Date Check Pro is a startup that was part of the 94 Labs tech incubator over the summer of 2011.  I was hired by Andrew Hoeft the CEO/Founder to build the site.  Date Check Pro is a SaaS product that helps grocery stores manage their expiring inventory.  We started planning the site at the beginning of June and were testing with Festival Foods by the middle of July.

I built this site with Kohana and it’s designed to work equally well on a laptop or tablet. In order to expedite development and to encourage design consistency I designed the application using the OOCSS methodology so everything in the application is designed as a reusable CSS building block.

In order to get an inexpensive professional design for the homepage we headed over to ThemeForest and picked up the Freemium Saas II HTML Theme and it only took me one night to customize it for our content.

I’m really happy with how the site turned out.  Andrew Hoeft and I have a lot of great ideas for how we will evolve this application.  Our next project is to add a mobile version so our customers who are on a tight budget can deploy using less expensive devices like an iPod touch.

When the UW Foundation decided to relaunch and redesign their site on WordPress I was contacted to develop a new staff directory for them similar to LinkedIn. I built this as a plugin using jQuery against their existing SOAP web service.

I took on Flames Rising as a project in 2009 when they decided to migrate from a forum to a new WordPress blog.  Since then I have helped Matt & Monica through several redesigns.  I’m their go-to guy when they want to customize or add features to the website.

One custom plugin I developed for them was the Horror Plot Generator which creates a random horror plot for writers who want to get some inspiration.

I continue to work with Flames Rising and we have many new features in the queue for 2011.