McKinney/York Architects

Yet another very tasteful design by creative suitcase.  I’m really proud of this site– I think it turned out amazingly well.  The portfolio section is pure javascript– mixing images, video and Google Maps in the slideshow.

The Cook Law Firm

Another beautiful and classy design from creative suitcase, implemented in WordPress.

University Park

After also creating Alexandrina Development’s web site in WordPress, I did a web site for their new development project in central Austin: University Park.  Designed by fd2s, I thought it turned out very well.  Liberal use of jCarousel.

Kinney Recruiting

Kinney Recruiting is a recruiting firm specializing in hiring for law firms.  I built their corporate web site using Joomla with a design from Christian Bowers.  They have many offices around the world and wished for each office to have it’s own blog, news section and other custom content.  I think Joomla excels with such requirements.

This site has a custom data integration with Bullhorn Recruiting Software.  All the job data you see on the site actually comes from an external web service and is loaded on the fly then you visit the various jobs pages or search for jobs.  Also, as a registered candidate, you can opt to receive new job postings as soon as they are published in Bullhorn.

To accomplish this integration in Joomla, I wrote a custom plug-in, component, and module.  If you include the custom Joomla theme, then I really touched all the bases of customizability within Joomla.  Through this project, I learned a lot about Joomla and grew to appreciate the programming interface.

CareerPlug

CareerPlug is a candidate sourcing company.  They use a custom Rails application to parse resumes from CareerBuilder, Monster and HotJobs into a candidate pool from which they can search for and invite to their client’s job opportunities.

I started working on this application after its inception, but prior to release.  I made it production ready and have been tuning it and adding features and functionality ever since.

Some interesting technology hightlights in use here are: DomainKeys for ensured email delivery, exporting data as Excel Spreadsheets, keyword searching over hundreds of thousands of resumes using Sphinx, and custom web page templating using LiquidTemplate.

This application is not public facing, so you cannot see it in action, but you can view CareerPlug’s corporate web site, which I also created using WordPress.

TMC Maps and Driving Directions

The Texas Medical Center in Houston is the world’s largest medical center. I write this application using CakePHP with a heavy emphasis on the Google Maps API.

There is a full back-end administrative interface where users can edit destination information, upload building footprints and even re-route the driving directions provided by Google. As you can see when you pull up a destination, the building as well as any surrounding parking garages are overlayed onto the map.

I used the ExtInfoWindow to style the popup window and the ExtMapTypeControl to provide the traffic view. Finally, the wonderfully compact iBox was used for the photo and email overlays.

This was a very long project, but I had a lot of fun working on it.

Check it out here!