yjsoon

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).
• GuestDay. Still designing and developing.
• bamboobot. A PDF publishing site, which I’m not sure we’ll ever pick up and fully develop. Developed on Rails, but I did mostly design work on this one.
• grinningpanda: We used to do tech projects, mostly for non-profits.
• 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. XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, mootools, PHP, XML.
• 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.
• 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