chadedge dot-com
personal blog related to technology, coding and publishing.
personal blog related to technology, coding and publishing.
On this page I will attempt to describe my current, recent, and older projects for which I am a developer, designer, or have participated.
I am not currently available for other projects or to be employed (I’m happy with the work I do and the company for which I work). I am a member of several Seattle Meetup.com groups (MySQL, Web Technology, and PHP) and will be happy to discuss or troubleshoot with you at those meetings any technical problems you may have. Some information I’ll keep close to my heart as it’s either a trade secret, or I just don’t want to give away all my services. I’m sure you understand.
Project Type(s):
Design, iPhone, Web
Project Type(s):
Contract, Design, Web
Pat and TJ have asked Justine and I to redesign the Desolation Clothing Web site, and we’ll be happily launching by mid to end of December, 2006. They have a Web site online now, and I highly recommend you check out their clothes as well as their list of shops where you can pick up these one-of-a-kind designs (created by Justine!)
Update: The Desolation Clothing Web site has been taken offline per the request of the owner, Patrick Corcorran. Since Deso (as they like to be called) hasn’t been printing for awhile, it made sense to stop spending money on the site and further development.
I’m sure they’ll be back soon!
Project Type(s):
Print, Web, iPhone, Design, Business
From the OSNAP.net homepage:
We’re a promotion machine. Our core goal is to gain more exposure for you – whether you’re in a band, a soloist, a venue, a label, or even a radio show. Exposure to us means getting more fans out for your shows, buying your songs/albums, and tuning in.
The whole idea started in 1998/1999 when our founder, Chad Edge, got fed up by hearing about ‘the greatest show ever’ – that of course happened last night! So Chad, with the help of some great developers, marketing minds, and supporters starting building OSNAP.net.
OSNAP.net is a massive gateway (now over 69,000 bands in our system) where anyone can publish and distribute upcoming live show information.There’s a great write-up about OSNAP.net over at the OSNAP.net Web site.
Project Type(s):
Web, Print
Find what you want, and find out what you want
Project Type(s):
Web, Design, Contract
The site features most of the applications I use on my client’s Web sites (photo galleries, blogging, admin panel, etc), with one new addition: the ability to switch site themes 100% using the admin interface. I’ve basically created my own Wordpress Theme Engine, without using Wordpress or any other developed solutions. I’m proud of myself for that.
Project Type(s):
Web, Design, Contract
Project Type(s):
Web, Design, Contract
The site, still running as one Flash file, allows visitors to brows the entire printed catalog of custom door options, as well as build a ‘cart’ of door, transoms, sidepanels, etc that the user would like to receive more contact information on.
The site uses the same images and much of the same content from the printed catalog (current as of 2006), and has worked silently since 2006. I hope in the coming months to upgrade the hosting account for Buffelen and offer them a free upgrade on their Web site to a more standard layout (using XML for much of the data layer, and some minimal Jquery effects to handle the presentation). Codeigniter might make an appearance on this site as well.
Project Type(s):
Web, Design, Contract
Project Type(s):
Web, Employer
The best feature of this tool is the ability for photographers to easily assign IPTC tags to fields in the image, which are then processed by internal tools of my employer (Media Factory to name one). The IPTC tags can be automated to user or system-wide defaults and standards, or edited on-the-fly (per image).
There’s a bit of AJAX (Jquery) going on, and a little GD2 action as well, but the whole application can operate with or without any additions such as PEAR or GD or LDAP/AD if necessary (a necessity as the final host of the application is still undecided).
Project Type(s):
Web, Design, Contract
Project Type(s):
Web, Employer
Project Type(s):
Web, Print, Design, Employer
Again, I will not be sharing this system with the public, but I have in the past asked technical questions regarding its use (most recently, how to handle a drag-and-drop interface of assets in a browser that will force a multi-page printout or PDF using only Divs). It’s fun work, and challenging as well.
Savings to employer: $30,000/year in licensing, hardware, etc.
Savings to users: hours/week in speed improvements.
Project Type(s):
Web, Employer
The system is built similarly to the image server (modular, built with components that allow for easy portability and translation to other hardware/software combinations).
This application will be hosted both behind the corporate firewall, as well as contest forms and services hosted outside on the public Internet.
This has become one of my favorite products to develop. It’s rare that one gets to “skunkworks” a project – no deadlines, no expectations.
Project Type(s):
Web, Design, Contract
1. Photo sharing
2. Advanced blogging tools
3. A dash of AJAX – appropriate, I promise!
4. A little bit of fun for me
5. A twitter account with constant event and specials updates
Update: The Whisky Bar Web site has been taken offline per the request of the owner, Brian Pickering. I’m not 100% happy about this, as even just a homepage/map/directions/about plug would be a positive thing for the bar, but the owner must be satisfied. Hopefully they’ll be back online with the new design soon!