MySpace Portfolio

MySpace.com has many international versions of their site. Through website usage statistics, it was noticed that many of our United Kingdom and Ireland users were viewing the USA version of the site. I created a web page that notifies these users that there is a localized version of MySpace.com for them. The page needed to be viewed after a UK or IE user logs into the site. Due to this, I was responsible for adding the business logic of the interstitial to the ColdFusion login process of MySpace.com. Since the user-base of our IE and UK users is in the millions, the page was written in HTML and uses JavaScript. A SQL component was created that tracked how many times the interstitial was viewed. Within just a couple of days, a majority of the MySpace.com UK and IE users switched their preferred culture so they can view their countries respective MySpace.com site.

The Resource Manager is an intranet application that allows developers and product managers to manage RESX files that are used to localize MySpace.com. My role was to develop the compare functionality. This included creating algorithms that compared RESX files so users of the application will know which cultures had missing and extra keys. The Resource Manager was developed with Visual Studio .NET 2005 and is written in C# 2.0. ASP.NET 2.0 masterpages were used to maintain a consistent look-and-feel while JavaScript was used to create context menu functionality.

Created the address book importer module for MySpace.com that allows users to invite and add their contacts found in their Yahoo!, Hotmail, GMail or AOL email account(s) to MySpace. The user enters their login credentials and a request is made (on behalf of the user) behind-the-scenes that authenticates the user and parses their contacts. Based on a contact's email address, the module queries MySpace's vast user database and determines whether their contact is already a friend of the user or not. If the contact is not found, then the user can invite their contact to join MySpace. This module was developed using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 and written in C# 2.0. HTTP requests are performed using the Microsoft.Net system library and HTML parsing is accomplished by using the open-source package, HTML Agility Pack. The modules front-end utilizes ASP.NET 2.0 masterpages.

Created the culture-to-country mappings for MySpace.com that allows site-wide configurations via a XML file. This was written in C# 2.0 and utilizes XML deserialization techniques to expose the configuration settings in an Object-Oriented manner. A rich API was written with the use of provider classes so other developers may configure their applications for the international versions of MySpace.com.

Developed an API for MySpace Groups to be used by Japanese developers. This involved creating stored procedures in SQL Server 2005, data access objects that queried the database, provider classes that exposed the methods to retrieve the data and domain objects to define the data. In addition, UML class diagrams were created with Visual Studio 2005 to depict the API usage.