Syntacticx
About
Syntacticx is Ryan Johnson, entrepreneur, designer, UI programmer and web application engineer. 15 years of web development experience. Thrives on hard to solve problems, bleeding edge technology, and potential to create unique IP.
Available for hire. Seattle area or remote only.
Projects
ActiveJS
Cross browser, cross platform JavaScript MVC framework featuring an ActiveRecord implementation that can run with or without a SQL backend and a data binding library that regular developers can understand. This is an early stage project but is seeing significant interest from the server side JavaScript community and mobile application developers.
PersonalGrid
Rails/S3 based file sharing service that allows users to publish single files or whole folders with a single click using a desktop-like user interface. An interview with Ryan is available on the Prototype website that discusses the design decisions and challenges of implementing encountered while this product.
LivePipe UI
High quality widgets and controls for web 2.0 applications built using the Prototype JavaScript Framework. Each control is well tested, highly extensible, fully documented and degrades gracefully for non JavaScript enabled browsers where possible. MIT licensed and used on hundreds of websites.
LivePipe CMS
PHP CMS with pending patents developed from 2005 - 2007. The IP behind this system was acquired but never released, no live demos are available. Two screencasts are available: content editing and website administration demo and developer features.