Online home and portfolio of Chad A.

A Bit About Me

I'm a passionate web developer. I believe good UI design leads to great back-end development and vice versa. I'm not a fan of spaghetti code. While developing something in record time is great, spending tons of additional hours trying to update, evolve, and maintain a jumbled mess of programming is not my idea of a day well spent. MVC anyone?

I've been developing and designing web applications and websites for around 4-5 years now. I write standards-compliant front and back end code. I do not blend presentation logic with business logic. I write strict XHTML and CSS and never design websites with tables!

Since June of 2010 I have been working exclusively on ShortTrack, a custom real estate management software for Mortgage Mitigators. The software is also used by various other brokerages, and a very large Title Company in the Midwest. This software requires full-time development and maintenance with a codebase of 50,000+ lines of PHP, Javascript, CSS, XHTML, and MYSQL.

What I'm Into

Python

experience: 2.1 years

Developing browser-based apps, websites, and portfolios in mod_python, mod_wsgi, and more recently Django. This site is built with Django and WSGI.

Php

experience: 4.0 years

Building browser-based apps. OO PHP 5 and procedural. Using PHP 5.3.3 these days.

Currently the Architect and Maintainer of ShortTrack, a custom-built, short sales real estate management software used by various brokerages, title companies, and Mortgage Mitigators.

Actionscript

experience: 3.2 years

I've been using Flash and ActionScript for a few years. I don't use it too much these days. I'm not a huge fan of 100% Flash-based sites (primarily because of SEO and code maintenance).

Javascript

experience: 4.0 years

Everything from custom AJAX engines to extending Javascript itself.

Ajax

experience: 3.5 years

While I like to roll my own AJAX engines I have come to love jQuery these days.