle began around 1240 at a ford in the Vltava River, at an important trade route in the Czech lands formerly known as Bohemia.
Safeco Field Left Field Entrance
Seattle, Washington
Home stadium of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. The stadium has a seating capacity of 47,943 for baseball. Safeco Insurance reportedly paid $40 million to have its name on the stadium for 20 years.
Floralis Genérica
Buenos Aires, Argentina
An aluminum and stainless steel sculpture of 18 tons in the country's capital. The giant petals used to open in the morning and close in the evening, but Floralis Genérica is currently broken, and it’s unclear whether or not it is still under warranty.
Monastic City of Glendalough
Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland
The present remains in Glendalough tell only a small part of its story. The monastery in its heyday included workshops, areas for manuscript writing and copying, guest houses, an infirmary, farm buildings and dwellings for both the monks and a large lay population. The buildings which survive probably date from between the 10th and 12th centuries.
Boat on the Floating Island
Lake Titicaca, Peru
There are 42 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. The purpose of the island settlements was originally defensive, and if a threat arose they could be moved. The reeds at the bottoms of the islands rot away fairly quickly, so new reeds are added to the top constantly, about every three months.
Green Waterfalls of Plitviče
Plitviče Lakes National Park, Croatia
Plitviče Lakes National Park is known for a chain of 16 terraced lakes, joined by waterfalls, that extend into a limestone canyon.
Green Door in Kotor
Kotor, Montenegro
Kotor has one of the best preserved medieval old towns in the Adriatic and is a UNESCO world heritage site.
From the Blogs
The Frozen North
April 16, 2021 | reviews
Hard to understand Dick’s own voiceover, presumably recorded when he was an old man. He’s not very good at reading his own material. Might have been worth combining all the footage to produce a more complete, succinct, well-rounded documentary about Dick and his experience.
Game 7 of the 2019 World Series: A Live Blog
October 31, 2019 | blog
We’re here. Game 7 of the World Series. The Washington Nationals have defied all odds to get here. They weren’t even supposed to make it to the playoffs, let alone the World Series. Along the way, they trailed in and eventually won all 4 playoff elimination games they’ve been in,…
Odds of Winning the Division
August 16, 2019 | blog
We’re now in the home stretch of the my baseball simulation league season, and I thought it might be fun to try to run some numbers to see what the odds are for each team to win their division.