My projects

I've worked on software for different industries, including telephony, security, retail, and robotics. I've gone from being a UI-only enginner to full stack to UI-only to IoT full stack to full stack to UI-only. I started in a pre-JavaScript framework world when Perl and ColdFusion were some of the rages. While most of my projects are proprietary, here are some projects which aren't.

My photo website

zionorent.com

What began in angularJS, PHP, and MySQL then got migrated to React thanks to a take-home assignment for a job interview. I then migrated to nodeJS when I switched to hosting my own sites on a linode box. This gave me the ability to have command-line access. I figured out all the networking, added a Let's Encrypt certificate, and rebuilt the middle tier in nodeJS. The database is MySQL.

The website is supported by a home-grown admin console. There's little coding I need to do today to add blog posts since I can just upload photos and update text using a UI.

Interactive map of
France, Spain, and Andorra

orent.info/timeline

Totally cool D3 interactive map of France, Spain, Andorra, and Andorra.

The original goal was to show the history of Occitania/Catalonia, a region in southern France and northern Spain. History has put them in different countries, yet for centuries they shared a similar language and similar cultures.

The first step was to build an interactive map.
I imported geographic data from gadm.org.
I got French population data from insee.fr.
I got Spanish population data from ine.es.

WebRTC demo

orent.info/video/videologin.html

Call a friend! Have both of you log in to this site and do free video chat.

IoT

iotdk.intel.com/docs/mraa/v0.6.0/

This is the documentation for mraa, a C/C++ library with bindings to javascript & python to interface with the IO on Galileo, Edison & other platforms. Intel hired my company ICS to build drivers for sensors for their Galileo and Edison boards. They were hoping that offering tons of drivers for popular sensors would help boost their market share. I had a great time soldering and learning a ton about working with hardware and sensors.