IPSV Module for Joomla
On behalf of altcom in the UK, I implemented a module in a Joomla website for coding content according to the IPSV standard - a standardised keyword hierarchy.
Topologika Access Database
Topologika was a small company offering educational software. They wanted a neat bespoke Microsoft Access database to help them with their Sales, Customers and deliveries. They have thousands of customers - the main screen allows searches by school name, number, postcode and person name. The results can be sorted, and one click shows…
Owen Arts SEO
Artist and illustrator Owen Williams had an established site which looked great to you and me, but not to Google. What could I do to fix it?
Reuters News Source Processing
I worked at Reuters and its subsidiary Factiva for several years, in a team ranging from 7 people up to 18 at the height of pre-Millennium testing. This was how I came to be based in Devon. Our general brief was to write software to process all the various "dialects" of file…
Ray Tracing
For the uninitiated, ray-tracing means quality 3-dimensional graphics. Here, the boundary between work and fun starts to blur a little
PHP Zend Certification
Generally in the software industry, experience speaks louder than letters after your name. (Cue howls of anguish from BCS members). My single software qualification is in PHP.
Hidden Surface Removal
The Camborne School of Mines Geothermal Energy Project had a home-grown 3-dimensional display package, written in Fortran and running on DEC Vax machines. Working for Haydn Scholes, with other maintainers, I added patches including (most strenuously) additions to extend from wireframe into 3D polygon display It looks dated now but was perfect…
Dynamic Adventures PHP Calendar
Paul at www.dynamicadventures.co.uk wanted a web-enabled calendar so that his team could coordinate their events. I found the opensource WebCalendar from k5n, modified and installed it.
Sports Perform UK
The SportsPerform site is a sister to Markland Clinic, run by Kate Markland.