Here are some examples of my past work.
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October 2018
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This project serves as a “final project” in my path to learning the Laravel framework for web application development. After reading through the entire official documentation, I wanted to get my hands dirty with the framework, so this is what I came up with. I made it a point to touch on nearly every major available feature included with Laravel. This is an app for a hypothetical pizza delivery restaurant. […]
April 2019
Database Design, Java, Web Development, CSS, MySQL, Automation, Modbus, PHP, Raspberry Pi, HTML, JavaScript
Purpose / Overview
There are several saltwater disposal sites in North Dakota spread around the Bakken Formation in which the ticket information from the truck drivers must be collected and archived. The information includes the driver’s name, company, truck number, water type, BBLs to be disposed, etc. The ticket database should be accessible via the company’s VPN […]
November 2018
After learning WordPress theme development and rebuilding thriftynick.com (this site) as a custom theme, the next logical step was to learn WordPress plugin development. Introducing “TN Map Zones,” my first WordPress plugin! The idea for this plugin came from a client on a freelancing site who needed the functionality for his site. It’s also a better solution to what I currently have on my pizza delivery app for determining deliverable addresses. Rather than simply using zip codes, you can set a polygon area on the map. […]
November 2018
After finishing the Pizza Delivery app, I knew I needed to rebuild my website. Since I’ve had WordPress on my radar for quite some time, I decided to take the opportunity to learn theme and plugin development and apply it to rebuilding my site. I think I maybe should’ve learned WordPress before Laravel […]
May 2018
I used to do webscraping jobs using PHP. I did around 5 or 6 jobs and started out on a couple of basic websites that could be scraped using PHP’s built in HTTP request functions. Then I found out that a lot of sites use frontend frameworks to dynamically generate content. Much of this JavaScript is also minified and obfuscated. I needed something more powerful […]
July 2017
This is a small freelance project I did for one of my clients. It is a simple five question quiz for accountants. I did not use any frameworks. Everything was done in plain HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and PHP. Using JavaScript, I implemented an interactive input system for book entries. There is also a password-protected admin panel. Each test submission is […]
January 2017
Introduction
This is a project I started working on during the holiday break. I just finished my third Java class and I wanted to make something using some of the concepts I’d learned about (namely graphs and graph algorithms). I chose JavaFX for this project, because I wanted to go with something standard, since this is intended to be a very simple game that does not require a more advanced game library. […]
August 2016
July 1, 2016
After having completed my second Java course at my university, I decided to take the summer off and get started on a game project that I’ve been thinking about for a long time: A 2D isometric engine. I finally felt like I was at the competency level necessary to begin working on it.
I’ve always found isometric projection to be […]
April 2015
This was my first stab at a “real” game with graphics. After reading Beginning C++ Through Game Programming by Michael Dawson, I began reading Programming 2D Games by Charles Kelly. The game is written in C++ and uses the DirectX API for rendering graphics, handling audio, Xbox 360 controller support, physics, etc. […]
September 2014
This began as an extra credit project for my COMP101 (Problem Solving with Computing) class taken in 2014. We were learning the basics of programming using JavaScript in that class. Actually, we weren’t even using it the way it is traditionally used (along with html/css) but instead were using an online IDE that was for learning the basics and only wrote text out to the console. […]