Websites
Websites 2003-2007
This is a list of the major projects undertaken in the last four years.
2003:
Leaside Business Park AssociationBasic CMS system for managing news stories and listing member companies. Re-wrote in 2006 to include a new map system using Google's mapping technology and performance improvements.
Work began on Dine.TO using a database-driven design that stored web pages inside a database instead of seperate files, along with a ColdFusion-style template system to allow non-developers to create database-driven components.
2005:
Dine.TOA first-generation restaurant/entertainment portal for the city of Toronto, Canada. Major features included a then-new searching system designed specifically to search restaurant listings, a mobile (WAP 2.0) version accessible on mobile phones and a customer management (myCP) that allowed restaurant clients to collect statistics on visitors to their profile and send e-mails to members. Other features added later included: sending SMS messages to other users and e-mailing restaurant profiles.
Lounge666A night-life/social networking/dating website that intended to let visitors search other members' profiles, exchange messages, view galleries, sign-up for club promotions and join VIP lists. Features included a mobile/WAP2.0 version of the site that allowed checking who was on-line at the time and forum post updates.
YYZtech.caA news website covering technology issues in the Toronto area. Features included a front-page system that picked topics based on the number of stories and time since-last-update in a category to only display topics where there was new or lots of content available.
2006:
EdmontonDining.comA customized version of Dine.TO licenced to a company in Edmonton, Alberta.
Late 2006: SimcoeDining.comA listing service for restaurants in the area of Simcoe Country (located in southern Ontario, roughly an hour's drive north of Toronto, Canada).
Summer 2007:
Halifax-Restaurants.comSearchable guide to restaurants in the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada area. Innovations included a natural search (e.g. "pub on barrington") based on "tagging" places with various keywords.
Dine.TO API:First developed for for EyeWeekly's website, this allowed 3rd-party websites to perform searches on Dine.TO's database and display them as part of their own site, see: restaurantstoronto.com for an example.
Dine.TO 2:A re-write of the original Dine.TO website started in 2003. Features included a new searching system with a more advanced tagging system than used in Halifax-Restaurants.com. Essentially this builds on the lessons learned since the 2005 release of Dine.TO.