Michael Cole

As an engineer, I needed to understand where VR fits into the web. WebVR and the browser are capable platforms for experiencing VR. Phones and desktop browsers are supported today, but the tools are not as complete as specialty engines like Unreal Engine. This is a prototype using WebAssembly to visualize the n-body problem using WebVR on your modern mobile phone.

Quasar is a front-end framework that uses Vue.js and Vuex. FeathersJS is a back-end Node.js and Express framework with multiple types of transport such as REST, Socket.IO, and Primus.

I created integration code and authentication forms for this experiment to learn both frameworks and foster open source. The Quasar team picked up the idea for their Quasar app extension.

I enjoyed giving this talk on MapReduce. MapReduce is a parallel processing algorithm, and this slide deck makes it interactive where the audience creates a dataset of animals and then maps or reduces it to answer questions. We looked at some JavaScript code examples and finished with a MongoDB map-reduction of the Wikipedia title database. I've done this talk in Calgary, Vancouver, and Portland, and it's always a hit!

This is an introduction to web and service workers that sets the stage for understanding how to create offline-first Progressive Web Applications (PWA), where "progressive" means work on browsers that don't support offline or PWA.

A fantastic project I built from mockups to beta in six weeks. It involved visualizing medical data for doctors so they could search by symptom or disease for related information and indications. It's a MEAN stack app (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node.js) built with a Neo4j graph database to facilitate a stronger graph search.

My client designed SNTools.me for an accounting consultancy. The consultancy wanted to automate and market their expertise in analyzing a company's financial numbers. They were managing the process with lots and lots of spreadsheets.

As the lead implementer on the team, we built the web app reports and upload API, and managed the integration with a third-party .NET connector. The app allowed users to analyze their Quickbooks data, upload a summary, and see custom reports and aggregation. We built a customizable report calculation and display engine using an RPN calculator with tokens.

We used Symfony2, Doctrine, MongoDB, Backbone, REST API, Quickbooks, and .NET integration.

Drupal is a LAMP stack CMS similar to Wordpress.

I created a downloadable PHP development environment using VIrtualBox VM. At the time, setting up a debugging environment in Linux was a big challenge for devs coming from Windows.

Drupal Quickstart packaged a working dev environment into a downloadable VM that just worked. This decreased the learning curve for new open source contributers.

I also created YouTube tutorials for the project which got 50,000+ views.