Welcome
January 16, 2008
Welcome to AdamBartman.com, home of, you guessed it, Adam Bartman. This is where I will be showing off the latest and greatest of my work. As a second year New Media Interactive Development student at Rochester Institute of technology, that work is likely to include website, design, and programming projects and any combination thereof. I am also a hobbyist/amateur photographer, so I'll be displaying my photography, too. This site will also be the testing grounds for anything new and interesting that I learn.
Skills: HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Web & Print Design, Photography
Programs: BBEdit, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator
I'm Out!
May 28, 2008
It's summer finally, after a fairly grueling final quarter at RIT. In programming for the world wide web, the third project was a continuation of the previous ones, and it uses a database, which the server seems to be having issues with at the moment. If it is resolved, I'll post a link, but that server was having issues all quarter. In clientside programming, our final project was to make a Yahoo Widget. They use an XML based markup language and Javascript. Mine was a remote player for a music library hosted on a web server. Originally, I was going to use an FTP server, but interacting with Unix through Javascript in the widget is fairly clumsy and not well suited for what I needed to do. Instead, I wrote a PHP script that scans the directories and creates a page like this, from which I extracted the song info and displayed it in the widget.
It's been a while...
April 25, 2008
I've been pretty busy with school work. I'm taking three project based courses this quarter: typography, clientside programming and programming for the world wide web.
So far, I've completed two projects in clientside. The first is a page on which the user selects options from drop down menus, and it displays content based on those choices. The second is an interactive page made with SVG and Javascript.
In programming for WWW, I've completed one project (the second is due on Sunday), a poll/quiz made with PHP and XML. You can find that here.
April Fools!
April 1, 2008
Again, if you've been to this site any time recently, you'll notice something is missing. My login is hiding, try to find it. This really isn't a joke though, and I'm keeping it this way. It's a nice little piece of Javascript that's almost entirely pointless, but I like it. This minor restructure has allowed me to include my login dialog on every page.
More Changes
March 20, 2008
If you've visited this site before today, you will certainly notice a few changes. Firstly, there's the new graphical navigation (html and css only). Second, I've changed the login scheme to use php, it's much more powerful. Everything else is back-end stuff that you don't get to see (sorry), it involves manipulating the posts I've made and only shows up if you're logged in as an administrator. Now that I'm over that hurdle, I'll be looking into more ways to integrate administration into my pages. One thing I'm thinking about is making my portfolio dynamic: storing the information about the images in my database and building the portfolio on the fly when the URL is requested, similar to the way I do these posts.
Updates
March 3, 2008
My biography is live, have a look. Also, I added a couple websites to my portfolio. The added sites are my Unix tutorial site, and a redesign of the Center for the Handheld Web. Go take a look at the portfolio for those links.
Resumé
January 27, 2008
Yeah, it's up. Go ahead, click the link, you know you want to. Hopefully I'll be taking some good classes next quarter, so I'll keep it updated.
Update
January 17, 2008
Originally, the front page was a hard-coded welcome spiel. As of some time last night, I finished coding a basic blog using a database and PHP. The welcome message will always appear first, and successive entries will show under it, the most recent one first. If you'll notice the little log in link in the upper right corner, that points to the index page in a protected directory where I have set up a form that posts the entry. Having very minimal prior knowledge of PHP, this was a very interesting learning experience.
