I’m Marcus Ulrich, a programmer and journalist with over 6 years experience building web applications in Python and JavaScript that can withstand the unpredictable crowds of a news website.

I’m currently living in the Basque Country working part time as a language teacher and the rest of the time on various web programming projects, blogging, perfecting my Spanish, and learning Euskara (Basque), French, and Objective C.

Some things I’ve built

• A javascript library for clustering and managing markers with Google Maps API. See how it compares to other clustering libraries.
• A parser to make real-time election day HTML pages with charts for each contest.
• Heavily modified the Nivo Slider JQuery Plugin to include sprite-based photo previews and configurable pre-loading of photos.
• (Deprecated) A resizeable, draggable container written with the now deprecated Google Maps API V2 and Google’s My Maps and a configuration tool for the script.
• Configured the OC Register Google maps to work with the crime, restaurant, and traffic JSON feeds that powered the OCRegister.com Traffic Page and the community pages.
• A statistics page so reporters and editors could see how people used the maps they created.

Some things I’ve written

• Climbing Mt. Whitney in winter
• 100 cups of coffee
• Climbing Mt. San Gorgonio.
• Climbing Cathedral Peak.

Countries I’ve Visited

Contact

ulrich at mallocs.net