About

yjsoon occasionally updates this page. And talks about himself in the third person.

Projects

Some projects I’ve worked on, and what I (think I) learned.

  • stupidchicken. Webcomic site done with WordPress and ComicPress; comics themselves done with a variety of methods (index-cards + scan, whiteboard + photograph, sketch + scan + Flash with tablet + Photoshop, most recently tablet + Illustrator).
  • Die, Flash, Die. Tumblr-hosted site about my least favourite web plugin, with a design by the brilliant Bill Israel. Not much tech effort here from me.
  • grinningpanda: My friends and I used to do tech projects for non-profits. Perhaps someday we will again.
  • Stefen Chow, Feng Studios. Photography site for a friend. Flash and ActionScript, swfobject, some prototype+scriptaculous, a dash of PHP+XML. The man has since updated his site at stefenchow.com — my link goes to my last working version.
  • Raffles Institution. Site design overhaul and implementation of a custom (though feature-incomplete) content management system. A good refresher for me on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, mootools, PHP and XML. The school’s updated their site to a new (all-Flash, sigh) post-merger site, so this is an archive of the old front page.
  • Bond Counter and the suspiciously similar NS Counter. Simple Facebook countdown applications. Facebook library, PHP, MySQL.
  • Gene and Jean’s wedding slideshow. iMovie and Keynote.
  • Wings. Redesign and deployment of drupal CMS with some custom plugins. Drupal, PHP, XHTML, CSS.
  • Some logos for the Singapore government: Progress Package, GST Offset Package and Growth Dividends. Done in Photoshop.
  • Stanford Club of Singapore. Redesign using WordPress. WordPress theming and plugins, CSS, Plesk. I’ve since handed over control of the site, but it seems they’re still using my design from 2006.
  • Kopitiam Discussion Group. Education / civil society group. One of my first forays into XHTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL.
  • Teapots: Once Upon a Time in China and The Duckness of Space. High school projects done in 3ds Max and (I think) Adobe Premiere.

Equipment

  • MacBook Pro 15″, 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM, upgraded with 320GB drive
  • Mac Mini, 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB
  • Dell 24″ E248WFP
  • Wacom Intuos3 6×8 tablet
  • iPhone 3GS
  • iPod nano (2nd generation) for the car

Software

  • Graphics: Acorn, Adobe Web Premium CS4 (hooray, ridiculous education discount)
  • Web development: Transmit, Textmate, CSSEdit, Coda
  • Productivity: OmniFocus, Evernote, Quicksilver, Notational Velocity
  • Information: NetNewsWire, Tweetie for Mac, Pukka
  • iPhone: SimpleNote, Cha-Ching, Tweetie, Instapaper, Read It Later, Reeder

Chocolate

  • Cadburys Dairy Milk (UK). The Australian version is disgusting.
  • NUTELLA
  • NUTELLA CREPES
  • NUTELLA ICE CREAM
  • NUTELLA FRIED CHICKEN
  • NUTELLA PAN-SEARED DORY