The Portfolio of Derek Brooks

Java

I've been in and out of Java programming for years. I studied heavily while at Cornell College and wrote a lot of it while at my first full-time job, Pioneer. I don't use it often today, but I've had to dive back in for debugging old projects or for various mobile development.

Here is 1 project that I've worked on tagged Java.

Harper Soundboard

Screenshot of Harper Soundboard
Several years ago, my friend Harper Reed figured out a way to hack into my phone (from a few hundred miles away) and change my voicemail... and at the time of writing this app - I still hadn't changed it. So when Harper asked me to make an Android app for a little contest, I thought, what could be better than a soundboard about hacking phones? So this was my app... it's pretty dumb, but it was a great intro to Android development. Plus, I got to brush up on some Java. I published this app to the Android market as a free app. Within the first week, I had around 250 downloads, about 60% of which uninstalled the application shortly after playing with it, haha. However, I did have an average rating of 4.5 stars... they were all my friends I'm sure.