Pet-Projects

Testilia

Multi-test quiz system.

Simple application to store and manage online tests.

CVS exams digester, user management, user history tracking.

Dates: 2010.

Client: -

Tasks: Idea and development.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Ruby on Rails.

Code: Testilia's Github repository.

theKidsArtGallery

Public virtual gallery of paintings and drawings of children from around all countries and continents.

Multi-gallery system.

Dates: 2010.

Client: -

Tasks: Idea, development and promotion.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Ruby on Rails.

Code: (not available)

Arduino Phixter Visits

This is my very first Arduino experiment.

Although it is an Arduino centered project the truth is that the hardest part is on the WebService layer and and on the LocalServer layer.

Sockets connections.

Dates: 2010.

Client: -

Tasks: Arduino programming. Ruby desktop application programming. WebService programming.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Arduino, Java, Ruby.

Code: Github repository of Arduino Phixter Visits.

iPhone Verb Conjugations

This is the iPhone native app for other of my pet-projects: Verb Conjugations

Is a simple iPhone application that tries to help the people is learning Spanish to find out how verb is conjugated.

Dates: 2010.

Client: -

Tasks: iPhone development. Apple Bureaucracy Fighter :)

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Objective-C, Cocoa Touch Framework.

Code: Github repository of iPhone Verb Conjugations.

jQuery Font Party, JS library to convert normal text on image characters.

Experimental project. jQuery and javascript juggling.

Dates: 2010.

Client: -

Tasks: Java Script development.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: jQuery, Java Script.

Code: Github repository of FontParty.

BookZee, web service for search books on the New York public libraries.

The full application is composed by an iPhone App, a Web App, and the Web Service what offers support for the two first. The two last was on my charge.

The application was presented to a New York software application challenge: NYCBigApps, our app was on second place between 84 apps.

BookZee on the news: BookZee on the NY Daily News, BookZee on Wired online, BookZee on AM New York (PDF page 9), BookZee on SmokinApps.

Dates: 2009.

Client: -

Tasks: Web Service API and Web Application development.

Participation as: Senior Developer.

Technology: Ruby on Rails, ScrAPI.

iPhone App: BookZee iPhone App.

Code: (Not public).

Fernando Guillen is a fantastic developer. He concisely estimates of his skills and is constantly focusing on doing things right from both a technical and product value standpoint. He is passionate his work and does his best to ensure that everything functions excellently.

- Mike Cavaliere, BookZee's project manager.

iPhone Verb Conjugations, iphone web application for answer for spanish verb conjugations.

One friend of me said he missed a custom iphone application for answer for the spanish verb conjugations. He is english spoken but he is learning spanish. He said that with that kind of help he would be allowed to talk more intelligently.

So I decided to develop this application for him as a christmas present.

The first beta version was working on 3 hours.

It is a web application but try to looks like iPhone native one. Is not Rails but Sinatra. And the core of the application is a work of screen-scrapping another webs.

Dates: 2009.

Client: -

Tasks: Front and back development. Deployment. Systems maintenance.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Ruby, Sinatra, ScrAPI.

Code: Github repository of Verb Conjugations.

One of Zombies, arcade game.

This another experiment but this time not a web project but a game.

Ruby code using Gosu 2D game library.

Dates: 2009.

Client: -

Tasks: Illustration. Ruby coding.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Ruby.

Code: Github repository of One of Zombies.

Geo Alertas, your alerts on depending your position.

This is another RoR experiment when my RoR knowledge was still green. Experimenting with simple Rails app, ajax, ...

Geo location, Google Maps, phone geolocation integration.

Dates: 2008.

Client: -

Tasks: Design. Front and back development. Deployment. Systems maintenance.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Ruby on Rails.

Code: Google Code repository of GeoAlertas.

The Phone Baptizer, offer a name to you phone number.

Tool to offer a possible system to remember easily a phone number. Background algorithm. Ajax.

This is another RoR experiment when my RoR knowledge was still green. Experimenting with simple Rails app, ajax, ...

The whole application need an improvement, from the algorithm until the test coverture.

Dates: 2008.

Client: -

Tasks: Front and back development. Deployment. Systems maintenance.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Ruby on Rails.

Code: Github repository of The Phone Baptizer.

HolaPorQue, online store.

AdHoc online store. Multi-item. Galleries. Shopping cart. PayPal integration.

This has been my very first Ruby on Rails project. I focused it like an study exercise and I work on it without any idea about what RoR and Ruby was. This is because the code sucks :). But it is still up and working.

With a web design of HolaPorQue.

Dates: 2007.

Client: HolaPorQue S.L.

Tasks: Front and back development. Deployment. Systems maintenance.

Participation as: Project Manager.

Technology: Ruby on Rails.

Code: Github repository of HolaPorQue online store.