Thoughts from Culhwch

The goal of this project was to create a faculty directory with an admin interface as well as as individual user editing interface. The live version integrates with CAS for login. This was written PHP and MYSQL with CSS that integrates into the rest of the YSD webpage. Most CSS tags can be redefined in a configuration file. The editing interface makes use of custom AJAX code.

This was a pre-existing Drupal site by Randall Rode that I began to work on in the summer of 2008. Most of my work on the audio component involved bug fixing of the existing site. The video component is new and still under development. I am still awaiting input from the professors to continue work on it. In order to meet specific goals and constraints the video component is not a drupal module but actually a miniature CMS designed in Object Oriented PHP5. The video playlist administration panel uses custom AJAX.

I also worked with the professors and work study students to implement changes to Audio Visual Archive in preparation for the Dialect Lab (See Below). I worked out some customizations to the software currently in use to tag the mp3 files and add custom fields to the id3tags which can indicate whether or not files are public or private, as well as provide longitude and latitude for the Dialect Lab

This is a team project to create a google maps mashup with files already loaded on to our server from the Audio Visual Archive. My role is to handle the backend and javascript while others are working on the stylesheet and html design.

I wrote the PHP KML generator in Object Oriented PHP5. This component reads the files from AVA above and generates a MYSQLdatabase so that it can supply fast responses to the browsers’s javascript engine. I also work on the javascript for this site which reads the kml file and processes it. Each map move triggers a request for a new kml file to cover any new regions. Old markers are removed and new ones added based on the differences. This generates the content for the side bar.

This is a simple Gallery Theme customization. The site is intended for students to upload their pictures from the recent Study Tour of the Institue of Sacred Music.

I am currently working on a wordpress mu installation, for setting up multiple class blogs. This currently involves modifying plugins to utlize CAS authentication, make some blogs private. If this proves successful in planning phases we may consider porting several existing sites to the mu system.

This is the successor to the previous version of thulcandra.org. (See Below). It is currently running on WordPress with very little customization. I am hoping that will become a Religion and Arts blog where multiple people can contribute original works and discuss the intersection of Arts and Faith.

I first wrote this code as summer project for high school. It was originally a fairly basic forum built on php and mysql. It was originally conceived as a student discussion board. It had an admin interface for editorial corrections and deletions, for managing users, and for creating backups. In its latter days it was expanded to provide user profiles, CSS theme-ability, and moderation. In its later phases it was intended to be a multi-user hub of Religion and Arts discussion.

csf.thulcandra.org – (2005) (now defunct)

This was a re-themed version of thulcandra.org built as a webpage for the club I was leading at Bard College, where we could announce events and keep people coordinated.