Software I have developed outside of the whacky world of the web
MATH was developed for the UK Environment Agency, through Plan B UK Ltd, to support research into flood forecasting in rivers. It runs elaborate models relating rainfall and river-flow, displaying results interactively, and allowing "what-if" exploration of model parameters. Every river catchment area behaves differently in how it channels rainfall into rivers:…
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…
This database collected telemetry from the very first UK windfarm, in the early 1990's, in North Cornwall. This was very early in the history Access, probably v 1.1. The Cornwall Camborne School of Mines ran a project to help monitor the Delabole wind farm, the first of its kind in the UK.…
The World Aid database originally existed as a DOS system for public use in the foyer of the UK DTI offices at Victoria in London. It allowed visitors to look up development aid projects around the world from a database of over 18,000 records. I converted it to run in the Microsoft…
CITS was developed for the DTI as a Microsoft Access based system designed to manage communications (visits, meetings, mail, phonecalls) between the DTI and external contacts. If a DTI Officer is planning a meeting or visit, he/she can log it on CITS. A list of the other other attendees can be accumulated…
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…
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…
