Portfolio

Hearts FC Football App

My first app at Wonga.com was the Hearts FC Football App, to promote Hearts FC getting to the final of the Scottish Cup Final against Hibernian FC (Hibs).
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FT Editorial App

I created a second Facebook app for the Financial Times that scrapes a number of RSS feeds to bring in editorial content into Facebook. The app uses XML for flat-file storage and caching to speed up loading.
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LOVEFiLM Android Application

The LOVEFiLM Android Application was my first project as Development Manager, responsible for a team of four.
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FT Landing Page

I created a simple application for the Financial Times Facebook Fan Page, using PHP and a XML flat-file store. The application had a CMS backend to allow an administrator to customise the images, URLs and text for each of the boxes (up to 6 supported).
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The North Face Basecamps App

The North Face Basecamp App was the first application I developed that used Facebook Places as a gaming mechanism.
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Volvo Emissions Equality Petition

The Volvo Emissions Equality Petition application was created to gather support to reduct carbon emissions in the UK. The application was a Fan Page application that sits on the Inside Volvo UK Facebook Fan Page, with the aim of gathering 2,000 signatures.
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Blog

Geolocation Using HTML5, jQuery and Google Maps (Interactive Version)

Following on from the Static Google Maps example with Geolocation, this tutorial looks at creating a Interactive version using the JavaScript Google Maps API.

Facebook API: Tracking Shares using the JavaScript SDK

Tracking Facebook Shares on your website or application is a useful way of seeing how popular your articles are with your readers. In order to tracking Shares, you must used the Facebook JavaScript SDK.

Backing Up MySQL Databases using Amazon S3

Now you know how to back up your files and code to Amazon S3, but what about databases? Use this script to back up your databases to Amazon S3. You can even use it in a cronjob.

Batch Resize Images on Linux Using Mogrify (ImageMagick)

The Linux mogrify command (part of ImageMagick) is a handy way to compress / resize a image, or multiple images easily using the CLI. mogrify can also be used for convert or compress images.

Using Amazon S3 to Backup Your Server

Amazon S3 provides a cheap solution and easy to use solution to back up your Linux server or files on the cloud. The Linux s3cmd script lets you use rsync to backup folders and files easily.

Geolocation Using HTML5, jQuery and Google Maps

Geolocating a user using their browser (if supported) is quite easy using HTML5 and JavaScript / jQuery. In fact, it can be done in under 50 lines of code. Here’s my quick and dirty tutorial on doing just that.

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