Hello, my name is Jezen Thomas.

Projects

Drums Notated

Drums Notated is an online store that sells complex transcriptions of world-class drum performances for teachers and students. The system is automated; as soon as a customer places an order, my fee is transferred to me via PayPal, and the product is e-mailed to the customer. Drums Notated is live and profitable.

Technology

The store is based on the Shopify e-commerce system, and I'm using Fetch to handle product delivery. Much of the user interface is rendered with CSS3 goodness.

Launch site

Klevens Udde

While I was working at itiden, we had the opportunity to work with GOSS on the Klevens Udde project for PEAB and Wingårdh Arkitektkontor. My role involved building responsive front-end markup with HTML and CSS, and scripting animations.

Technology

This site is based on the WordPress platform, and the styles are pre-processed with LESS CSS. All custom scripting is written in jQuery.

Launch site

Transas

Transas Group develop navigation systems for the aviation and marine transportation industries. They commissioned Sandberg Trygg to design an iOS app to help market the company's product range. While I was at itiden, I programmed the app for both iPhone and iPad.

Technology

The app was built in Xcode with Objective-C, and runs the same codebase for both iPhone and iPad targets. The compass responds to the device's onboard magnetometer, and uses timers and animation to navigate the user around the app.

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MAQS Questionnaire

One of my first projects at itiden was for MAQS Law Firm. They wanted an iPad web app that could be used as a fun way to test prospective young lawyers' legal aptitude. I created the entire web app from conception to completion. First a design proposal was created, then it was developed into a working application, and finally comprehensive user documentation was delivered to the client. MAQS ended up ordering another four versions!

Technology

This was all hand-coded HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery. The codebase is modular enough to allow quick and easy updates for future releases.

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Most recently, I wrote..

• Scalable CSS Strategy

  Smashing Magazine recently published an article entitled ‘A New Front-End Methodology: BEM’. In the article, some Russians argued that we should give classes to everything. That sounds alright, doesn’t it? Well actually, they even went so far as saying that every HTML element should be given a class that is the element’s type. This sounds like madness to me.

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• Fibonacci in jQuery

  Here is a quick learning exercise I set myself. I know a function that builds a Fibonacci sequence can be written in two lines of code as I’ve seen it elsewhere, but copying from someone else would be cheating and it’s worth more to me if I actually try to figure it out myself.

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• Detect IE with JavaScript

  Sometimes you want to animate things with jQuery, and it looks beautiful in all browsers except Internet Explorer. We all understand graceful degradation or progressive enhancement or whatever-the-crap-the-buzzword-is when we’re talking CSS, but what about Javascript? Here’s how to detect IE with JavaScript. Like a boss.

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