Manuel Aristarán - Web Developer

Popego

Since November 2007

After being a freelancer for quite a long time, I've accepted a fulltime position as a Python developer in the team of Popego.

Popego is a universal widget that feeds from all the web services you love to use. It can easily be embedded on any blog, forum or website.

We believe that we’ve got a powerful solution for a more open and social web that will unite the fragments of everyone's digital selves. All these while hopefully saying goodbye to logins and logouts (and not keeping you trapped inside the walled gardens of a single website).

DESIGN 21: Social Design Network

March to July 2007 - Client: Felissimo through AREA 17

Design 21 is the sixth edition of the Design 21 initiative, launched in 1995 by UNESCO and Felissimo Corporation.

Design 21 is comprised of three main sections:

• Community
• Competitions
• Online store

I was hired and flown to Paris by AREA 17, to
gather and lead a team of three Ruby on Rails developers. Scattered in
3 different countries, the team was able to launch the site in less
than 3 months.

Madame Figaro

August to December 2006 - Client: Le Figaro

Madame Figaro is one of the leading fashion magazines in France. I was part of the team of 4 developers that implemented its new website in a 3 months timeframe using Ruby on Rails.

My main tasks included the development of a system for generating the user interface for the backend, frontend controllers, general optimization and deployment of the application in the server cluster

Project Highlights

• Custom CMS, developed from scratch for this project
• Unobtrusive Javascript and CSS
• HTML standards compliance
• High-performance (2M+ hits in the first 4 days)

CSS Reboot Spring 2006

March 2006 - Client: Webjillion

According to its creator, the CSS Reboot is a community project put on by WebJillion that tries to bring web professionals from all over the world together to simultaneously launch redesigns of their sites and blogs

The CSS Reboot site was rebuilt from scratch for the Spring 2006 edition, this time using Ruby on Rails.

Project Highlights

• Tagging and comments for reboots.
• Integration with a WordPress blog (ActiveRecord models for accessing the blog data)
• Full site search
• Fully automated purchasing process of advertisements on the site

The CSS Reboot is no longer owned by Webjillion

Ariel Publicity CyberPromo

February 2006 / April 2006 - Client: Ariel Publicity

CyberPromo is an automated artist promotions tool that sends artist's information (in the form of a electronic press kit), links artist's sites, and one MP3, to online Resources for musician's including Internet Radio stations, online music magazines, bloggers, podcasters and directories.

CyberPromo matches bands to a database of over 10,000 resources based on different criteria including genres, region and tour dates.

TracksLife

October 2005 - Client: WebJillion

TracksLife was conceived to help people keep track of anything that can be represented with a spreadsheet/database that combine columns of money, numbers, paragraphs and boolean values.

Implemented with Ruby on Rails and MySQL. I wrote the server side code and the Javascript for AJAX functionality

Project Highlights

• Data export to Excel, XML, and CSV.
• Unobtrusive javascript and graceful degradation for javascript disabled browsers
• More than 1000 registered users since Oct 1st, 2005
• Featured on LifeHacker, among others.

TracksLife is no longer owned by Webjillion