Web Technology Professional, Gamer, Musician, Bike Rider, and Dad
Archived Code Projects
Not every project is meant to last forever — but every project teaches something.
This archive contains older development projects, open-source experiments, utilities, prototypes, and retired applications built throughout different stages of my development journey. Some were learning exercises. Some explored new frameworks or technologies. Others laid the groundwork for larger systems and platforms that continue today.
While many of these projects are no longer actively maintained, they remain an important part of the evolution of my work as a developer, architect, and platform builder.
The technologies may change.
The workflows may evolve.
But the process of building, experimenting, and learning never really stops.
Bonfire
The Bonfire project was an open source admin dashboard framework for PHP. It is built on top of the excellent CodeIgniter MVC framework. It strives to reduce the time and effort to build web applications featuring admin dashboards by providing a comprehensive yet flexible solution. Find out more about it at the Bonfire web site.
I contributed several new features to the core project and developed several add-on modules for download as well. Click on the individual module projects to learn more.
I have tutorials that go into more detail about the library as well as setting up a custom Bonfire module for deployment on the framework.
Bonfire Modules I’ve created or contributed to (with links to the Github projects) include:
Bonfire News Create, manage and publish news articles for Bonfire Web sites. Contains advanced features like an integrated Rich Text editor, image attachments and comments support.
Bonfire Comments A lightweight, content agnostic module that allows developers to add support for comments to other Bonfire modules. This module currently has built in support in both my News and OOTP Storylines modules.
Bonfire Navigation A module by Bonfire contributor Sean Downey that lets sites admins build custom navigation menus for Bonfire apps.
A collaborative open source development platform developed using the Bonfire admin dashboard. In addition to a custom Bonfire fork, the FOSP featured a number of specific Bonfire modules aimed at both providing must have online sports stats features as well as tools for mod developers to build their own sports modules.
