I have been playing a mobile game, Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes for a bit. I really liked a tracking website, so I made my own tracker inspired by that website over a month or so. If you don't play, type in 371777783 to see how I'm doing!
![Screenshot of SWGOH Tracker](images/swgoh.jpg)
We use an iPhone 4s as our bedside clock and we needed one that displayed the weather and the time and the day. So I made one.
![Screenshot of Bedside Clock](images/clock.jpg)
I re-programmed an old game I made in Visual Basic at some summer teacher conference about computer animation. It's a game to help students practice their knowledge of coordinate transformations.
![Screenshot of Transformations Game](images/transformations.jpg)
I needed a pretty weird test score adjusting program for school and I added some nice looking graphs for my class so I can show students how they did on tests.
This web app was featured on the site that hosts the school as a thing that people can make when they take this class. So I guess that's good. I tried to be funny, as well. Maybe I could be a programmer after all if I just worked hard at it? So, no, then.
![Screenshot of jQuery RPG](images/rpg.jpg)
I took a class in spring of 2015 on HTML/CSS/jQuery. I do that when I think about career change. It was part one of a four-part path to becoming a programmer. But do I really want to do that? CAN I really do that now that I'm old? This game is a good indicator that maybe I shouldn't. I got a good grade on this, though.
![Screenshot of Racing Game](images/racing.jpg)
More of my work from the class I took. This is an exploration of sorting principles. I wanted to know how to sort by color, so I spent a lot of time figuring that out. The animation is pretty bad so I didn't get a spectacular grade on this one.
![Screenshot of Crayon Sorter](images/crayons.jpg)
More of my work from the class I took. This is an exploration of sorting principles. I wanted to know how to sort by color, so I spent a lot of time figuring that out. The animation is pretty bad so I didn't get a spectacular grade on this one.
![Screenshot of 2-3-4-5 Solver](images/2345.jpg)
I'm working on a simple seating chart maker. Well, I have big plans for it (seating by demographic, preferential seating, etc.), but lost motivation a bit, so it might never get done. Right now, it's just a basic randomizer of whatever names you type in.
![Screenshot of Seating Chart Creator](images/seats.jpg)
I made this website. It has a lot of lists and I make different versions every couple years as a hobby.
![Screenshot of thedonproject.com](images/donproject.jpg)
[Other versions available sometime]
I made a real simple RSVP program for my 5th and 10th anniversary with my partner.
![Screenshot of anniversary.thedonproject.com](images/anniversary.jpg)
[Other version available sometime]
I created a fantasy rally game for U.S. rally series.
![Screenshot of propicks.demonrally.com](images/propicks.jpg)
[Other versions available sometime]
I maintain our rally team's website and a wordpress installation there.
![Screenshot of demonrally.com](images/demonrally.jpg)
[Other versions available sometime]
I helped my partern and her friend create and host a podcast about movies. Subscribe!
![Screenshot of emersonvscook.com](images/emersonvscook.jpg)
I test out ideas for the rally community at this domain. I haven't finished an idea there. Yet.
![Screenshot of co-driver.info](images/co-driver.jpg)
[Other versions available sometime]
I customized a tumblr theme for my partner.
![Screenshot of nataliesplatalie.tumblr.com](images/natalie.jpg)
I made a website to remember my dad.
![Screenshot of phil-burress.com](images/dad.jpg)
I maintained an RSVP and player stats page for my co-rec soccer team for a while.
![Screenshot of crazymonkeyattack.com](images/crazymonkeyattack.jpg)
I created the website for my most recent band.
![Screenshot of exempli.com](images/exempli.jpg)
I created the website for my high school band.
![Screenshot of exit177.com](images/exit177.jpg)
I made a website for my teaching career.
![Screenshot of misterburress.com](images/misterburress.jpg)
I made a semi-honest living selling advertising and sharing the profits in the early 2000's until the market dried up.
![Screenshot of web-earners.com](images/web-earners.jpg)
I started to make a facebook plugin right before plugins became very obsolete. Oh well.
![Screenshot of facebook record listing app](images/facebook.jpg)
In college, I crafted some fun UNIX shell scripts for a class.
I made a couple animations in a summer program I took early in my teaching career. They were programmed in VISUAL BASIC. Ugh.
I taught a one hour course on HTML in 1996 at college. I don't know how I got that gig, but I'm pretty sure I did a bad job.
![Screenshot of a 1996 HTML reference](images/html.jpg)
I worked for a while as a video game tester. It didn't pay well, but it was sort of fun, I guess. Here's the games I worked on that I remember (mostly uncredited).
![Screenshot of video game testing](images/testing.jpg)
NASCAR 2000 (PlayStation 1)
Nintendo (Redmond, WA)
Mickey's Speedway USA (European version, GameBoy Color)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Gameboy Advanced)
Wave Race: Blue Storm (GameCube)
Pokemon Stadium (N64, but I only worked on it for a day)
Mario Party 3? (N64, but again, only for a day or two)