Portfolio of Peter Epp

Bush League DJs

Bush League is 3 DJs consisting of my brother and 2 of his friends. Their website provides information about the music they mix, their news and events and provides a podcast download.

It runs on the first version of a Rapid Application Development framework called Biscuit that I built in PHP (see last item for info). This provides them with content management features for their news and events, music charts and podcast pages. It also features public commenting on each podcast allowing fans to give them feedback.

This site represents one of my best pieces of work, taking full advantage of Web 2.0 features available in modern browsers.

Web Link: bushleaguedjs.ca

Go Safe: The Safety Game

This is an interactive game developed in Flash for promoting work-place safety as part of the Worker's Safety and Compensation Commission of the NWT and Nunavut's Go Safe program. A custom engine was built to suit the client's specific needs.

The game also includes an informational website for those not interested in playing through the game. The game was targeted at children and users lacking in computer and/or gaming experience.

The game won first-prize winner in the Audio Visual category of the AASCIF awards (American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds).

Web Link: gosafe.kellett.nt.ca (demo)
Reference: Amy Doerksen, (867) 669-4443

Nunavut Planning Commission

This website represents one of the best projects I've had the pleasure of being a part of at Kellett Communications. Running on Drupal 5, the key feature of this website is it's interactive map. This feature was a first for me as well as Kellett and was an interesting and challenging learning curve. Utilizing OpenLayers, an open source mapping canvas, combined with a 3rd party hosted MapServer, it provides a means for users to browse the many different layers of data the Nunavut Planning Commission has to provide.

Web Link: nunavut.ca

NWT Soccer Association

This website consists largely of static content, but also provides a member registration and management system as well as a full content management with a rich text editor. It was built on the Biscuit Framework version 1.0.

The newest feature addition to this website was online payment through PayPal Web Payments Pro, allowing seamless integration with the existing registration system. This site was the first in which I incorporated an online payment system. It proved an interesting challenge that I met with great success.

Web Link: nwtkicks.ca

YK Outdoor Soccer League

This is an older site that I built for a friend as a freelance project. It runs on an older code base using old-style table layouts, but sports a complete league management system including player registration, game scheduling, team management, league stats and more.

The newest feature additions include integration with the NWT Soccer Association website to verify membership status as well as incorporation of divisions that teams and games can be assigned to.

Web Link: yksoccer.ca

Northwestel

One of the largest website I've worked on, it encompasses all of Northwestel's products and services. I was involved in development from it's original state of being mostly static with some JSP/Oracle-driven dynamic content to it's current state running on the Hot Banana CMS platform from Lyris. My part largely involved static coding and Web 2.0 Javascript programming to provide it's interactive features. It also involved some JSP/Oracle work to incorporate it's original database-driven content during the first phase of re-development.

I was also involved in the process of migrating the site to it's current platform, ensuring that all of it's features were successfully retained without loss of quality or usability.

Web Link: nwtel.ca

Latitude Wireless

Latitude Wireless is Northwestel's mobile phone division. The site is designed to be clean, simple and promote Northwestel's wireless products. It features some simple yet elegant web 2.0 elements, a database-driven back-end for the phone information pages and a simple Rails CMS use internally by me and the team at Kellett Communications for ease of updating product information.

Web Link: latitudewireless.ca

Weaver & Devore Trading Ltd.

This was my first online store and the site that gave me my initial education in web development. Starting from a rather rudimentary custom store without any real back-end management, it was later rebuilt on osCommerce and redesigned with the professional look and feel you currently see.

The store has been very successful, bringing in a large amount of mail order business for Canada Goose parkas, among other things.

Web Link: weaverdevore.ca

Northbest Distributors

This site provides online wholesale food ordering and was designed primarily to facilitate ordering from remote northern camps where satellite phone and fax communications are often garbled making the ordering process difficult and sometimes lengthy.

It not only provides customers with useful facilities to keep track of shopping lists for regular orders, but provides the client with complete management of orders and customers, as well as their online catalogue.

Web Link: northbest.ca

Yellowknife Choral Society

This site provides fans of choral music in the North with information about the Choral Society and their upcoming events. It includes content management features and allows users to subscribe for updates on news and events.

Web Link: ykchoralsociety.org

Biscuit Framework

Biscuit is a Rapid Application Development framework for PHP that I developed in my spare time with some ideas/contributions from Kellett Communications. It is a unique framework that strives to encompass the best open source ideas in one tidy package. I developed it out of a desire to learn and improve my PHP skills and to provide me with a framework that works the way I want.

Biscuit is built on MVC programming standards and is designed to allow the developer to focus all their time on deliverables without having to be concerned with the underlying nuts and bolts of the application. If you'd like to know more about it, please contact me.

This website runs on Biscuit version 2.0. Biscuit is not presently available to the general public.