I'm Jeff. I'm a web developer, photographer, world traveler, movie lover, and baseball fanatic.
Web Development
Ping Pong Rankings
A ranking system for office ping pong or any other competitive event. The system is built as a ladder, where players can challenge players above them and must win to move up. Email notifications for challenge matches and reminders of upcoming games are automatically sent out. Playing statistics including all-time records, streaks, and easiest/toughest opponents are calculated on the fly. Back-end tools allow admins to add and remove players.
responsive layout, Foundation
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
DMI
Digital mobility company needed a site that showcased its newly acquired divisions and business capabilities. Content and image-heavy site features angled content areas, magazine-style transitions, multi-level horizontal navigation, and embedded video and PDF content. A government subsite with graceful degradation to IE7 was required.
responsive layout, WordPress, Foundation, Google Tag Manager integration | Tech Lead
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
4-H
Global youth organization needed a refresh of their internationally recognized brand. An updated design was created, and a new back-end content management system allowed for easier organization and maintenance of their deep content. Structured page templates ensure that content is always cleanly presented. Section 508 rules for accessibility were respected.
responsive layout, WordPress Multisite, Foundation, Webdam integration | Tech Lead
Weekly Resourcing Summary
Web app that uses the ResourceGuru API to determine appropriate resource allocation for our team of account managers, project managers, strategists, copywriters, UX, designers, and developers. Visual charting of the data helps determine at a glance if resources are appropriately allocated for the week. A detail view shows specific clients and projects assigned to each resource. Filters may be used to display resource from specific departments.
responsive layout, Foundation, ResourceGuru API | Lead Developer
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
Super Bowl Squared
Pick numbers before the big game, and win big if the scores at the end of each quarter matches your numbers. Site features secure logins for each user and email notifications using an external SMTP service.
responsive layout, WordPress, 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
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
Photography
Royal Palace
Oslo, Norway
The Royal Palace in Oslo was built in the first half of the 19th century as the Norwegian residence of the French-born King Charles III of Norway, who reigned as king of Norway and Sweden.
A Message from Above
Jerusalem, Israel
The Old City as viewed from the Mount of Olives, named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes. The mount has been used as a Jewish cemetery for over 3,000 years and holds approximately 150,000 graves.
Fire Twirler
Koh Phangan, Thailand
In the spirit of Koh Phangan's full moon parties, this New Year's Eve party on a beach called Haad Rin was filled with with tens of thousands of people drinking and dancing and hallucinating and vomiting and having sex. There were performers and dancers everywhere. This long exposure of a fire twirler was the best of the bunch.
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
Seattle, Washington
Safeco Field has a unique retractable roof that only acts as an "umbrella" for the stands and field rather than forming a complete climate-controlled enclosure, as is the case with all other retractable roofs in Major League Baseball. The field also features an LED video display scoreboard, the second largest HD video display scoreboard in MLB.
Upper Lake
Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland
Followed a path from the monastic ruins of Glendalough to find this sweeping view between the mountains. The Glendalough Valley was formed during the last ice age by a glacier which left a moraine across the valley mouth. The Poulanass River, which plunges into the valley from the south, created a delta, which eventually divided the original lake in two.
McLeod's Table
North Skye, Scotland
Rock formations on the Isle of Skye in the Scottish Highlands. A scene from the film "Prometheus" was filmed here.
Vigeland Sculpture Park
Oslo, Norway
The Vigeland installation in Frogner Park features 212 bronze and granite sculptures, all designed by Gustav Vigeland. Around the Monolith Plateau are 36 figure groups representing the "circle of life".
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.
St. James Gate Brewery
Dublin, Ireland
St. James's Gate Brewery is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guinness. The company is now a part of Diageo, a company formed from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997. The main product of the brewery is Guinness Draught.
From the Blogs
The Lighthouse
January 22, 2021 | reviews
Beautiful, but very weird. What you’d expect from an art film. As a period piece, it’s exceptional. Sets, costumes, the beautiful photography, pacing, and performances all seem truly authentic. Really great historical flavor. The magical combination of suspense, madness, and creepy birds is reminiscent of Hitchcock. The simple framing, moments…
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.