Dave Wilcox – yes, this site
My site began life in 2008 from bespoke PHP. It was reincarnated via Silverstripe. And currently sits comfortably as Wordpress. I don't intend to keep tinkering further.
Triton Flood Forecasting
Triton was developed with Clive Powis of Plan B UK Limited, on behalf of the Welsh region of the UK Environment Agency, to support hour-by-hour tidal flood forecasting. Every few minutes, Triton collects data from a remote MS-Access database, describing the nature of tide, wind and wave for a handful of key…
Web Bookings to VB backend
I built a PHP application allowing customers to book and pay for gym courses. Unusually, (in my experience) this used a database in MsSsql format (not MySql), to accommodate the legacy VB application.
Web Calendar for VB Backend
This client ran old gym software with a MS / VB database. The application was for staff administration and not web enabled. However, to open some of it to the members, we added a small web addition to display the booking/availability of the gym locations. Members could choose their location from the…
Urban Blinds
Urban Blinds is a slickly designed site allowing people easily to order blinds and curtains to suit their exact measurements, with a great range of materials and fittings, at a good price. Plenty of help is available. The site was developed in Silverstripe by some very smart people at Little Giant, and…
Cat Hotel Stoney Creek
Our two cats have had excellent holidays at the Stoney Creek cattery, in a quiet rural setting just north of Auckland. I was happy to make a simple Wordpress site to publicise their business, and convey some useful care advice to cat owners.
Adapting a site to be mobile friendly.
Max Maxwell runs www.singforjoy.org.nz, and had heard the advisory warning from Google, at end of 2014, that mobile-unfriendly sites would gradually descend in its search listings. He asked me if I could protect him against such a woeful fate. I admit to being something of a Luddite when it comes to mobile phones,…
Medipharma E-Commerce Sites
Medipharma sells natural health supplements and wanted a site to present baby oil and lotion, plus another to help dog mobility and general health. Initially I planned to write these mostly with my own PHP plus a small open-source PHP tool for a shopping cart. However, almost by chance, I stumbled across…
Silverstripe for Brian R Richards
In 2011 I started a contract with the great team at Brian R Richards, a branding agency in Newmarket, Auckland. I had never used the Silverstripe PHP CMS when I started, but I was admirably and patiently assisted up the learning curve by an outstanding Silverstripe guru, Damo Mooyman. Brian has a fantastic…