2003

As a way to learn some ColdFusion basics, in 2003 I decided to implement a project I had been meaning to do for a long time in PHP: A central Bookmark manager. I never envisioned some of the social possibilities that del.icio.us has implemented since, but I was thinking along those lines.

While any web browser worth its salt has a feature for saving favorite URLs, users of more than one computer or browser (Mozilla, MSIE, Lynx, Opera, Home, work, laptop, etc) often find themselves with several different bookmark lists, each one out of sync.

Originally developed for Trinity Pawling School, WebGrades is a web application that allows student grades and comments to be exported from inResonance’s KEYSTONE SIS (Student Information System) to a PHP/MySQL web application via ODBC. Parents can log in and view their students’ grades, and administrators can log in and manage system settings. WebGrades was also deployed for The Harvey School.

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VOOT is a simple (‘vanilla’) PHP class written in 2003 for creating web pages with templates. It supports user-defined HTTP headers, and it is capable of processing PHP contained in rendered templates. This class was written with simplicity and flexibility in mind; templates can take the form of any text-based file, and you can define as many content placeholders as you like in each template. To indicate a placeholder in a template, you just surround a key word with percentage signs. VOOT was originally used to generate its own information and download page at my previous portfolio web site

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The Fund For Women Artists wanted a system that would allow artists to sign up for a free account, and create their own artist profile on the womenarts.org web site, searchable by name, location, or artistic interest. The system was build from scratch using PHP and MySQL, and currently supports more than 800 artist profiles at .

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