Melbourne University Publishing

www.mup.com.au

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is Australia’s oldest University press, and they needed a new website to showcase their range of titles, to handle public and wholesale orders and improve their editorial direction.

I was one of three core developers on this project, taking responsibility for integrating with numerous third party APIs and services. In particular I was responsible for designing the database schema, implementing daily processing of product data and titles supplied by Penguin Random House, and building the entire checkout process including a custom built promotions and discounts system. I also built many of the editorial features and admin back-end for the application. It was a challenging but rewarding project.

Toolbox

MUP’s new website was one of the first large-scale, complex dry-rb and rom-rb apps running in production. The dry-rb and rom-rb ecosystem is a collection of gems that provides a platform for building maintainable Ruby web applications.