I'm Darren, I'm a Ruby on Rails developer and web guru, I live in Parksville/Qualicum Beach and this is my website

Last year I co-founded a new company called Green Bug Technology Group with a partner for the same area as me. My partner had an idea and I had the skills so we both started chipping away at a web application in our spare time that would give the aviation industry a powerful tool for both sellers and buyers of aircraft and parts. About a month ago we finally released it to the aviation public and have been seeing great results and getting tons of feed back. It’s been a long haul and were pretty proud of what it has become… and what it ‘will’ become. It beats the heck out of all the competition so hopefully, someday soon, it will become my full time job.

It’s a Ruby on Rails subscription based web application, that uses sphinx and thinking-sphinx for full text searching, memcached for caching all that data, some sweet gems like delayed_job and paperclip to delay image uploading and processing to Amazon s3, a full automated credit card subscription billing system and a ton of other goodies.

Bam: http://aircraftsalesandparts.net

Truglaze.com is a website design I recently did for a client. Built with Ruby on Rails, it consists of a full custom CMS with a Flash Application to showcase all his selected photos from a portfolio component.

I just launched my girlfriends hair salon website Floasis Hair Salon. Looks preeetty good so far even in all browsers. It’s a Ruby on Rails site of course. Nothing too crazy, just a simple interface that is easy to find what your looking for. How all sites should be.

I’ve made a cool drop down menu system using Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries that utilizes some of the cool effects to create an animated menu system.

Anyway here is droplicious v.2.1 I won’t be putting up new versions here anymore. It will now be at github (see link below… right below)

Droplicious at github: http://github.com/darrenterhune/droplicious

Please comment any bugs or other questions on this post, or submit issues at github Thanks!

I forgot but I did a Flash header that dynamically loads images from a folder into the Flash application. I also did a cool thing where the Tigh-Na-Mara logo randomly scatters across the swf when you move your mouse over it. It’s kinda cool and fun. There were some dynamic gradient fades between the images but since Carlos (Fellow student and Tigh-na-mara webdesigner) needed the swf for Flash Player version < 8 the fades wouldn’t work because they weren’t supported for that version.