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A Chest With Memories Returned Home

In 2012 a small piece of history was returned to its rightful place. This part of history has its own tale to tell. But first here is a little background information.

A Future Baseball Star Born in Poverty

In South Carolina July 16, 1888 Joe Jackson was born into poverty. Due to the lack of child labor laws then and his poverty stricken family, Joe was hired at age 6 to sweep the lint that accumulated quickly on textile mill floors. He never learned how to read or write.

Jackson continued to work in the mill as he grew up. One of the favorite past times back then were baseball games between mills. Joe started out playing at a young age on his mill’s team.

Joe Jackson Begins His Career

Later Joe was hired at the age of 13 to play on the mill’s adult men’s baseball team for these competitions. While playing one of these games his batting and throwing prowess was discovered. Mr. Jackson emerged as a great baseball player with an amazing, innate talent to play ball. His lifetime batting average of .356 still stands as third best in baseball history.

The Nickname Begins

Once during a mill game, Joe’s shoes were rubbing blisters on his feet. He took the shoes off and played the remainder of the game barefooted; a fan from the other team noticed his unshod feet and yelled, “You shoeless son of a gun.” Shoeless” Joe Jackson became his nickname. Oddly he only played without shoes that one time.

Accusations in the 1919 World Series

After playing for different teams he played for the White Socks and became famous for his skills. While playing with the White Socks in the 1919 World Series he and seven other players were accused of taking bribes to throw the game.

Joe swore his innocence even on his death-bed and in truth played one of his best games that day! Even the newspapers could not believe he was guilty and they originated the expression, “Say it ain’t so, Joe!”

Joe’s Life After the Trial

Shoeless Joe never played his beloved baseball again professionally after the trial but did coach several teams in Georgia. Later he and his wife, Kate, moved back to South Carolina where he opened a liquor store in Downtown Greenville. He later died in December of 1951. Investigations are still in progress to prove his innocence as new information is being uncovered.

Jackson Homeplace
In 2006 the house was moved from Welborn Ave. to 356 Field Street

His Legacy Lives On

Well over half a century after his death many sports fans still love him. Baseball fans, old and young, from all over the world visit the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in Greenville, South Carolina. His fans still leave baseballs and flowers on his grave.

Joe loved and lived baseball. If you saw the movie “Field of Dreams,” you can learn more about Shoeless Joe Jackson. Here is the link to the museum and many more details of his career:  http://www.shoelessjoejackson.org/

Miss Kate, Joe’s Wife and Financial Manager

Now for Miss Kate’s (or Katie, as I knew her) part of the story. Joe married Miss Katie when she was 15 years old and he was 20. They remained married until his death in 1951. Miss Katie ran the finances for Joe’s career.

Joe loved her and respected her sharp handling of numbers and money. Miss Katie was devoted to him as well. They never had any children but  enjoyed neighborhood children’s visits.

Miss Katie and My Grandmother Were Neighbors

Miss Kate and my grandmother, Nina Youngblood

Shoeless Joe and Miss Katie, as I knew her, lived beside my grandmother, Nina Youngblood in Greenville, SC on Welborn Street. Miss Katie was not only a neighbor but a friend of my grandmother’s. Their houses side by side had white picket fences around them. Both ladies loved their flowers and their homes.

Miss Katie knew me as a little girl, between the ages of 1-8 when I would come with my mother and sister to visit grandmother. Back then we rode the bus everywhere because we only had one car and Daddy needed it for work.

Miss Katie Loved Our Visits.

Sometimes we would ride the bus to visit grandmother after I had a doctor appointment for strep throat. When I was about 4 I got a shot of penicillin in one hip and a vitamin shot in the other, which made me limp along pitifully with a hand on each injection site. Miss Katie always spoke of how cute and pitiful I looked walking like that.

Miss Katie’s Cedar Chest

Miss Kate's cedar chest

Upon her death in 1959 Miss Katie gave her cedar chest, very likely her hope chest, to Grandmother Youngblood. When Grandmother died, she left the chest to me because of Miss Katie’s fondness for me. I actually remember her too, as well as being in her kitchen and living room and the beautiful irises and roses she cherished around her yard.

I enjoyed using the chest for many years and loved the beauty of its cedar finish and the wonderful cedar scent it never lost. After several moves it was stored in an outbuilding. Although frequent dry weather marred it’s beauty, I was able to renew some of the wood’s luster and moved it into my bedroom.

Time to Return Home

Several years later I decided it was time to send the chest back to its home. I contacted Miss Arlene Marcley, then the curator of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in Greenville, SC about donating the cedar chest to them. I had enjoyed and kept it for myself long enough. But now the time had come for it to return to where it belonged.

Home at Last

The Jackson home-place on Welborn Street was disassembled in 2006 and relocated to 356 Field Street on a site dedicated to the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in downtown Greenville, South Carolina near a baseball stadium.

The opening of the museum was in 2008 and it is located across from a large baseball stadium. Old furniture, donations, mementos and awards of Joe and Katie fill the house. The kitchen and living room were refurbished with furniture and donations given by friends and made to look like it did when I was a child.

Now the museum has another piece of Miss Katie’s history to go in a room. Arlene and Bill Marcley were really excited to have the cedar chest. They had not known about it until I contacted them.

Donating the chest made me a little sad but a lot happier, knowing the chest is now where it should be: a place to help people remember Shoeless Joe and Miss Katie and to celebrate an amazing athlete from history.

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  1. Oh wow!! How very cool… And I’m sure it was hard to part with the chest, but you seem at peace with it. It was the right thing to do, but not everybody would have done the right thing so kudos to you!

    My dad’s uncle was a professional baseball player in early 20th century so I grew up hearing lots of old timers baseball stories. My dad used to tell the story about, as a young boy, going down to the Pirates clubhouse at Forbes Field with his Uncle Harry and sitting on Honus Wagner’s lap!

    Thanks for sharing your story!

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  2. What a lovely post. I know nothing about baseball (British) so his batting average means nothing, but I love Field of Dreams, having seen it several times, so it was good to learn a little more about him and his wife. I really enjoyed reading this and am so pleased you sere able to enjoy using the chest and returning it to its original home for others to appreciate. ☺👏🏻

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    1. Thank you, Clive. Your words started my morning today! What a beautiful start!! I too have never understood the obsession with sports. Lol, but I understand that athletes work very hard to be become strong players. My energies and interests lie in other directions though. I will be writing several more blogs about this grandmother soon. She grew up working in the mill after starting out on a farm. She was a real country gal. Thanks again!!

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      1. I look forward to more stories, she sounds a real character! Don’t get me wrong, I love sports, but there are some I’ve never really understood! A bit like the game you guys call football, when only 2 in a team of thousands ever put a foot near the ball!

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    1. I isited the house in its new home and was so pleased that I remembered the kitchen and the living room pretty well from 60 or more years ago! LOL! Miss Katie loved children, so I remember her making cookies for us sometimes. So many memories.

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WadSmoosh merges your provided Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Master Levels, No Rest for the Living, Final Doom, and Sigil data into a single IWAD file that can be played in GZDoom, with each game as its own entry in the episode list. This makes it very convenient to play all of classic Doom's official releases, and user created mods (WADs) for both Doom 1 and Doom 2, without relaunching the game with different settings. You should only need to run WadSmoosh once; then you'll have the PK3 file that can be used with GZDoom indefinitely.

It's fine if you don't have all of the Doom games, eg you have Doom 2 but not Final Doom - WadSmoosh will package up everything it can find.

Note for those running from the itch.io app: WadSmoosh is a command-line program; it has no GUI or configuration options. See the readme for details on how to use it.

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Extracted v1.22 over v1.21, but on execute it identifies itself as v1.21.  Didn't produce an identical .pk3, assuming you just forgot to bump the version number in the script.

Whoops, yeah that's my mistake. 1.23 is out with another small fix and its version # should be reported correctly.

Great utility my g! Created an account just to tell you that :) finally I can marathon Doom without having to keep switching WADs and such

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Hey JP,  there's a slight problem with the doom_complete.pk3 file that wadsmoosh 1.16 generates:

Loading the PK3 file causes GZDoom 4.3.3 to throw this error:

"OS: Windows 10 (or higher) (NT 10.0) Build 18363
M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults.
Using program directory for storage
W_Init: Init WADfiles.
 adding E:/gzdoom/gzdoom.pk3, 612 lumps
 adding E:/gzdoom/game_support.pk3, 2523 lumps
 adding ./doom_complete.pk3, 3270 lumps
 adding lights.pk3, 7 lumps
 adding brightmaps.pk3, 499 lumps
 adding E:/gzdoom/doom_complete.pk3, 3270 lumps

Execution could not continue.

Script error, "doom_complete.pk3:cvarinfo.txt" line 1:
cvar 'ws_sky_compat' already exists"

Are you aware of this?

Also, loading the PK3 file with mods such as Guncaster/Guncaster Vindicated; causes the enemies in the game to be invulnerable  to any attack, other than RNG based magic attacks

From the log it looks like you're trying to load the doom_complete.pk3 file twice; one of them is probably being auto-loaded as part of your existing config.

No idea why it would be changing enemy behavior, the WadSmoosh IPK3 doesn't define or touch any object behaviors.

This doesn't appear in a fresh GZDoom config, so that was apparently, a problem on my end.

Sorry about that

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First of all, thank you for this AMAZING utility!

Now, if possible, could you tell me how to make it so the utility does not change the menu background image nor the game's title? I want to merge Doom with Sigil (I don't like that sigil changes menu stuff, I just wanted the selectable episode) and Doom II with NRFTL and Master Levels (wadsmoosh adds automatic pistol start to master levels and I want that).

I can do both but it will still appear as "Classic Complete" on the menu with a different menu background.

I was even wanting to merge both final doom games into one with two episodes but there's not a menu image nor a title to go with it.

So, is it possible? Thanks in advance :v

You are probably best off manually editing the PK3 WadSmoosh generates, by opening it in SLADE and dragging in the specific title screen and menu title graphics you want.

Hello! man i really love Wadsmoosh thanks to it i don't need to load one at time a wad file, well the point of this is not to tell you that you maded an amazing work, i'm here to tell you something, is there any possible way to a add more interfaces, like instead of having 10 DOOM games to choose what about having only 6, instead of four for the DOOM Chapters only one that would say only "The Ultimate DOOM" and you click it and you have the four chapters and with the two Final DOOM games only having something that says "Final DOOM" and you click and you have TNT and Plutonia and in the Master Levels having another menu where you can choose the wads.
I would like to see if you can do so,.

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Is there a way to use HD skies? My sky is always the same. It's from e1m1 all the time, or it goes to doom 2 if I disable the compatibility option. What could I be missing here? I tried using DHTP and vanilla, re-doing all the steps, using all latest versions. GZdoom!

Thanks for this wonderful and such a useful application!

Check out how the sky textures are defined in the IPK3's "textures.doom2" etc. WadSmoosh renames the doom2 sky textures from sky1 to rsky1 (the same as their patch names). If you're comfortable editing a copy of your HD texture pack (I'm not too familiar with those) you should be able to rename them so that the skies are the names WadSmoosh is expecting, and thus have a WadSmoosh-compatible version of your HD pack.

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Might want to add this to the MENUDEF file so the episode list will use BigFont instead of defaulting to SmallFont since the list overflows the default limit:

ListMenu "EpisodeMenu"
    Font "BigFont", "RED"
    Linespacing 16

    StaticPatch 50, 2, "M_EPISOD"
    Position 30, 30

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Thanks for this post! I added to all menudef.txt I could find in the end of the text but it still is not working!

Is there a specific place inside de menudef.txt I should be looking for?

EDIT: I just found it! It should be added to the menudef.txt inside the doom_complete.pk3 file!

Thanks a lot for the info! I'm gonna share it!

Thanks man!!! Works!!

This is a very wonderful tool!
However, I was considering porting over the Freedoom Project's levels over to Doom Complete, and I was wondering what the best way to try and do so is, since I've tried it before and only got a decrease in sanity as a result.

Is it possible to add levels like the mansion and club doom from doom PSX?

If yes how i have to rename the maps?

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I put my Master Levels wad in the source_wads folder, but it's not recognizing it. Is it named incorrectly? If so, what do i name it?

Edit: It is now recognizing it, but it crashes each time i try to use it.

edit2: i forgot to test it after it was "crashing" but it worked, i just didnt know it was working

Hey, doom 64 on steam has the actual wad file, there's just a palette file missing I'm sure someone in the community has come up with already...

Would be cool to have it Wadsmooshed long with the rest!

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Can someone help me? I've done as it said but don't work. the black window close up without any message, i've searched also in Users Appdata etc. like someone said in comments but i can't find the file. I'm running windows 10.

Edit: now it works, i was using master levels maps modified for master levels menu (teeth and teeth 2 separate), it works if you use a normal version.

Excellent tool you've created here. I understand that this is a tool for official works only so I was wondering what your thoughts were on adding Double Impact to the project now that Bethesda/ID have seen fit to deem it an "official" work? It could be a slippery slope if they choose to sell further works.

Hey all
Not sure if this is a problem with GZDoom or wadsmoosh, but when I run the PK3 with the latest version of GZDoom 4.3.3, the episode names in the menu are not showing up with BIGFONT, but a small and white font like in the options menu. Any way I could fix that?

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Might want to add this to the MENUDEF file so the episode list will use BigFont instead of defaulting to SmallFont since the list overflows the default limit:

ListMenu "EpisodeMenu"

   Font "BigFont", "RED"

  Linespacing 16

  StaticPatch 50, 2, "M_EPISOD"
    Position 30, 30

Thanks man!!!!! Works!

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How do you load this up in Zandronum? I get:

Script error, "DOOM_Complete.pk3:menudef.txt" line 1: Unknown keyword 'AddOptionMenu'

Open up the PK3 in any program that can edit ZIP files and delete the file menudef.txt contained therein, that should allow Zandronum to load it.

I created a bug report for Zandronum for this years ago and I guess it's still not fixed: https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=3205

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The .pk3/.log files aren't being placed in the same folder as the .exe file; they are being placed in C:\Users\<windows account>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\<folder name for wadsmoosh files> along with a folder named pk3.

I ran it multiple times and triple checked the root folder with the .exe; the only reason I was even able to find the .pk3 at all was because I ended up performing a search on the entire C: drive for it.

Is there any way to fix this, because it's particularly annoying?

Hmm, I'm not sure what's going on here and could use more info. How exactly are you running WadSmoosh? From the itch app, from the extracted ZIP, or something else?

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I extracted the contents of the .zip file into C:\Program Files (x86)\Wadsmoosh and run the .exe from there.

I'm not 100% sure but I think modern Windows security practice is to not let applications write to any files in c:\Program Files\. It wants to keep a strict separation between programs and the data (settings, documents) they generate. I would suggest extracting and running WadSmoosh from a directory that you have full, non-administrator read/write permissions for. That should allow WadSmoosh to output the PK3 to the same directory.

So I changed the properties of the .exe for the program to run as an administrator, and that has fixed the issue.

Thanks for your replies and the work you put into the program.

I noticed when playing Doom on Bethesdia Launcher recently, they added a new addon titled "Double Impact". I hope there might be an update that also includes that and others featured in their news articles titled "Nods to Mods", from Eviternity to WInter's Fury and more. I hope those episodes could be added to WadSmoosh in the next update, along with Romero's E1M4B and E1M8B Maps as Secret Maps accessible from E1M4 and E1M7/E1M8 respectively. And let's not forget about PSX-Exclusive Maps as Secret Maps. I also hope it will not be Compatible with Brutal Doom, Project Brutality, and all the other Terry-Themed wads made by Verbal Criminals on the web such as the recently reported user named "TiberiumSoul" who was infamous for Tiberium Doom, and Insanity's Requiem MK1 and MK2.

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How can I add Sigil? It doesn not detect it when I put it in the sopurce wads folder

Edit: Nevermind, I found out

How do I go from Doom 1 to Doom 2 maps & ect using console commands? In Doom 2 e1m1 goes to Doom 1 & I've tried to go e6m1 & nothing happens

Doom2 maps have the same names they do in the original IWAD, so try "map map01"

DOOM 1: E[x]M[y] (X: 1-5, Y: 1-9) (9 is the secret level)

[Episodes: Knee-Deep in the Dead, The Shores of Hell, Inferno, Thy Flesh Consumed, SIGIL]

DOOM 2: MAPXX (XX: 01-32) (31/32 are the secret levels)

Master Levels: ML_MAPXX (XX: 01-21) (22 is the secret level)

nerve.WAD: NV_MAP0X (X: 0-9) (9 is the secret level)

The Plutonia Experiment: PL_MAPXX (XX: 01-32) (31/32 are the secret levels, 31 only has the super secret level exit)

TNT Evilution: TN_MAPXX (XX: 01-32) (31/32 are the secret levels)

Very nice for this useful tip! Thanks a lot!!! <3

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Will a future version of WADSmoosh come with a font of its own, for use with the new Authorname functions of GZDoom/LZDoom? Ideally similar to what was present in previous iterations?

Also, is it possible to merge both Hexen and Deathkings of the Dark Citadel into a unified .pk3, sort of a "Hexen Complete" if you will?

UPDATE: Seems someone on Doomworld had the same idea, though his method involves using a hex-editor along with SLADE to get the job done...

Any news on a Version 1.14?

Is there any particular changes or fixes you're looking for in an update?

I saw on your Bitbucket that you did a commit with the message "added the new sigil exit texture" I was just assuming that there is some type of incompatibility with Sigil's 1.21 update. This is my first time playing doom in a couple of years. I am replaying Doom from start then will play Sigil and I was hoping any bugs would be fixed before I get to playing SIGIL.

Ah yes, thanks for reminding me I had some changes that hadn't made it into a release yet. 1.14 is up now.

Glade I was able to help!😀 I am downloading new version now.

Also, will the downloads section of Bitbucket be getting the new version?

Just uploaded it there.

This is an odd question, but do you ever plan on supporting third-party doom engine releases (Heretic, Hexen, Hacx, etc)? It'd be neat to have all of them bundled into one big IWAD

As far as how GZDoom thinks about all its supported titles, everything Doom is all a single "game" and Heretic, Hexen, and Strife are all separate games, and it's not possible to have them all coexist within a single session.

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you!

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I have a request, if that is alright.  I would like Wadsmoosh to detect the state of censorship, and to offer the choice to alter the appropriate wads to the user's preference.

 Below are two ways to decensor (and censor)  the Classic DOOM wads, so that you can analyze them or ask permission for incorporation into Wadsmoosh.

Thanks for hearing me out - and even more so for Wadsmoosh.  It is lovely to play nearly all of Classic DOOM with a single file.  :)

don't bring politics into discussion please, that is his beyond technical limits. there is nothing he can do around that, don't bring unnecessary discussions please.

I don't see why this is beyond JP's ability, considering that there are various changelogs that include the editing of levels for better compatibility or accuracy.  Further, I do not see how my request is political:  I requested the ability for users to decide whether or not there is censorship.  That is inherently apolitical, because people on either side can determine for themselves what is appropriate and tweak the game accordingly.

I don't have any interest in doing this, sorry. If you want an IPK3 with or without the Nazi content etc then provide the appropriate IWAD files and (re)run WadSmoosh.

Fair enough.  :)

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what Does SIGIL_shreds not found mean?

can you add: the lost episodes of doom & back to Saturn episodes 1 to 3 please?

Sigil_shreds.wad is the extra WAD file included with the paid version of Sigil that includes the Buckethead soundtrack. WadSmoosh reporting it not being found isn't an error, it's just telling you which source wads it can and can't find.

Regarding BTS etc, from the ZDoom forum thread:

"Note: With the sole exception of SIGIL, non-official content, even stuff that was sold at retail by random companies like the Lost Episodes, is not supported! People in this thread have customized WadSmoosh to do this but it's outside the scope of what I wrote WadSmoosh to do and I have no intention of supporting it. Also please note that you don't need WadSmoosh to merge non-commercial content! Use a WAD editing tool like SLADE3 instead."

SIGIL received an update yesterday and wadsmoosh no longer recognizes the wad (Sigil_v1_2).  Any plans for future support?

Yes, I've already committed a fix to the code depot and would like to have a build out soon. No ETA yet. The fix is simple enough you can apply it to your existing install with eg Notepad:

Oh, I see you're talking about simply the filename change. Rename SIGIL_v1_2.wad to SIGIL.wad and WS should recognize it.

Haha yeah, but I appreciate the quickfix too.  I wasn't even aware of that issue, so thank you!

is the LZDoom supported for this version?

Yes, LZDoom is supported.

Nice update! Thanks!  (Ver 1.12)

How do i add master levels to doom_complete? i forgot how to do it. do i

Just copy ATTACK.WAD and the other 19 WAD files (Canyon, Blacktwr, Virgil, etc etc) included with the Master Levels into the same subfolder "source_wads" as you have doom.wad, doom2.wad etc, and run WadSmoosh. The window that pops up should show "The Master Levels" in the episode list.

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oh i see, i thought i had to put them in a folder, opps. thanks. also, is there only 20 files for master levels or 21? i saw teeth wad is suppose to be a two part one? or no?

Also, can you make one for wolfenstein 3d and its 3 expansion packs too?

TEETH.WAD contains two maps, so yes it's 21 maps across 20 files.

Wolfenstein 3D is totally different tech and totally different file formats, so that would be a whole other kind of project for someone else who knows about those.

i see thank you for your help:) cool project though, i enjoying it:)

My pk3 has both Master Levels and Sigil as cluster 24, which leads to the Master Levels ending with Sigil's music and endtext.

Darn, good catch. Next version should fix this.

After I run the wadsmoosh.exe I can't seem to find the PK3 it's supposed to create. Should it be in the base folder?

Yes, all the IWADs are in the right place so I don't think that's the issue.

Do you see any errors in your wadsmoosh.log after running?

Look closer. It's in the same folder as wadsmoosh.exe and can hide in plain sight with how much is already in there

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This was happening to me; I had to perform a search on the entire C:\ drive to find where they were being put.

Try looking in C:\Users\<windows account>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86) and you should see the name of whatever folder you created to house the wadsmoosh files

edit: right click the .exe, goto properties, select the compatibility tab, and check "run this program as an administrator". that should allow the program to write to the folder it's in.

This is SO COOL. I was just trying to put together my own SuperWAD that does this, but was failing miserably. Broken textures and whatnot.

Will this add Plutmidi.wad if it's put into the folder? Or do I need to modify and add it myself?

Also a version that turns it into a standard iWAD instead of a PK3 and without ZDoom stuff so that other source ports can support it would be cool. Although that's simple enough to do with SLADE, it would be cool for this to become the equivalent to Doom 64 EX's WADGEN and Complete becomes the defacto Doom iWAD for every source port

You should be able to make a WadSmoosh-compatible version of plutmidi.wad by renaming all the lumps inside to P_TRACK instead of D_TRACK.

What WadSmoosh produces is an IWAD, PK3 just denotes the format used (ZIP instead of the classic WAD format).

Much of what WadSmoosh does, with regard to defining custom episodes, intermission screens, and texture replacements is due to ZDoom functionality that most source ports don't have. If there's a source port that has equivalent features (maybe Eternity?) and someone wanted to make a fork (not a branch) of WadSmoosh that produced an all-in-one IWAD for that, they'd be welcome to - WadSmoosh's code is released under an MIT open source license - but I only use GZDoom so that's all I'm willing to support.

That makes sense. Anyway, the point I was attempting to make stems from wanting (near) universal compatibility with this. No PK3 format, since many source ports can't handle the zip format, or Mapinfo, since that would be the job of the sourceport. But, if that isn't your goal, then that's just the way it is.

However, do you think that future versions could add in device-exclusive official maps? Sush as by extracting the maps from the GBA ROM and PSX ISO? That's st least in-line with the goal of the project.

PSX, GBA, Jaguar etc versions of maps already exist as freely available (painstakingly manually reverse engineered, as I understand it) PWADs, so I'd say just run those as mods.

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Why my episode screen (above) is not like yours with orignal red and big font?

Thank you and congrats for your great job!

Would it be possible to make a wad like this for Crispy Doom?

Unfortunately no, much of what WadSmoosh does is only possible thanks to various ZDoom-only features.

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I’m starting this essay with the background knowledge that it may upset some people. Thats ok though, if it makes one or two think then I have achieved something.

So what to I mean by my title “The Internet is making us lazy” ?

Take a step back, take a sip of your coffee and think about the resource you have in front of you. If the internet did not exist you would not be reading this (I would not have written it), you would have probably found a far better resource of information, something far more useful to spend your time doing, however I digress. What I want you to think about are all the images you have seen on the internet, all the places, all of the inspiration for your work (I am assuming you are a photographer or artist).

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When I first see a photograph that excites me, once the initial “joy” has ebbed away I start asking myself “how was this done?”, “how would I have done this?”. Once I have worked this out I start to question “why was it done this way?” .

Think how different that process is compared to just asking the creator how they did it. What do we learn if we are handed all of the settings on a plate ? Other than at that moment, at that place, with that equipment a person made an image in that way; thats not learning. If this information is taken and used in exactly the same way to create work, these works are not unique creations, they are copies!

Photography is an art, so lets cast our minds back to learning about art at school, college or university. Teachers led the way, examples and inspirations shown and discussed, the way forward was shown but the student had to find the way, make the mistakes and learn.

Some people say no, photography is not an Art, it’s a science! How about science lessons then? The theory was thought, a method for proof was explained and the student would be helped through the experiment to learn for themselves and understand the proof.

Take a look at the 10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by Sister Corita Kent (yep you can find it yourself in the true spirt of research). When it comes to all creativity Rule 4 is the key.

I probably should have written this nearer the beginning of lockdown. I’ll admit whilst I know I should have been documenting these difficult times with a camera, for various reasons I have been studying, learning and creating with pen, paint and ink as well as video (take a look at for a hint of what I have done).

I started my JEX photography blog as a resource to help photographers using Fuji cameras and mobile workflow, it holds a lot of information but I always try to write in a way that guides the way as opposed to detailing every press.

There are a lot of resources out there for us all, (not all of it trustworthy!) If used in the right way it could fuel a generation of great creatives, however at the moment I am worried that its mostly fuelling a lot of copyists….

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With one more week to go of February I can look back on a bit of a “mad month”. Awards season is over and it saw me shooting at the The Critics Circle Awards, the BAFTA’s, the Oscars and this week I am in Berlin for 10 days covering Berlinale – The Berlin International Film Festival.

The Berlin Wall Monument on Sunday 23 February 2020 : iPhone 11 Pro Max

I need to write about the awards and especially The Oscars but today I felt compelled to write a small entry after visiting The Wall so this entry is slightly unusual, having no technical point in addition to having photos shot on the iPhone in addition to those shot on Fuji.

The Berlin Wall Monument on Sunday 23 February 2020 : X-T3 + 27mm/2.8 @F8

This morning, between photocalls, I had a couple of hours spare and as it is not even 15 minutes walk away, I headed over to The Wall. Although I have visited Berlin a number of times over the years on business, I have never managed to make time to visit. To say I found the experience moving is an understatement and I plan to go back later in the week when I have more time.

The Berlin Wall Monument on Sunday 23 February 2020 : X-T3 + 27mm/2.8 @F8

Although I was not directly affected, I remember the “night” the wall came down very clearly. At the time I was a “photography enthusiast” living in Crawley in my first house. Next door lived a single guy who was (shock horror) a press photographer. I must admit, I was probably a nightmare neighbour always asking questions about assignments and kit. I can’t remember his name for the life of me and I sometimes wonder what happened to him and wether we have met since without realising.

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With expectations that thew wall was to come down that day, he was flown to Berlin that day to document the night the wall fell. We chatted a few days later, with him showing me images shot on an ultra-wide “I really got in their faces” he said.

The Berlin Wall Monument on Sunday 23 February 2020 : X-T3 + 27mm/2.8

I remember feeling jealous and how I wanted his job….. I got there in the end ….

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Reminders of the wall are dotted about the city, this segment within 5 minutes walk of the festival hub in PotsdamerPlaz..

The Berlin Wall Segment on Sunday 23 February 2020 : X-T3 + 27mm/2.8

Visiting the wall not only reminded me of that conversation though, it brought back memories of the divided time which I grew up, of east and west. Despite my best intentions always to keep politics and beliefs from my work and this blog, I could not help but worry that maybe as I head into later life and I watch my son forge his future that we are headed back into divided times.

I sincerely hope not.

GFX50S – First Touch for a digital medium format 1st timer.

Next week I have the first of a couple of large interiors architecture shoot. As I was planning the shoot I realised this would be the ideal test bed for the Fujifilm “medium format” GFX50S camera.

Until this week my only experience with medium format is my vintage Rolliflex, so I have never shot with anything other than Full-Frame or APS-C on digital. With this in mind I arranged to hire a GFX with the 23mm and the 32-64mm for a good few days before the shoot. My plan was to carry it with me instead of a little X-T to get the feel of the camera.

The first day I had it I needed to pop up to Gatwick Airport. Shot with the 23mm at F20, ISO800 (Not the ideal settings, I was rushing!!) , this JPG was shot in ACROS. I love the graduations in the greys, which given it is a JPG with it’s limited grey levels is quite an achievement.

I was struggling to find the limits of focusing, reframing and at what speeds I could hand hold the camera. It’s not really that much bigger or heavier than the full frame Nikon’s I used for years but there is a whole different feel (especially where depth of field is concerned) . This is another ISO800 JPG.

(Sorry for mixing colour and monochrome, a big no-no normally).

I’m sure every photographer has a long suffering partner that is asked to pose of “just look up” again and again and again. This RAF was shot hand-held at 1/40th on the 32-64 at 64mm. At 3200ISO and F4, using the Classic Chrome profile in lightroom mobile I love not only the colours and the graduations from light to dark, but also the way the sharpness in the eyes transition to the milky soft out of focus areas.

Its this transition in sharpness that give medium format its “almost 3D” quality.

This final picture was shot this morning, at 1/3000, F9, ISO100. The RAF edited in lightroom mobile has had the Velvia Profile applied and a couple of selective edits. This is only a small version of the image, you will have to take my word on how much detail there is in the wave.

So after a couple of days, what are my initial thoughts?

It’s not as big and as heavy as I thought it would be, its not much worse than say a D800 with a decent lens on it. Of course it is slower than its smaller Fuji cousins but I kind of like that, it reminds me to slow down and this about the shot I’m taking, I cant take 2 or 3 frames at high speed so I have to concentrate on the moment.

I was nicely surprised on how well Lightroom Mobile handled both the JPG and RAF files on my 2018 generation iPad Pro . Sure the previews took a while to build in the photos application import but copying over was fast, as was the ingesting into lightroom and editing.

The only real niggle I have at the moment is a user interface issue. The GFX50S has most of the buttons (in similar places) that the X-T range have. Why then can I not assign the front dial to ISO like on the smaller cameras. I could argue with myself that “well fast use is not what it is designed for, you are probably not going to be following action with the GFX50S up to your eye needing quick adjustments”. This is true, on a tripod or in a studio the top-plate dial is fine but why limit it? It’s only software. Why are these things not more consistent??

I had avoided this camera since its release because I was worried that I would love its image quality, I was right to worry….

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Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail

Like many photographers I must confess to not enjoying the “business” side of being a photographer as much as meeting people, creating images and being creative but the fact its, photography is a business and every transaction or project must be treated that way.

I don’t really write about the business of photography here so if you want to read my latest thoughts on this, head over to my main website and blog: Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail

Time Out

It’s Saturday morning and I am on the train to London. This weekend in the BAFTA’s and I will be covering the nominees party tonight before heading over to the Royal Albert Hall for the main event Sunday.

It was with this in mind that at the end of Wednesday I headed over to Eastbourne and Hastings for 2 days “off the grid” (ok, I’ll be honest I looked at my emails twice because I have an important meeting Monday and I needed to confirm the time. I also answered one phone call yesterday about today’s job). I did not look at any social media, thats no Facebook, no Twitter, no LinkedIn, no blogging and no news. For someone who’s social media is a big part of their work, this is, to be honest, quite difficult but I did manage it. (This morning’s catch up was quite intense though!).

I spent the Thursday exploring Hastings, a town I have only really passed through. My plan was to visit the Jerwood Gallery and the Old Town and then spend some time painting (how I relax – see @artyfartyedwards on instagram). To ensure I did not take a work attitude to the photography, I took an old X-T1 with a 27mm Pancake set to extreme Black and White (thats with a Yellow Filter film simulation and +2 on the lights and shadows).

With Storm Erik in full force, the waves were stunning, I guess the shape and position of Hastings explains why the waves here were more impressive than my home town of Worthing.

The aim of the photography was just to please me. I feel that we professional photographers often get so lost in the business of photography, the commercial aspects of the image, practicing techniques to use professionally that we often forget to take time and shot just to please ourselves.

The fishing boats are a very common subject for photos in the town, its easy to see why, there are pictures every which way you look.

Of course with so much fish around, you can expect gulls and here I did switch to the one other lens I brought with me, the 35/1.4. It’s been around for quite a while but it is a favourite of mine despite being slow to focus.

The storm clouds of course do not only bring “poor weather” they can also be responsible for funnelling the light, particularly at either end of the day.

I think these images show that chasing the latest technology, the latest gizmo is not the best way to get lovely emotional images. Taking time, settling into the location, taking it slow, not worrying about what is going on elsewhere and in fact focusing 100% on whats in front of you is far more important!

I have a confession to make though. I spent a while on the beach photographing the waves. I could see what I was capturing and was loving it, in my head I was visualising how a set of these images could be printed and presented and for the first time ever, I had a yearning to be shooting on the medium format GFX (yes despite all I said above!).

So as I walked back to the car in the afternoon light after a relaxing day looking at paintings and creating photos just because…. this little thought raised it’s head… “you really do need to try the GFX you know” … “nothing to do with business you understand.. just because“..

P.s. The thought did not last long… I spent the next day painting and not worrying about the business of photography.

P.p.s. I will try the GFX once I get a suitable moment… maybe on my next time out off the grid…

Hyde Park in Classic Chrome

Since upgrading to the X-T2’s my X-T1 has become my standard “walk around” or “sanity” camera with the 35/1.4 fitted (as I also sold on my X100).

Most of the time my walk-around’s are set to Monochrome as I still really love the way it cuts straight through to the essence of a scene, letting the light and composition “speak”. I feel you really have to nail these two aspects to make a Black and White image really work but it’s clear from comments that quite a few [fellow press photographers] feel that its an “easy way out” or a way to disguise shortcomings in a colour image. So recently I have switched my walk-around to colour, well I say colour, sort of colour – the Fuji Classic Chrome film simulation. When this film simulation was first added to the cameras a few years back it was really overused but now the Acros simulation has been added and Chrome being a few years old, it’s over use has diminished.

As always my “walk-arounds” are set up to shoot JPG Fine only and I have also set both the Hi-lights and Shadows to +2 for a really contrasty look. Set this way the shadows do really block up a lot but I kind of like the look.

One of the places I shoot often is Hyde Park as I walk through. Today the mixture of clouds and strong light pushed the contrast further. The images were downloaded through ShutterSnitch over WiFi and edited on the iPADPro in Lightroom Mobile where I mainly pushed the curves further, added clarity and a vignette.

The formation of the blue boats in relation to the tower block, along with the dark trees and contrasty sky took my eye here.

Here I pushed the sky a little further with a graduated filter in LR but again I really like the layers and mood of this with the boat contrasting against the cafe which contrasts against the trees and sky.

Diagonals and Contrast. Its like a Monochrome image – but its not!

This tunnel always reminds me of the “Death Wish” series of films with Charles Bronson (filmed in Central Park, NYC).

Running in and out of the shadows.

Having an X-T1 as a walk around is kind of nice – now all of my cameras are basically the same format with mostly the same controls and handling, but being able to change what comes out of them in terms of images is really powerful aspect of the Fuji system. Why not give it a go next time you go for a wander?

Working: Gig Photography

I’m still working on the White Balance post; so much I want to cover in it, I will probably have to split it into two.

To keep the blog rolling though, here is a quick look at my work last night. I was at the Brighton Dome to cover City and Colour with Lucy Rose as the support.

Browsing around the inter-web as we do I come across lots of discussions about “Can’t use this camera for so-and-so”, “thats the wrong lens for that”, quite often with no follow up argument (yes trolls). Quite often the discussions are about using Fujis in low light or in Gig situations.

Last night I started with the 16-55/2.8 & 50-140/2.8 “Red Label” lenses getting the basic shots, for the 3rd song I switched to the 56/1.2 basically because I had not used it in a darkish gig and wanted to see what I could get…

Lucy Rose plays Brighton Dome on 18/02/2016. Picture by Julie Edwards.  X-T1, ISO800, 1/180th @ F1.2, Astia Simulation

Lucy Rose plays Brighton Dome on 18/02/2016. Picture by Julie Edwards.
X-T1, ISO800, 1/180th @ F1.2, Astia Simulation

16-55 / F2.8 : A true workhorse

If you have read earlier posts you will know they are not that long and when it comes to kit its more about “can I achieve what I need to achieve” rather than pixel-peeping sharpness reports. This will be the same…

Image: 16-55 Mounted on X-T1 with battery grip. 18-55 alongside for comparison

16-55 with 18-55 alongside for comparison

The “standard” zoom focal length is the staple of most press photographers work, particularly in the entertainment sphere (with media walls, parties, tight sets and spaces). Since having the Fujis I have been using the 18-55 / F2.2-4 . Its good, in fact as a kit lens its great but to be honest, I HATE variable aperture lenses – most of the time my flashes are on manual and so altering the exposure as I zoom is a real pain, outside this is less of an issue (but I still hate them on principle 😉 ).

Image: 16-55 Mounted on X-T1 with battery grip. 18-55 alongside for comparison

16-55 Mounted on X-T1 with battery grip. 18-55 alongside for comparison

I have had the 16-55/2.8 for 2 weeks and run 2 jobs through it, delivering 800 images to clients and press during that time (that does not include the deleted ones or the ones I don’t like), thats delivered images from this lens (its almost 2000 images counting all lenses). So although I have only had the lens for 2 weeks, I think I have a pretty good feel for it.

Image: 16-55 Mounted on X-T1 with battery grip. 18-55 alongside for comparison

16-55 Mounted on X-T1 with battery grip. 18-55 alongside for comparison

You can see from the images it is far bigger than the 18-55, its (obviously) heavier and feels really solid in the hand. Much like the 50-140/2.8, you feel this is a lens that will last a while, will take a few knocks and keep going (unlike some of the “plasticy” feeling lenses that a number of manufacturers are producing now to reduce costs).

Image: 16-55 Mounted on X-T1 with battery grip. 18-55 alongside for comparison

16-55 Mounted on X-T1 with battery grip. 18-55 alongside for comparison

Mounted on the front of the X-T1, the balance is a little front heavy but add the battery grip and everything feels right again, there is a certain weight in your hands and the the zoom ring feels lovely and fluid, not too lose, not too tight. With this setup, you loose a little of the weight advantage over DSLRs but its still lighter than my old Nikon/24-70 combination.

If you have used other Fuji lenses the performance is as you would expect (to my eyes) tack sharp with the colours & contrast being spot on.

Atmosphere at Festival No.6 on 05/09/2015 at Portmeirion, Gwynedd,

Atmosphere at Festival No.6 on 05/09/2015 at Portmeirion, Gwynedd

I spend a lot of time pointing cameras at light sources (you can’t beat a bit of back lighting) and I am pleased to say, it handles this really well. It does not flare nicely like the 56/1.2 it just produces little “rainbow” flares – this is the worst one I got.

Atmosphere at Festival No.6 on 04/09/2015 at Portmeirion, Gwynedd, North Wales. A musician waits in a food queue at night.

Atmosphere at Festival No.6 on 04/09/2015 at Portmeirion, Gwynedd, North Wales. A musician waits in a food queue at night.

Everything Everything plays at Festival No.6

Everything Everything plays at Festival No.6

So to sum up, I really like this lens, it feels right, it feels like it will last a long time producing the results I need. Basically its a real workhorse.

Not another site or blog on Fuji X-Cameras? Surely the world has enough of them?

Maybe yes, maybe not.

Many of the existing blogs that feature how-to’s of these cameras are by Wedding Photographers or “Street” shooters. I’m neither of these, I’m a press photographer; a genre where we are often led to believe only DSLR’s can do the job, well to be honest, I’m fed up with carrying two (very) heavy SLR’s along with the associated big “glass”. I’m also fed up with paying the  prices dictated by Nikon & Canon for there designated “Pro” cameras.

My main business website contains a blog of my work but I wanted to keep this separate. That site is really for my clients and prospective clients to learn about me, how and why I shoot and what I produce. This is purely a technical blog for photographers and I do not think the 2 can be mixed.

Arcadia at Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm on 27/06/2015 at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury. A couple stand back, arm in arm and watch Arcadia at dusk.

I’ve owned Fuji’s for a few years now, starting with the original X100 (which I still carry around in jpg only, mono mode) but it’s only with the latest firmware (Version 4.0) for the X-T1 that I have decided these cameras are (almost) up to the job and I am going to switch. I say “almost” because there will be problems and issues; The focusing may be sorted but the flash system certainly isn’t and so this blog will detail my findings, musings and settings.

What is without doubt though it the image quality these cameras offer. If that had ever been in doubt there is no way I would have come to the decision I have. Image quality has always and will always be paramount. By designing a new system from the ground up Fuji have managed to get phenomenal image quality out of these smaller bodies, lenses and sensors, something that the other manufacturers have not been able to do, mainly because they were not willing to walk away from their old lens mounts and systems (and existing customers would not let them).

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm on 28/06/2015

I’ll try to keep this a place of serenity but I’m sure there will be times that it is not.

In my next entry I will try to explain why these units produce images comparable to the Full Frame DSLR’s I am leaving behind.


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I'm a seasoned developer with 16.19 years of experience and a keen eye for translating a creative vision into a solution. Most of my career has been spent as a full-stack developer, creating a variety of public and internal web applications in many industries. ReactJS + Redux and .netcore 3.1 is the current stack I am using for my work, but I also have extensive experience with ASP.NET webforms, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, and AngularJS. My Github account contains code samples of some of the design patterns I've put into use.

Application Development Specialist, Level 5

07/2017 - Present

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the U.S. state of New York.

  • In-House applications developer, focused on new development, app maintenance, and application support.

Noteable Projects

Notice of Exam Application

  • Built with .netcore 3.1 and ReactJS with Redux.
  • Internal application listing current and historical public service exams with basic CMS.
  • App was a rebuild of a legacy application from 20 years ago.

  • Proof-of-concept GTFS static and realtime app.
  • Self-started prior to employment and continued as a research project during downtime.
  • Responsive design, intended to be used on mobile clients and digital signage.
  • Realtime countdown clocks for all lines and stations in the system.
  • Initial technologies used: GTFS, GTFS Realtime, AngularJS, Entity Framework, WebAPI and SignalR.
  • Updated to .netcore 3.1 in the last year.
  • Project had a "halo" effect, noted in the train tracking projects below.

Train Tracking Projects

  • Assigned to assist the countdown clock and GTFS teams with various tasks.
  • Created a quality monitoring tool from the trainspotting engine listed above. The tool monitors various feeds at different stages of development for discrepencies.
  • Created a prediction algorithm based on live track PLC circuit data and bluetooth beacons. It combined both data sources to predict which track a train would arrive at a given terminal, since this was not possible to do from a single data source.

ConEdison Performance and Outage Dashboard

  • Worked as the role of "mentor" to a fellow employee learning AngularJS and component architecture.
  • Together we built an application for monitoring the realtime status of power meters throught the New York City Subway System.

Probationary Employee Evaluation Tracking System (PEETS)

  • Worked on the WebUI portion of an evaluation system for new employees.
  • This was likely the last "greenfield" ASP.NET webforms/jQuery project of my career.
  • The project automated a mostly manual recordkeeping process using paper and MS Access.
  • The stack was chosen as many DBAs on our team know the ASP.NET webforms stack, and they would be part of the maintanence team.

Subway Performance Dashboard

  • Lead for three-person development team tasked with implementing a responsive version a subway performance dashboard.
  • AngularJS, expressjs and SQL server were used.
  • A boilerplate of the solution is available on github.

"Improving the Network" Administrative Interface

  • ASP.NET 4.6 Webforms Project
  • Worked with business units, gathered requirements, and implemented an administrative back-end.

Digital Signage and Internet of things

Ongoing labor of love projects, formally harnessed for portfolio purposes.

  • Ongoing off-hours projects for skills development, personal expression, and fulfillment.
  • "Halo" effects include: sharper design skills, advanced railroading knowledge, IoT experience, and my first event-driven application design.

Digital Signage

  • Multi-user system for controlling digital signage clients.
  • Implementation uses the concept of apps that are displayed on full-screen web views.
  • Current Apps:
    • "Commons Art Project" using pictures of the day from the wikimedia commons.
    • "Tap Station" displaying a list of beers, developed for The Iron Tap Station in Portland, OR.
    • A full screen clock with timezones and customizable fonts, colors, and layout.
    • "Trainspotting" displaying realtime train schedules for the New York City Subway.

IoT Thermostat

  • Provides a mobile-first interface to a switch capable of controlling power to most everyday appliances.
  • Implementation includes a temperature and humidity sensor, and can be set to cycle power based on a desired temperature setting.

Train Automation

  • Arguiably the most complex and most difficult project I've worked on.
  • Feature-complete model train automation system, with the ability to fully automate multiple trains on a single layout.
  • Hardware provides speed, direction, and RFID functions to otherwise simple model trains.
  • Programable RFID tags placed on model track mimic train block layouts and signalling.
  • RFID tags can be programmed with speed, direction, and end-of-track information, allowing models to operate independently of the web application.
  • Web application can issue power & speed commands, and can be used to program simple messages to physical RFID tags.
  • Application controls servos that control train switches.
  • Application includes a "train supervisor" module composed of "Automatic Train protection" and "Automatic Train Control" modules.
  • Automatic Train Protection prevents collisions between trains as well as switches.
  • Automatic Train Control includes a "dispatcher," in which the user sets up simple programs with a collection of rules governing train movements.

Senior Programmer Analyst

10/2013 - 07/2017

"ASME promotes the art, science & practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe."

  • In-House ASP.NET developer working on the IT development team.
  • Primary duties were to maintain and update enterprise applications both for internal and external use.
  • New applications typically used a repository pattern back-end with a bootstrapped angularJS client.

Noteable Projects

Conference Papers Widget

  • Widget that can be embedded in any web property to display conference schedules and speakers.
  • Client is built with bootstrap and AngularJS
  • Data is served from WebAPI endpoints and consumed by an angular data service.

Journal Tool Back-End

  • Set up full domain, repository and unit of work project structure.

Fellows Application Rebuild

  • Application allows members to submit nomination packets for a vote by ASME committee members. It includes an administrative interface for staff.
  • Rebuild of a decade-old VB/ASP.NET 1.1 implementation to a modern, standards-compliant MVC4 web application with bootstrap layout.
  • Project spanned several months and was mostly self-monitored, including interactions with business staff and project planning.
  • Back-end uses an edmx-generated repository with business logic layer and intermediate view models for data transfer.
  • Presentation layer uses knockoutjs and jquery for user interface transitions and data-binding.
  • The new system preserved legacy data through migration and normalization.

Data Import Utility Overhaul

  • Revamped internal application for importing data into Personify CRM system.
  • Monolithic classes were analysed and refactored into smaller, more maintanable units.
  • The UI was enhanced with a SignalR message feed that allowed the user to monitor the status of the data import in real time.
  • Domain projects were able to be re-used by other team members to set up automated data imports in contexts that had no UI.

Department Wiki

  • Initiated the creation of the department Wiki.
  • Set up developer documentation for implementing repository and unit of work patterns.
  • Set up boilerplate project for the repository and unit of work patterns as used at ASME.

Senior Web Developer

5/2011 - 10/2013

The Integer Group is one of the world's largest promotional, retail, and shopper marketing agencies, and a key member of Omnicom Group Inc. Integer creates strategic marketing solutions for clients in categories that include retail, beverage, packaged goods, telecommunications, home and shelter, automotive aftermarket, and power sports.

Clients & Projects

Initiated a rebuild of said website in a modern, standards-compliant MVC4 implementation to improve maintainability and expandability.

  • Site launched on 4/20/2013 and saw substantial improvements in speed, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Modified NopCommerce database for the data store, and a slimmed-down, e-commerce-free version of the back end for catalog management.
  • Repository pattern with entity framework for data access.
  • MVC output caching and HttpRuntime caching for increased performance.
  • Integration with Bing maps for store locator functionality.
  • AJAX endpoints double as API for third-party vendors and custom applications.
  • ASP.NET Membership with extended attributes and Gigya social networking integration.
  • Integration with third party vendors for coupon, points, and related marketing programs.
  • Merged slurpee.com into the project, further increasing code re-use and maintainability.
  • Data migration from legacy CMS and implementation.
  • Hosting migration from legacy Windows 2003/SQL 2005 environment.

American Family Insurance Dreamvault
Developer of the dreamvault desktop and API components. The Dreamvault was an online home inventory system allowing users to create or edit a home inventory with their mobile phones or desktop browser. The inventory was then sent electronically to an American Family agent.

  • MVC3 website using entity framework for data access.
  • RESTful API for use by iOS and Android mobile clients.
  • Integration with agent locator service from American Family.
  • PDF report generation of inventory.
  • jQuery UI library for modals and other enhanced UI elements.

Contributions Outside Website Development

  • Deployed and maintained department wiki for documentation needs.
  • Deployed BugNet issue tracking tool for use by the digital department and assisted in the enhancement of digital process with respect to issue tracking and resolution.
  • Initiated modernization of internal infrastructure from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2.
  • Initiated standards meetings and skills upgrade for the department and its members. The department has now migrated to MVC4 from traditional ASP.NET web forms.

Miscellaneous Projects

  • Assisted in the completion of the Freihofer's website.
  • Assisted in the completion of the Stroehmann website, including the intro sequences to some of the pages.

Web Developer

Softlayer Technologies (Acquired by IBM)

10/2010 - 5/2011

Prior to its acquisition by IBM, SoftLayer was the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider in the world with a portfolio of 25,000 leading-edge customers from Web startups to global enterprises.

Primary Responsibilities and Accomplishments

  • Maintained and optimized Softlayer's corporate website as part of a Web Marketing Development team.
  • Substantially sped up the loading of the corporate website using dynamic minification, sprites, and CDN content delivery.
  • Trained and implemented Softlayer's ORM framework to the Web Marketing Development Team.
  • Converted outdated image based navigation to a dynamic text system.
  • Combined content onto Softlayer's website from company merger with The Planet.

Independent Contractor

11/2009 - 10/2010

A time devoted to both bread-making contract work, and my first learning projects.

  • Developed and maintained websites for several clients.
  • Deployed seven contest/sweepstakes sites of varying complexity.
  • Architected new project designs to include database-driven web applications.

Notable Projects

Snapple Real Facts Contest

  • Phase 1 of the contest gathered "Real Fact" submissions from users. The winner would have their real fact printed on Snapple Bottle caps.
  • Phase 2 of the contest allowed people to vote on the 10 finalists.
  • Administrative section allowed an administrator to view or download contest submissions, contest votes, and to select the finalists for voting.

Iron Man 2 Sweepstakes

  • Users entered the contest for a chance to win 2 free tickets to a pre-screening of Iron Man 2.
  • The system automatically chose winners on a weekly basis, emailed the winners, and handled the RSVP process.
  • Administrative section allowed an administrator to view or download contest entries and RSVP data. Administrator could also adjust the number of winning slots based on RSVP percentages.

Cloud-Based Digital Signage System

  • Cloud-based system driving multiple computer screens as digital signs.
  • System controlled an arbitrary number of screens, and displayed any type of content normally found on the web. (HTML, Flash, Silverlight, etc.)
  • Project touched on a variety of technologies, including Windows Forms, RDF, Firefox Plugins, MS SQL 2008, LINQ to SQL and MVC2.

Web developer

LevelTwo Advertising

11/2008 - 11/2009

LEVELTWO was a marketing agency specializing in Advertising, Corporate ID, Direct Marketing, Interactive, Packaging, and Promotions.

  • Sole web developer for the company.
  • Responsible for all aspects of the development process: requirements gathering, project management, implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
  • Worked with multiple vendors for SEO, tracking, and CRM.
  • Managed an offshore team for overflow projects.

  • Deployed over 10 websites in the course of 1 year.
  • All websites contained some "eye candy" in the form of jquery animations and transitions.
  • Most websites contained some administrative back-end to manage minor aspects of front-facing content: seminars, career listings, etc.
  • Deployed approximately 5 promotional/contest sites.
  • Grew substantially in non-technical areas: estimating, requirements gathering, project management, time tracking, and speaking routinely with non-technical people about technical issues.

.NET Engineer

05/2007 - 10/23/08

Interactive digital agency rebranded as MePlusYOU and eventually acquired by Moroch Partners.

  • Dedicated .NET engineer on Pizzahut team.
  • Worked extensively with front end html/css development.
  • Implemented applications with nettiers and codesmith data access layers.
  • Improved UI elements with jQuery.

Major Projects

  • Art Institutes website redesign, summer of '07: Developed front-end with use of MS AJAX and a proprietary database API provided by the client. Developed a dynamic site navigation system using the ASP.NET sitemap controls.
  • Pizzahut Crunchy Cheesy Crust Contest, winter of '08: Developed back end that drove a flash contest. The contest improved pizza sales and captured marketing opt-ins for roughly 20,000 people. Developed reports for client access to contest data and statistics.
  • Samsung Mobile USA, summer '08: Part of a team that developed addons like the email referral system.
  • Pizzahut electronic gift cards, fall '08: Implemented front-end for a three tiered eCommerce application. Improved interactive UI elements with jQuery.

Web Applications Developer

06/2004 - 05/2007

Web development shop, then focused on the real-estate industry, including home-building, construction and finance.

  • Sole Web Applications Developer for an independent development shop.
  • Maintained existing web applications and developed new ones.
  • Engaged in project management, IT duties, and documentation as necessary.

Major Projects

Centex Public Website

  • Custom-built CMS with versioning, approval, and auditing features.

Centex Intranet

  • Similarly-feaured intranet website with CMS.
  • Included integration with LexisNexis.
  • Pre-jQuery animation implementation.

Centex Online Company Store

  • Custom-built, full-featured PCI-compliant eCommrce solution

Systems Administrator/Trial Technician

Bowne Decision Quest

09/2003 - 06/2004

Ongoing Duties

  • Systems administration: responsible for maintaining Windows 2000 Server based intranet; responsible for all hardware/software issues, upgrades, improvements, virus protection, security, etc. Achievements during this time period include a new backup scheme, migration from NT4.0 domain to Active Directory, and VPN deployment.
  • Trial Technician: Responsible for preparation of multimedia presentations to be used in court. Experience with Trial Director Suite 4.0.

Support Specialist

OmniAmerican Credit Union

06/2002 - 06/2003

  • Duties included dealing with trouble tickets within the banking system and running operator checklists.
  • Developed electronic operator checklist in ASP.

BS in Computer and Information Science, March 2002

Areas of Study

  • Data structures: stacks, queues, trees, heaps, and hash tables.
  • Advanced algorithms and programming techniques: divide and conquer approaches, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, graph theoretic algorithms and flow networks. Homework was done in Java on a Solaris environment.
  • Operating system theories: implementations, single-user, multi-user, uniprocess and multiprocess systems.
  • System administration: schooled in the maintenance of multi-user machines. Studied quotas, software installations, services, security, shell scripting, etc.
  • Programming languages: Object-oriented design in Java and C++.
  • General engineering: advanced calculus, physics, and electrical fundamentals.

Resume Date 8/7/2020