"NewsStand" is the code name for my current project. It is being developed for Broadway Partners, Inc. to act as a local portal for various types of information. NewsStand is a large system that implements support for Local and World syndicated news, business directories, hotel listings, blogs and classified ads. We hope to launch the first "NewsStand" portal by the end of November.
My first Ruby Gem, WeatherMan, allows developers to programatically access the weather.com XML API feed. This makes it easy to quickly show the weather for any location around the world on a website or desktop application built with Ruby. You can learn more about WeatherMan by reading this blog post I wrote about it.
World Vision needed a donation portal to support their project '30 Hour Famine'. Their project allows for people to donate money to a student of their choice. Depending on how the student's account is set up the donation will be processed by one of two payment processors. The donation portal should launch in November 08.
Lyon Financial, one of the country's largest pool loan financing offices, needed an intranet application to replace the use of Access databases and scattered documents. This application needed to track pool dealers, products, loan officers, employee tasks, and various other dealer related documents.
Local firestopping company, R.S. Blythe, came to Codeword: Studios looking for a way to increase visibility in their market. What they got was a new corporate logo, a modern website design, and a way to manage their growing portfolio.