Software Developer, Entrepreneur
DragonTeach is a learning system to create efficiency for instructors and a better learning experience for students. The initial build was while I was an instructor at Sheridan College where it allowed us to improve our marking efficiency by 1000%. The current system at https://www.dragonteach.com/ is a completely redesigned and rebuilt system from the original allowing […]
WordCamps are meetups done in various cities around the world to promote and discuss WordPress. As a volunteer and speaker, the need for a quick way to process the videos generated from the events was needed. The WordCamp Video-O-Matic is a Node.js/Electron.io application to process WordCamp Videos to add an opening and closing and then transcoding […]
From 2012-2016: Built a line of business software for a telemarketing client. It started off as a simple application to convert a set of simple custom reports in CSV format to a reporting format that their clients wanted; it turned into a full line of business software. The original process involved someone manually entering the […]
It’s a new year, and I am back at Sheridan College. This semester, I am teaching 260, as usual, but I have CCT460 now, which I am co-instructing with Laurie (http://www.lauriemrauch.com/). 460 is the Advanced Web Design class with CCIT. We take all the things that we taught in 260 and 360 and add to […]
I’ve been watching the How To Train Your Dragon movies and tv episodes lately, and I’m a little obsessed with dragons. I want a dragon to ride, because that would be the most fun thing ever! I went looking for a HTTYD ipsum, and I couldn’t find one, so, I made one. http://www.malfunctioned.com/dragonsum BTW: malfunctioned.com […]
I just finished my WP-CLI talk, and I think it went well. I have allowed comments on this page, so please tell me what you thought about my talk. Here are my slides for it… These are by slides here
I’ve been accepted to speak at WordCamp Toronto! Come to my talk “Intro to WP-Cli”. I don’t know when it is, but keep checking here on my site, or at the WordCamp site (https://toronto.wordcamp.org/2015/)
Fall semester is upon us, and I am again teaching the CCT260 and CCT360 classes this fall. Looking forward to new and old students and new and old challenges. The tester has been migrated over to a plugin on our forums site, so, I am one step closer to consolidating everything for our classes […]
For those of you who don’t know, this cute little yellow guy is a Wapuu. It was created in Japan as the unofficial mascot for WordCamps and WordPress. You can find out more about him Here. The Wapuu is licensed GPL, so, anyone can use it to create a mascot for the WordCamp in […]
I spoke about this in Milwaukee. It is a very ugly hack, but it works. This hack bypasses the firewall that blocks outgoing SMTP by using an external server and sending the emails to through http. The following is the code for it. For the WordPress side, I created a plugin with the following code […]
