Projects
The last ~12 years of my work live on GitHub and SOSW. Everything below is an archive — older projects, up to 2014.
Recent work — 2014 to now
My current and recent work isn’t duplicated here. It lives on
GitHub → github.com/ngr and at
SOSW → sosw.app: the open-source sosw framework
for AWS Lambda, developer training, and client work.
Archive — projects up to 2014
Not a portfolio — just a list of old hobby projects. I never set out to be a designer or a developer, and most of these are frozen at their last state.
phpbb.aliyah.co — Hebrew flashcards · ~2010
Flashcards are an effective way to learn vocabulary. When I started learning Hebrew I found nothing that fit, so I built my own — PHP on the phpBB3 template engine and user system. The database holds about 1,000 Hebrew words and ~15,000 other records.
Loituma.ru · 2006
In 2006 a Flash animation set to Loituma’s “Ievan Polkka” went viral across the Russian internet. I registered the right domains and put up a simple page within a week. Through 2006 it drew 50,000–300,000 unique visitors and up to 1 TB/month — almost entirely passive traffic, since I barely maintained it.
IEVA.ru · ~2006
A tool for managing home DVD libraries — share discs with friends, track who borrowed what. The era of DVDs ended before I made it popular; I kept it running a while longer to post my own film reviews.
Cher fan club · 199*
A Russian fan page listing almost all of Cher’s work. Plain HTML with one JS “widget”: a builder for personal CD compilations. Source lost.
”Finance and Credit” sub-faculty, MGIMO · 2000
A brochure site for the sub-faculty (helped friends earn a bonus in first year). Plain HTML with a few Flash bits. Offline; sources kept locally.
”Philosophy and Political Science” sub-faculty, MMA · 2002
Another sub-faculty brochure site, second year. Plain HTML + Flash. Offline; sources kept locally.
TST — MTU-Intel helpdesk portal · 2004
During my first call-centre job I became a trainer, then built an intranet knowledge base of manuals, diagnostics, and semi-automated algorithms for operators. The staff used it for years after I left.
grischenko.ru v1 · 2005
The first version of this site, on Mambo CMS. It ran for years; in early 2014 the CMS collapsed and I moved the content to Wix (and now here).
calls.masterhost.ru — call-centre intranet · 2005
A Mambo knowledge base I extended with many modules. I reckon I wrote about half of all my PHP between 2005 and 2007 here.
Asterisk PBX analyzer · 2006
No good tools existed for analysing Asterisk logs, so I built one: Bash → MySQL → PHP. It grew tools for managing the PBX itself — IVR, callback, registering agents.
More at .masterhost · 2005–2007
A pile of tools: CCTV-screenshot search/playback, automatic agent timetables, a spammer blacklist, agent-activity analyzers.
Another dozen websites · 2005–2008
Freelancing as a sysadmin and “the guy who deploys to hosting” — WordPress, Bitrix, Mambo, Joomla, vBulletin, phpBB. Not my own projects.
Martsevich.ru · 2007
martsevich.ru — a Coppermine + WordPress portfolio for a classmate who’s into photography. Still running.