NDP Software 

Compelling Software • Design & Construction

About NDP Software

NDP Software

A portfolio of selected software projects

About
Andrew Peterson

Resume / C.V.

Start-ups, consulting, non-profits...

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Blog & Geek

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Clients

 

Companies, clients and people we've worked with.

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Aardvark

Software Engineering Collaboration

I led the initial development in collaboration with the Aardvark team, building a prototype that evolved into the core engine.

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Interactive Reference

Googling for character entities and glyphs is challenging. This visual search attempt to solve it.

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Ux Spoke

Visualization

Common Software Usability Questions: As you develop or refine a software product, it's easy to get stuck in a rut, running tests that aren't that helpful or focusing on Google Analytics. That tool that worked so well may no longer be the right tool for the questions you have now. The UX/Spoke tool is designed to help you explore many of the different tools in common practice.

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What the Git?!#&

Interactive Visualization

As I dove into learning Git, I needed some way to understand where my code was "distributed." This is my visualization as I figured this out.

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Agile Processes

Visualization

A quick visualization to understand the differences between "agile", XP, scrum, etc.

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Programming Languages I've Used

Visualization

I wondered what visualizations make sense on a resume. Here's a quick chart of the programming languages I've used. Created to demonstrate concise CSS and Javascript style.

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Story Mapper

Visualization

I built the first prototype of this and contributed to ongoing dev and project management.

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Bedsider

Software Engineering Collaboration

I led development in collaboration with IDEO on the nation's first "birth control support network".

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Hibernate Mapping

Cheatsheet

Popular developer reference.

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JSP XML

Cheatsheet

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Csster

CSS within Javascript

Development Tool

Concisely generates CSS style rules within Javascript. Features:

  • standard "object literal" format
  • nesting to DRY up stylesheets
  • color functions like darken and saturate
  • built-in macros for common CSS idioms like clearfix, rounded corners, drop shadows
  • extension points.
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Ayudante

Ruby Gem

TestUnit test helpers for pre- and post-conditions and a few other items missing from RoR.

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Scriptaculous Effects Demo

Visualization

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CSS Best Practices

Technical Writing

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Wizardize

JQuery plugin

Standard HTML forms behave as wizards!

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Show Char Limit

JQuery plugin

Echos characters available within input/textarea fields.

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Color Spy

JQuery plugin

A simple eye-dropper plugin to determine colors from elements.

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BootyLog

Prototype & Visualizations

(currently not available)

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chklistr

Site Prototype

Find, use and share all sorts of checklists.

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difftionary

Site prototype

An online dictionary of distinctions.

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