Hello. I'm Jim Applegate.

I'm a full-stack web developer in Broomfield, Colorado. Currently, I'm focused on building web-based open innovation projects at World That Works.

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A Little About Me

I've been a web developer for 20+ years, and I love the constant challenge of learning new tools, techniques and technologies. I've had the opportunity to grow along with the web, learning a broad range of technologies up and down the stack.

As someone who has dealt with plenty of big monolithic CMSs and their infrastructure needs, I'm especially excited about the JAMStack as an architecture. I hope and expect that these modern tools and techniques will define my career going forward.

Web development is more specialized now, and that's okay. I can do front-end or full-stack development or anything between. It's all about solving problems, and that's what I love to do.

Jim Applegate in Brooomfield, Coloado

Some Things I've Built

Quiptionary

Quiptionary

A full-stack system for the Quiptionary website (defining what we really mean). This project features an API-driven admin (CRUD) and public-facing search website, all built with React, Node and MySQL. The public site is being converted to Gatsby in preparation for future development.

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Portfolio Website

Yes, this very website! As an educational exercise, I decided to rebuild my portfolio website in Gatsby and React. The previous version of this website is built in Jekyll with some React components and is also viewable on Github.

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ReactGatsbySass
Portfolio Website
Blueprint Juices

Blueprint Juices

An e-commerce website hosted on AWS. I configured a secure infrastructure on AWS, and worked with the developers, internal IT folks, fulfillment house, payment gateway, and PCI compliance folks to get it all connected, certified as secure, and up and running.

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Contests Module

A contest module for Coolbrew that allowed brand managers to define landing and entry pages, short and long rules, and error pages. It also implements a Tell A Friend feature and an optional quiz.

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PHPCodeIgniterMySQL
Contests Module
hcgProducts WP Plugin

hcgProducts WP Plugin

One of a number of Wordpress plugins I wrote to help vendors use content provided by the hcgWeb rTags and APIs. In this case, it was the Products API, but there were also ones for the Recipes API, the Store Locator rTag and the Contact Us rTag.

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Coolbrew rTags and APIs

An API module and rTags for Coolbrew that gave greater flexibility for third-party vendors building our websites. rTags were a bit like widgets with predefined functionality and look; the API was more flexible.

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PHPCodeIgniterJSON
Coolbrew rTags and APIs
Recipes Module

Recipes Module

A recipes module for Coolbrew that features stemmed indexing of recipes, keyword search, flexible category creation, and an auto-import for lists of ingredients.

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PHPCodeIgniterMySQL

Spectrum Ingredients

A simple site redesign for a minor B2B brand that wasn't provided much of a budget. I was able to clean up, organize, and update a considerable amount of data in a couple of days.

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CodeIgniterPHPHTMLCSS
Spectrum Ingredients
Gluten Free Choices

Gluten Free Choices

A multi-branded site built from Photoshop design files. It required that I extend the products module of Coolbrew to allow for products from multiple brands to be displayed on the same website.

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CodeIgniterPHPHTMLCSS

WTW Patterns

An early static website generator written in PHP, specifically for writing pattern languages.

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PHPHTMLCSS
WTW Patterns
Celestial Seasonings

Celestial Seasonings

A branded website built from Photoshop design files after the design process exhausted the budget. I used it as an opportunity to develop several modules for Coolbrew including Products, Lists, Pages, and Store Locator.

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hcgWeb Portal

The main administrative website for all Hain Celestial Group websites. It was designed to integrate with the Coolbrew administrative tools as well as make it easy to link to any other web-based tool through a “links” tab.

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PHPCodeIgniter
hcgWeb Portal
CoolBrew Framework

CoolBrew Framework

Coolbrew is an open-source PHP framework based on CodeIgniter that makes it easy to add dynamic content to all your websites. It was designed to replace hcgPublic.

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LAMPCodeIgniterMySQL

hcgPublic

A simple framework that allowed me to manage 40+ websites more efficiently.

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PHPMySQL
hcgPublic

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