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Mike Fotinakis
Archive for 2009
As a side project, a few friends and I decided to build a multi-touch interaction surface. We had no expertise or knowledge at all in the area, but we attempted it regardless—simply to satisfy our curiosity and because multi-touch interfaces are rapidly changing the way we all think about UI design.
This was a fascinating side-project and I would love to pursue multi-touch programming further. It was also quite fun to research and complete something very different than my day to day programming tasks.
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- Tags: C#, Multi-touch, UI, XNA
My first project to utilize the USU Django infrastructure was an online voting application that students would use to elect the University’s student body officers.
This was a relatively simple project, but a good showcase of my methods for simple, intuitive user interface design with an emphasis on accessibility—all prototyped, designed, and implemented rapidly to meet a deadline.
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- Tags: Accessibility, Apache, Django, Graphic Design, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Linux, OOP, PostgreSQL, Python, UI, Web Design
I am always looking for ways to speed up development and automate processes that I do over and over. In particular, I try to engineer systems that help avoid the usual headaches associated with deployment processes because they are usually very convoluted and error-prone.
To this end, I engineered Utah State University’s Django hosting infrastructure for instant deployment of new sites, use of modular common code, easy inline documentation with automatic HTML generation, and fast updates to live sites.
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- Tags: Apache, Deployment, Django, Documentation, Fabric, Linux, mod_wsgi, Python, Sphinx
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Mike Fotinakis's Portfolio
Welcome to the chronicle of my professional work, topped with a dash of personal projects. Feel free to contact me; I am always looking for new opportunities and to meet new people.
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