PHP
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Whodunit
After the success of my Ready Player One project the library decided that we should do a spiritual successor. I thought about different ideas, but settled on a mystery. Like RPO this would have both a digital and a physical component. I liked the idea of not going to far away from the things that…
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Patron Counter
After the library reopened to the public we were still under a strict max occupancy limit. Library staff needed to know how many patrons were currently in the library, and library management wanted to know how many people were in the building that day. My solution was to create a local web app. The app…
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Library List System
What do you do when the system that you’re using doesn’t work, you make a new one. The library needed a way to create lists and display them on the website, I could have started everything from scratch but, the catalog system already had a way to make lists, there was just no way to…
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Ready Player One project
As part of the Mount Prospect Public Libraries 75th anniversary I created a Ready Player One event. We thought that this would be a good way to introduce our new VR (Oculus Rift) system as well as piggy back off the movie coming out. The first thought was to have an event where we did…
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New York Times API (PHP)
The Mount Prospect Public Library wanted to have the New York Times Bestsellers list on their website. So I decided to create a program that would do that for them. The program works by fetching JSON data from the NYT API, comparing it against the libraries catalog to make sure they own a copy, then…
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Digital Signage
The library wanted to have digital signs but didn’t know how. They were currently running a PowerPoint slide on a computer. It seemed like an easy problem to fix, I started to make a backend database that I could log into and schedule when the different images would show, but the staff didn’t want that,…