tom bh

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.

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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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(Applciations no longer maintained)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 sites are my bread and butter.

• Kate Griffiths (featured screenshot) — Translator.
• Elaine's Kitchen — Restaurant.
• Nicholas Bechgaard — Artist.
• Nicola Musgrave — Photographer.
• Morgan Griffiths — Management training courses.
• PJB Electrical — Builders and electricians.
• Synergise Consulting — Construction consultants.
• Steve Onyett — Solution focussed consulting.
• Being Ordinary — Podcasting site.

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

• Performance Live (featured screenshot) — Local hub for events and performers.
• Puppy Linux — It's a shame because I became dissillusioned with the community and was no longer able to maintain the site and my original efforts have been replaced :( (Even the Way Back Machine didn't archive my CSS!) It was one of the biggest projects I've ever undertaken, involving contributors from across the globe and a feature-rich site. I even developed a distributed package management system.

• Impress PR (featured screenshot) — PR agency.
• Connolly and Callaghan — Sustainable housing.
• Flair 4 Recruitment — Recruitment agency.
• Flair 4 Executive — IT and executive recruitment.
• Solan's Fine Art — Artist.

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.