the personal portfolio of Joshua Gross
Hey, welcome, how are you? Good? Glad to hear it. You’ve found the online portfolio of Joshua Gross, so why don’t you have a look around? I think you’ll be pleased with what you see.
But who am I, exactly?
I’m a freelance programmer and designer with a passion for developing new ideas. Lots of ’em.
(And I’m for hire, if you’re curious.)
ajax instant messenger (ajax im)
A completely browser-based chat client that includes one-on-one, and multi-user messaging, as well as a buddylist. Created from the ground up, this was one of the first entirely AJAX messenger clients ever built.
Snapherd
A unique photo (camera phone and digtial camera) game based around catchwords.
moowheel
MooWheel allows a user to display connections between concepts in a flowing, circular format. A unique and elegant way to visualize data using Javascript and the <canvas> element.
moocirclepack
Circle packing for Javascript. A great visualization that allows a user to represent data in a structured-but-amorphous format.
mp3 streamer
Simple MP3 streamer using AJAX for the display, PHP for the backend, and Flash for audio playback; this was built for a client. Streamer doesn't use images (at client's request), so all buttons are generated on the fly using <canvas> elements.
tapefailure
Unique analytics service that recorded user's sessions as they browsed a website. Site owner could playback recordings, as well as view various aggregated statistics based upon the recorded data. Now defunct, replaced by VisTrac.
tagboard
One of my earlier projects. Allows users to post text on a board at any angle, in various fonts and colors.
letterboard
Akin to the magnetic letters often found on fridge doors.
the personal thoughts of Joshua Gross
February 10th, 2009
This article follows a similar train of thought as my last post, Qualifying “Web Karma”: It shouldn’t be a game. I’ve always had a fascination with communities and I’ve noticed, as perhaps many others have, that communities often gain momentum over time to a point where they are expanding at an almost unholy rate. You can clearly see this kind of growth in Digg, Reddit, and even (to a limited extent, currently) Hacker News, if you’ve watched them over time.
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February 5th, 2009
karma, n. the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person’s deeds in the previous incarnation.1
Though not always called “karma” (Everything2 has a multi-faceted system involving “reps” and “C!s,” and Slashdot calls it a “score”), the concepts all serve the same purpose: karma has come to be a way of quantifying the contributions of a person to a particular website.
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