I'm Nicole Chung, and I live in Toronto. I was born in Canada in 1975 to a large extended family of exasperating Chinese Guyanese people.
I have maine coon that threatens to eat me out of house and home. He was 5lbs when I got him but has ballooned to 20lbs. He has a fondness for Jamaican beef patties.
I am equally skilled in front end and back end development with emphasis on HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (using jQuery) and occasionally ActionScript. I mainly use PHP and MySQL for dynamic projects and my cms of choice is Concrete5. I have successfully implemented a variety of Wordpress sites for a range of clients.
For version control, I use GIT although if I'm pressed I can use SVN.
I also make videos. My work has screened internationally in places such as New York, London and Brazil. Awards include a Special Jury Prize at Immaginaria (Bologna, Italy) as well as Best Canadian Female Short at Inside Out (Toronto, Canada). My first screenplay was short-listed for the Jim Burt Screenwriting Awards.
Below you can view some festival trailers I shot for Inside Out.
Inside Out Trailer 2012 from Nicole Chung on Vimeo.
Inside Out Trailer 2011 from Nicole Chung on Vimeo.
Other videos I have made recently
I have also been published in Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen
I am currently working my way through the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl
There's always more javascript to master these days, and I can always write less messy javascript. Hopefully Backbone will help me with this.
In the past I always strove to write cross-browser, semantic CSS. I used both classes and IDs with a minimum of markup - trying to avoid the dreaded "div-itis". However, after working on a few large-scale sites and responsive sites, my feelings have changed. Now, I try to reserve IDs specifically for javascript use when possible. I'll add in an extra div when it helps me to separate my grid framework from styling and lets me keep my CSS more modular. I'd rather write, DRY, OO CSS that results in smaller stylesheets that are easier to maintain and change. I try to find common elements - such as the media object and navigation - and abstract them out into separate code.
Last year I learned enough Objective-C to work on the console. But in the next year I'd actually like to make a simple app that uses some table views and a navigation controller.