I got the idea to create this game after looking through the Ruby Quiz website. The Flex 3 SDK had just come out and I wanted to try it out. So, instead of writing this in Ruby, I wrote it in AS3 using the Flex 3 SDK. The swf is 6kb, the levels files is 13kb (50 levels) and the graphics files add up to 7kb for a total of 26kb.
TIP: press the 'h' key for the ability to navigate to the next and previous levels.

I developed the product presentation pages for the ThorMX website. This involved creating several reusable Flash components that displayed the products in a highly interactive and fresh way.

This is a highly interactive piece that was the final activity in a large K-12 initiative for teaching an anti-drug curriculum. Students can create a comic strip and then print it out to show to teachers and friends.

One of my projects as Type A was to build a calendar and scheduling application. I was in charge of every step of the process, from concept and design to development and deployment.

Some features of this application include

• Multiple calendar views (year, month, week, date range)
• Event scheduling
• Events can be filtered by user, location, and category
• Repeatable events (repeat by year, month, week, day, every other day, etc.)
• Ability to track employee capacity (how busy an employee is)
• Built using php and MySQL
  

The majority of my career has been spent developing online courseware. Much of the time, this courseware is launched and tracked in Learning Management Systems. At Type A, we decided that if we were going to be dealing with LMS's a lot, we should have our own so that we could test our courses before we delivered them to our clients.

It was my responsibility to draw up the plans and build a "mini-LMS" as we called it. This LMS is AICC and SCORM compliant (I was responsible for the AICC specs, the SCORM compliancy came later). If I thought I knew AICC before I built this LMS, I was just kidding myself -- building this LMS made me realize the complexities of LMS standards.

Quotes about the library:
"Josh is amazing! Below is an e-mail outlining a new library program that he built. We're going to test this out for the next week. If it works well, I'd like to ask him to help us pilot it through the organization. Keeping track of XML is a huge hassle and organizational task, but necessary because version control is a major risk. Assuming this works it could be a pretty big step for us."
~ Sal Venegas, Project Manager

"Josh has created a library system for xml files that will allow us to 'check out' xml files and prevent any two us from being in a file at the same time. From what little I've seen, it's very cool and easy to use. Very intuitive interface."
~ Bridget McManus, Content Developer

"Just wanted to let you know how well the XML Library works that you created. This seems like a big leap forward when it comes to organizing XML files. It's much easier for the content team to make sure we're properly backing up files and will cut down on version control problems. And it seems like it'll be easier for the Software Engineers to identify which files are the most recent ones. Thanks again!"
~ Colleen Burke, Project Manager

"...we're using it on the Wal-Mart ASL Conversion team and we love. Imagine how hard it would be to track 260 XML's simultaneously.
Thanks, Josh."
~ Paul Calhoun, Software Engineer

As a precursor to a large training application, I was in charge of building an animation which would spark interest in the the target audience. The animation was to include characters that would also be used in the training application, so reusability was a must.

My solution was to create a library of characters that could be animated using simple Actionscript calls and some frame tweening. By creating this library, we were able to hire interns to do the bulk of the animating, saving production time and budget dollars.

The Sales Demo here is a portion of the initial animation. The Interactive Animation piece is a little demo that I put together to showcase how I had built the animations.

View the Sales Demo (high-speed connection recommended)

View the Interactive Animation