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Halo Stats Archiver: Desktop Edition 2.0

Halo Stats Archiver: Desktop Edition 2.0 (HSA: DE) was built from the ground up scrapping the original code base that HSA: DE 1.0 had matured into. With HSA: DE 1.0 there was a serious flaw, it was hard to get working and once it was working it didn't necessarily stay that way. So with the development of HSA: DE 2.0 I decided to scrap the PHP-Gtk2 framework that HSA: DE 1.0 was built on and switch to my new love, Adobe AIR/Flex 3.

Sean Morrow Letter

Sean was one of my teachers at the NSCC Truro campus, his wealth of knowledge and his exceptional personality made for a great learning experience. Sean's teaching ability makes me think he could take anyone and make them a very capable web developer be it in Flash/Flex or ASP.net. His in class demonstrations and explanations a simple and extremely clear making it easy for anyone to learn in his classes.

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A little about me:

I've been interested in programming and Web Development for a very long time. I started programming in C++ but later moved to PHP, and have since moved to using primarily Flash/Flex for front-end development now. Recently I graduated from NSCC Truro campus'es Interactive and Motion Graphics: Flash Developer course with a Flash Developer diploma.

My programming skills have lead me to work for the Chignecto Central Regional School Board's Information Technology Department on a very ambitious project called techMap (School Maps) and now to Webbuilders Group where I am currently a full time employee with my primary focus in SilverStripe Development the cms that powers this website.

Even though my primary focus at home is on Flash and Flex at the current time, I'm still doing allot of backend work with PHP at work and for my home projects. I recently started using Zend Framework for their AMF communication classes which Adobe contributed. Using AMF seems to increase the speed of communication between my server and the flash application running on the clients machine dramatically no more useless xml tags just pure binary data. The trade off however seems to be the dramatic learning curve that it has but as I've been told before I seem to catch onto new programming stuff fast.

More Featured Works:

ASDoc Viewer

The ASDoc viewer module is by far my most advanced module I've done for personal use. Simply put its a way for you to upload your ASDocs, have SilverStripe render them but without all the common junk all ASDoc outputs contain saving space on your server.

i18n Translation System

While working on a new project I developed a translation system. This does not do the translation on its own but more is more like a language file system. It is highly modeled after the one in the SilverStripe CMS the one that powers this website.

Diff Package

This package like so much of the other things in my portfolio was built out of a need, in this case in the growing application Code Bank I was adding support for local databases. In doing so I was essentially detaching a project from it's server side dependencies though it is still there for those who need it.

Tower of Fortunes

This project was my Self Directed project for the 2008-2009 school year at NSCC Truro. It is based off of the game Fortunes Tower in the Fable II: Pub Games and is a game of chance where you press your luck until you win big or back down.

This project gave me a chance to dabble in Adobe AIR, which resulted in a game that you can play on your desktop and on the website with one login.