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2018--present: I helped build the static website for The World Transformed, which is a left political festival in Liverpool from Sept 22-25 that you should definitely check out. Source on [GitHub]( https://github.com/dellsystem/the-world-transformed); design by Arby Hisenaj & Jack Thorpe |
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2017--present: A personal project I've been working on to help me retain information from all the books I've been reading. Currently running at [bookmarker.dellsystem.me]( http://bookmarker.dellsystem.me) for my own use only but I'd love to expand it into a free tool that anyone can use. [Source code on GitHub]( https://github.com/dellsystem/bookmarker) (MIT license) |
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2013--2014: As the IT Director for [ctlibre.com]( http://ctlibre.com), a web-based revival of the Canadian publication Cité Libre founded in 1950, I built and managed the Django-based website. Though fairly simple in scope compared to some of my past Django projects, the requirements of multilingual support (English and French) and a mobile-responsive, user-friendly design presented fun challenges. |
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2013--2014: Reprising my role as the Undersecretary–General, IT for McMUN 2014, I improved the system I had built for McMUN 2013 and overhauled the website design, complete with a new logo for McMUN's 25th anniversary. Everything is [available on GitHub]( https://www.github.com/dellsystem/mcmun-2014). |
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2012--2013: As the Undersecretary–General, IT for the 2013 edition of this university-level UN conference at McGill, I again redesigned the site and built a custom content management system, this time with Django. The source is again [available on GitHub]( https://www.github.com/dellsystem/mcmun-2013). |
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2011--2014: As a student researcher in the [Network Dynamics Lab]( http://networkdynamics.org/) (part of McGill University's School of Computer Science), I wrote code, ran experiments, and analysed data, mostly in the field of demographic inference with regard to Twitter. I also created the interface for [a visualisation of Christmas wishes on Twitter]( http://xmas2012.networkdynamics.org); before that, I designed the interface for [an interactive visualisation of the 2012 US presidential election, in tweets]( http://election.networkdynamics.org/). |
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2011: As the Undersecretary–General, IT for the 2011 edition of this high school Model United Nations conference at McGill, I redesigned the site and built a content management and registration system around phpBB. The source is [available on GitHub]( https://www.github.com/dellsystem/ssuns-2011), though the usefulness of the repository is limited to historical value, as the site no longer uses that codebase (and, to be honest, it was pretty awful). |
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2011--2012: diva.js is an open source document viewer for high-resolution scanned documents, particularly old sheet music, that was designed for high performance. There's a frontend component (a jQuery plugin), and a backend component for processing and displaying the images. I was hired as a web app developer by the DDMAL lab in McGill's Department of Music Technology in February 2011, and thus became the primary developer of diva.js until I left the lab in August 2012. The project is [on GitHub]( https://github.com/DDMAL/diva.js); you can also find out more about it through [the project website.]( http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/diva) |
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2011--2013: As a volunteer for Computer Taskforce – a student-run group that manages substantial printing and computing resources for science students at McGill – I fixed a lot of print jams and built an external website for the group. The website was built with Jekyll and the Twitter bootstrap and uses a server-side script for checking printer status. As usual, the source is [available on github]( https://www.github.com/dellsystem/ctf-website). |
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2010--present: A free, unofficial wiki-based resource for the courses at McGill University. Founded by McGill students in the fall of 2010, Wikinotes began life as a MediaWiki installation containing student-contributed lecture notes, study guides, and sample test questions. I joined a few months afterwards to help manage the MediaWiki installation, but after a semester of fighting with MediaWiki to make it more usable for our purposes, I gave up and built a [custom platform for Wikinotes using Django]( https://github.com/dellsystem/wikinotes). I've since graduated from McGill, and though I no longer actively develop features or write course content, I manage the hosting and check up on it every now and then to see if everything still works. Creation of new content has unfortunately slowed to a crawl since I and some other contributors left McGill, but I'm told that the existing material is still helpful for students during exam period. [Check it out for yourself]( http://wikinotes.ca) if you like. |
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2007--2014: phpBB is a popular open source bulletin board system written, as you might expect, in PHP. I first joined the core team as a moderator in October 2007, and was added to the website team in July 2011. Although I resigned from both teams in March 2014 due to other commitments and the fact that I no longer manage any phpBB-based websites, I'll forever be grateful to the community that introduced me to worlds of open source and web development. Over the years, I've built [a few phpBB MODifications](/phpbb) as well; I'm not actively developing them anymore, but feel free to [contact me](/about) if you have support queries or want to take over development. |
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