Martin's Portfolio

Martin has been working on many professional and academic projects using different technologies. While he abides by the strict guidelines and instructions, he also frequently looks for ideas to meet clients' needs and high standard.

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Summary:

MSN France Portal: Presidential Election - 2007/01

Functional features: A front-end site for general public and a back-end site for administrators. Windows services for fetching news data from two different sources (Europe1 and AFP).

Technical features: Application and output caches are used to reduce workload on servers, and to support traffic up to 15000+ hits/hour from MSN France portal site.

Technologies: ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005

html icon MSN Présidentielle 2007 (in French only)

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Interactive map - 2006/09

Functional features: Curves are drawn for representing travelling options for a given city, inline popups (or pop-ins) give complementary information on that city.

Technical features: The map is plotted by gathering information from an XML file. To modify the map, simply change geographic coordination data in this XML file.

Technologies: AJAX (Dojo), vectorial graphics (VML, SVG)

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Online travel agency search results - 2006/08

Functional features: It offers rich form-filling experience, including calendar for selecting a date, auto-completion on city names and drag-and-drop for comparing different hotels.

Technical features: Client-side data processing (sorting/price calculation) reduces Web server load. JavaScript code is built by Ant and compressed by HTTP gzip.

Technologies: AJAX (Dojo), XML, PHP

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Strike Up Your Google Maps - 2006/03

Functional features: It allows users to create their own Google maps within a few minutes. Map data are saved in an XML file, changes can be made easily.

Technical features: Maps data are kept in session, so that users can switch to view other websites without losing any data.

Technologies: AJAX, PHP

html icon Strike Up Your Google Maps
html icon Tutorial on how to create your Google Maps

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