I developed this container to solve specific needs and alleviate pain points present when dealing with deployment and administration of MySQL on servers that I manage.
Tutoring Website United Kingdom & South Africa
For this project it was important to consider the target audience. Many people in South Africa, especially in schools, use older versions of Windows and Internet Explorer. These are the people that are most likely to visit this website to evaluate the company. Thus one of the primary objectives of this project was compatibility with Internet Explorer 7 and up.
DevOps
Soon after I started working with Rails, I wanted to start using my own server environment, instead of a managed hosting. I wanted to be able to use any kind of libraries, their versions and any other tools my projects required on my server, set up the way I need it. Thus I got my first VPS.
EQAFE – Ecommerce
This is one of the first projects where I started using Rails in production. EQAFE developed—over the years—from a simple checkout page to sell a single book to an ecommerce platform featuring thousands of products, affiliate program, gifts and more.
DIP Lite: E-learning Platform
DIP Lite is a free e-learning platform. Its fully automated in-browser experience connects the users with a personally assigned “buddy”: an experienced person that overviews and assist the user throughout the course. The user walks the course on her own pace as well as engage in daily exercises, complete with email notifications and communication with the course buddy provided by the course platform.
Projects Overview in 2012
These are some of the projects I’ve launched during 2012. This year was interesting as I switched from mainly using PHP as a backend language to Ruby (on Rails). Switching to Ruby was a welcome refreshment, the syntax is so close to natural language. I really enjoy the way it allows one to express the idea in code. There is little I need to say about Rails.
Equal Money System Website
The goal for this project was to create a presentation which immediately engages the user and allows them to interact with the website and information in a meaningful fashion. Therefore, instead of a static presentation, we came up with easy to use and immediately available voting in relation to the goals of the project that is being presented.
DIP Pro – Online Course Delivery Platform
E-learning project similar to DIP Lite but for more serious and advanced students, providing much more features including credit card payments, commission payouts, file (course material) delivery, multiple different courses divided into years and months and API for integration with other projects.
Calibrium – Services for Laboratories in Construction Business
Another project succesfully finished and launched. A simple presentation for a Slovak company providing services for laboratories in construction business. I provided and executed the whole presentation, from graphic design to integration with WordPress content management system.
Wallpaper fun
I’ve set a task for myself to expand my skills each day by learning something new either in programming or in design.