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A little bit about me...
My name is Steve Glassner. I am 27 years old, born and raised in the Akron/Canton area of Ohio. Outside of web programming, I enjoy gaming, the esports scene (mainly starcraft 2), reddit, star trek, fishing, accoustic guitar, day9, movies, and just plain relaxing.
I've been interested in web work since my freshman year of high school. Started off with programming in flash, director, html, asp, visual basic, javascript, and c++. Went from their to college at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where I received a bachelor's degree in interactive media design.
My current programming interests are mainly javascript, jquery, and sql queries. Why sql queries? Well I haven't found many things in the programming world that is more satisfying than taking nested loops with many sql calls, and transforming it into a single query. Very fun! I'm also a well rounded php programmer, doing it for about 4 years. It's not my favorite language, but the community is huge, and it's a time proven solution.
A little more...
My past work experiences have taught me many things... I may not be the best php programmer, or the best javascript programmer, but I've dabbled in just about everything. I've work with dosens of api's, migrated c# sites to php, duplicated a whole server and rebranded every sub website, countless web forms, eCommerce sites, custom back-ends, license key generation, click tracking, wikis, cms's, subscription based sites, rss feeds, json, flash, document management systems and so on and so on... Ask me anything.
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Miller Weldmaster
MCA Industries
MCA Industries was in need of a new corporate site. It was implemented into a cms called concrete5, which is a very easy to use cms for non-technical people, but powerful enough for developers. Along with the cms, MCA was provided with an xml driven, jquery implemented portfolio piece.
- Corporate Site ( live )
Fund Our Cause
FundOurCause.com is an custom eCommerce site, with something special. It features a custom backend, that allows the client to upload logos of companies, to be overlayed products they are selling. This was accomplished using php's gd library.
- FundOurCause Site ( live )
Miracle Recreation
For Miracle Recreation, my responsibility was to piggy-back their existing mysql database (used by joomla for their corporate site) and creating an admin, which would then supply data needed to populate their iPad app.
- iPad App ( itunes )
About
jQuery is my javascript library of choice. I've been using it for 1-2 years. The syntax is straight forward, the cross-browser selectors are amazing, ajax is easy to do, and the effects are just cool. Add a ton of plugins, plus constant updates, plus accurate documentation, and we have a winner. Outside of jQuery, I have been really focusing on relearning javascript, based off of reading "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford of Yahoo. Please go to my gallery and see Miller Weldmaster's Distributor System based off my new found love of javascript.
PHP is my server language of choice. I've been strictly programming in it for roughly 4 consecutive years. It does have it's nuances, but time and time again it gets the job done. All open source content management systems that I've worked with use it, so going away from the community is difficult. I've also have lots of experience working with classic asp, and also a very small amount with c#. With frameworks like CodeIgnitor and zend out there, I don't think I'll be dropping php anytime soon. On the other hand, I would really love to get a chance to learn python.
I prefer to work with MySQL databases, but don't mind getting my hands dirty in some Microsoft SQL. XML and JSON are great transport databases that have experience using as well. SQL queries are one of my favorite things to program!
Rather than telling you what my favorite CMS is (I don't have one), I'll just list out the one's I have implemented: Typo3, concrete5, wordpress, and magento. I've installed, templated, and added custom modules to each of them.
I've implemented many different merchant accounts, via their api's, including: authorize.net, 2checkout, payjunction, first data, paypal/payvment, and a couple I've never heard of (and can't remember.) I have worked on two magento driven eCommerce sites, that included templating and custom modules.
Standards compliant. I cannot deliver a website with invalid code, which means I know what and where code can used. Valid XHTML and CSS are in my arsenal. As browsers become more standardized with HTML5, my focus with markup be entireley on that.
