Portfolio

Frintr — Social Graph Mosaics

Frintr is a complete business setup and developed by myself. Mosaics are generated from Facebook/Myspace/Twitter friends that go to form a high resolution image of your own profile picture. A3 posters can be ordered and delivered worldwide.

Built in a dedicated Linux environment, using the Symfony PHP framework. Uses Facebook, Myspace and Twitter APIs for authentication and integration. Automated print fulfillment through Lorien Unique.

Animated #uksnow Twitter Hashtag

This is simply the same concept as Ben Marsh's #uksnow map — therefore plotting all tweets that contain the hashtag "#uksnow" and some gecodable data (like a postcode or placename). Except that my version also animates the tweets over time (starting from December 31st 2009), this allows you to watch the ebb and flow of the snowfall which nicely matches the Met Office cloud-cover and precipitation data for the same periods.

Makes heavy use of jQuery, Google Maps API, Google Geolocation API, MySQL cache. Read my accompanying blog post here.

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Facebook application development for oleole.com

OleOle provide football's largest social media website for whom I project led the development and maintenance of 1200 Facebook applications, one for each of the teams their database supported. I was responsible for everything from Linux server administration, full rsynced backups, server optimisation and MySQL replications to code development (PHP/Facebook API), Git versioning, design (XHTML/CSS/jQuery), page-load profiling and mailshots. I also ported stripped down versions of the applications to the Google Widget framework.

(Applciations no longer maintained)

Wordpress

Wordpress sites are my bread and butter.

Drupal

(Shh, don't tell anyone, but I prefer Drupal to Joomla)

Joomla

Magento

Whilst working for 2BeBrave I was occasionally asked to help theme Magento sites. Magento's built on the Zend framework, so it's a bit more complex to work with than your standard CMS. Oolongteashop.co.uk (pictured) was one site that I themed top to toe.