A few weeks ago welikesmall and I launched a new site for Sarofsky Corp. a design driven production house based out of Chicago, IL. They do amazing video work – I’m a big fan of theirs.

The site is running a 100% custom Django based CMS that allows users to easily upload new projects, including production stills, multiple videos, downloadable media and other information. It also includes an externally embeddable Flash video player that I wrote which allows users of the site to embed videos anywhere they want.

I did all of the development work – which utilizes both heavy Python scripting on the backend, but also quite a bit of jQuery work on the front-end. I ended up using SWFObject 1.5 because when I used 2.0 it wouldn’t allow me to effectively clear out an asynchronously loaded SWF and replace it with static content. Odd.

You can see this site @ http://www.sarofsky.com.

This is pretty exciting for me, and I think that after all of the hard work we put into that site the entire team at Odopod deserves a hearty congratulations… I’m really glad to see this site receiving the recognition that it deserves.

Also – it’s nice to see the CMS getting some of the attention – although I’m biased – because I wrote this one.

In the past few months I’ve launched a few projects – I’m planning an in-depth post about each of them, but for now here’s some images and links.

feliciaday.com

odopod.com

URL: http://www.timberlinelodge.com
Agency: Nemo
Role: Lead Developer
Technology: PHP / Wordpress

Featured in the Wordpress Showcase

URL: http://www.nemohq.com
AGENCY: Nemo
ROLE: Technical Architect, Wordpress Integration
TECHNOLOGIES: Flash, Ruby on Rails

URL: http://www.electroluxappliances.com/node58.aspx
AGENCY: Struck Creative / DDB-NY
LAUNCH: January 2008
ROLE: Lead Developer

I relied heavily upon Arthur Debert’s Bulk Loader to create this video and audio heavy media site. Media files load in the background and you view other content, to create as seemless an experience as possible.

URL: http://www.usedcarambush.com/
AGENCY: STRUCK Creative
LAUNCH: July 2008
ROLE: Lead Developer / Technical Architect

This was the last project that I worked on at STRUCK before I left for NEMO. The site is built entirely in ActionScript3 and I personally built the Papervision 3D powered van interior, and the media queue and streaming system.

URL: http://www.rebusfarms.com
AGENCY: Freelance
LAUNCH: August, 2008
ROLE: Lead Developer
TECHNOLOGIES: Flash, Python + Django, XHTML + CSS, jQuery

AGENCY: STRUCK Creative
LAUNCH: NOT YET LAUNCHED
ROLE: Lead Developer + Technical Architect
TECHNOLOGIES: Flash, C# .NET, AJAX

Built a Flash + AJAX powered front end on top of a commercial eCommerce engine to give the Pergo laminate floors website a fresh look. I spent a lot of time on the Flash + .NET communication layer, as well as re-writing the user account system and checkout process to work with Pergo’s specific needs.

URL: http://www.electroluxappliances.com/node98.aspx
AGENCY: STRUCK Creative
LAUNCH: January 2008
ROLE: Lead Developer
TECHNOLOGIES: Flash

Built a simple dynamic slideshow-like app for the Electrolux Experience section of their website. I had a lot of fun on this project because I had a chance to play with tile-based image presentation, and ended up using the open source ModestMaps project to do all of the tiling for the Kitchen Gallery.