Blog and 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 a podcast download.

It runs on a crude, early version of the Biscuit framework 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.

The site uses Web 2.0 features for navigation.

Web Link: bushleaguedjs.ca

Medic North

Medic North provides medical support solutions to remote industrial operations throughout Canada. The website provides information about their services, employment opportunities and news.

The site is built on the Biscuit 2.0 framework providing the client with full content management capabilities, site search and an RSS feed.

Web Link: medicnorth.com

Advanced Medic

Advanced Medic is a rebrand of Medic North designed to better appeal to the southern Canadian market.

The site is built on the Biscuit 2.0 framework providing the client with full content management capabilities, site search and an RSS feed.

Web Link: advancedmedic.com

Home Bills

Home Bills is a web application built on the Biscuit 2.0 framework for managing bills shared with roommates. It is currently only setup for my personal use, but I have plans to open it up for public registration and use.

Users can record the payments they have made on bills, which are then split equally between all members of the household. It provides a summary by month showing all bills paid by each member and the shares each member owes. It provides balance totals, a reconciliation summary to show how much each user owes to each other as well as a summary of the average shares of each bill over the total time it has recorded payments. It also allows recording of reconciliation payments to keep track of when users have settled up with each other and deduct that from the balances owing.

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

Yellowknife Choral Society

This site provides fans of choral music in the North with information about the Choral Society and their upcoming events. It runs on ExpressionEngine 1.6, providing them with full content management features and a Flickr-driven photo gallery.

Graphic design by Devin Boyd

Web Link: ykchoralsociety.org

Not Us Anti-Drug Campaign

The Not Us campaign is an initiative implemented by the GNWT Department of Justice to encourage people in the northern communities to rise up against drugs as it is a serious probem in many of the Northern Communities.

The main site, running on Drupal, features a modern, edgy design that was a challenge to code up on the Drupal theming system. The highlight, however, is the custom poster maker accessible from the right sidebar. This is external to the Drupal framework, running on custom programming using components taken from my Biscuit framework (see last item for details). Similar to the Obacion Me website, it allows a user to upload their own photo, provide custom text and produce their own custom campaign posters they can use to promote the anti-drug initiative in their community.

Main Site: not-us.ca • Poster Customizer: customizer.not-us.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.

This site has recently been updated to share a single login session with the NWT Soccer Association website for improved integration of users and their information.

Web Link: yksoccer.ca

33 Strong

33 Strong is an informational site promoting a series of programs designed to enhance public service capacity for local governments developed by a partnership of Northern government organizations.

Built on the Biscuit 2.0 framework, it provides the client with full content management capabilities, site search and RSS feed.

Web Link: 33strong.ca

I Care NWT - Recycling Website

I Care is an initiative implemented by the GNWT Department of Environment and Natural Resources to promote recycling in the NWT. It primarily provides up-to-date information about recycling depots and programs in the various northern communities. It also provides recycling depots with a login to access information and training materials.

Running on my Biscuit framework (see last item for details), it features a full content management system for editing page content using a rich text editor, with full page hierarchy management as well as a rotating ad manager module. An additional feature is an Ajaxy search drop-down as you type providing links to the top 5 hits.

Web Link: icarenwt.ca

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 Land and Water Boards

The Land and Water boards of the NWT wanted new websites all running on a platform that allowed them to:

• Login to one content management system to publish content to all four sites
• Publish some content to all sites while keeping other content separate to each respective site
• Give each site it's own unique design

This was accomplished using Wordpress' multisite feature.

Web Links: MVLWB, WLWB, SLWB, GLWB

Nunavut Development Corporation

A fairly simple Wordpress site with some nice visual and interactive elements to help brighten up an otherwise very basic informational website.

Web Link: ndcorp.nu.ca

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 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. It provides a great deal of power and flexibility and can allow the development of anything from a basic CMS-driven website to a complete custom web application. If you'd like to know more about it, please contact me.

Biscuit is fully open source under the GNU Lesser General Public license. It does not currently have a support site with download links, but a copy can be obtained by contacting me.