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March Madness

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Brent
March 31, 2009 in Work.

Having spent many years working at ESPN.com, and now with Sports Technologies, the NCAA Tournament has always been a high point of the year for me (or at least one of the busiest).

si-kids-bracket-challenge

This year I developed the Hoops Bracket Challenge game for SIKids.com. Much of the game reused elements of the bracket game I produced last year for SI.com, but there were improvements made along the way. I was especially happy with the interface for filling out your bracket which used a css / javascript “sliding window” technique. The game was converted from Oracle to MySQL which was not much of an issue using Ruby on Rails database migrations.

Now if I could only pick games. I didn’t do so well selecting my picks for this year’s tournament.

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About Brent

I have been a Web Developer since the early '90s working on some of the highest traffic sites on the internet such as MSN.com and ESPN.com. Since 2007 I have been using Ruby on Rails while working for Sports Technologies, a small internet company in Connecticut, developing features for FanNation.com and Fantasy Sports applications for Sports Illustrated.

I am interested in all things related to Social Media, User Experience, and creating great Web Applications.

I am a Cycling enthusiast who raced competitively for many years, and still try to get out and ride as much as I can. I created the site BikeRide.com and have developed some other cycling related sites in the past.

I am a husband, and the father of two girls. I grew up in western Washington, but now live in Connecticut.