Distributed version control
W2OPress standardizes project development and facilitates more accurate estimates and faster turnaround. We have a library of in-house and vetted third-party plugin submodules that are versioned and available to use across implementations. Both client and product work are incorporated into our two-week sprints. This is the most agile-friendly approach I’ve heard of actually employed within an agency setting. From a developer’s standpoint, it is a marked improvement.
Following the responsive redesign of the MasterCard Newsroom that included modularizing the SCSS style files, it was a breeze to simply append a right-to-left module to mirror the design for the new Arabic region.
The Engagement Bureau needed some significant re-theming (including the addition of off-canvas menus) to make it accessible to phones and tablets. I spent a great deal of time modularizing years old style sheets that were thousands of lines in length. The DevOps team made developing via local vagrant instance possible.
Assigned the impossible task of replicating an existing site that lacked a defined scope, I acted as lead to eight other developers. I built several object-oriented WordPress plugins that handled registered users, resources, the shopping cart, item orders, and integration with the client’s SAP fulfillment system.
At a certain point, admins using the MasterCard Newsroom found themselves their own worst enemy by over-categorizing posts and abusing tags. They decided to approach from a new angle: to focus content by properly utilizing custom post types (News Briefs, Press Releases, Digital Press Kits, Images, and Videos), and to round it out by cross-categorizing using custom taxonomies.
MasterCard required ongoing maintenance to the existing Newsroom while developing their new project: The Engagement Bureau. I acted as release manager, overseeing several other developers all the while debugging and performing maintenance on other projects.
Our family recipe site began as a simple way to log our favorite recipes. It became much more. We can easily choose from recipes and tagged ingredients, or write-in what we need, to compile a grocery list that we can access from our phones in-store. The generated list doubles as a drag and drop interface where the app can learn how grocery items should be sorted in the future for a particular store, for a particular user.
MasterCard sought the ability to collect content from the diverse array of blogs they manage to create custom RSS feeds that group posts into similar foci. This would allow them to cross-pollinate content written by a number of separate entities worldwide by showcasing feeds from blogs of different origin.
Several of the data sources that Intel wanted to use to populate their Analytics Hub database did not have APIs available. For that reason, Kenshoo and Sprinklr data was to be provided by individual files. While Intel could have simply FTP’d those files directly onto the server itself, the web portal I programmed provided better management of this process and displayed the state of all files in real time.
I created an interactive map that renders fertility statistics for all US states. I chose the jVectorMap library because it was (and may still be) one of the only tools that supports scalable vector graphics in IE6. I packaged the project using JSON as acting database to ensure its portability as a standalone website that could easily be dropped into any environment.
