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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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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Lewis Moody Teamtalk App

The Lewis Moody Teamtalk Facebook Application was created to promote the 2010 Investec Internationals. The application allows the user to select up to three friends to appear in an interactive video featuring the England captain, Lewis Moody, talking to the friends the user selected.

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Radox Smoothies Facebook Competition

The Smoothies Competition application was created for Radox, who wanted a name for their new shampoo. I created an application that allowed Facebook users to submit their suggestions with the chance of winning a free trip to the Caribbean.

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2010 Election Campaign Apps

For the 2010 General Election, I developed two applications. The first application was a registration form for the Electoral Commission and the second was a dial test to measure real time sentiment during the live Leaders’ debate.

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Lynx Rise Competition

The Lynx Rise application was created to promote the new Lynx shower gel. Facebook users could enter a contest to win some cool prizes by spotting the difference in a photo of Jessica Jane Clement.

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Nissan Ski Contest

The Nissan Ski Content application was another app created for Nissan’s “Prove It” Facebook Fan Page. The application allowed users to upload their own videos and photos of their skiing holiday in several European destinations.

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GSK MiniQuit

The MiniQuit website and facebook application were created to promote the launch of NiQuitin Minis. The website and application allowed users to purchase the product using PayPal.

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Nissan Winter Challenge

The Nissan Winter Challenge application was created for Nissan’s “Prove It” Facebook Fan Page. The application featured 10 videos created by amateur directors, giving fans of the page a chance to vote for their favourite directors.

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Betfair World Series of Poker Quiz

The Betfair Quiz application is a quiz application related to the World Series of Poker Championship. In the game, the user is presented with a number of questions and five playing cards to choose from. The aim is to get the best poker hand.

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The Economist Fan Page

A set of widgets and a fan page application were created for The Economist Fan Page. RSS was used to bring in real-time content from Economist.com.

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Samsung CYFR

The Samsung CYFR Application was created to promote the new Samsung Genio Touch mobile phone – a budget touch screen mobile phone, available in a selection of colours. The application allowed users to send colourful messages to their friends.

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Tropic Thunder Facebook Game

The Tropic Thunder Facebook Game was created to promote Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder movie for Paramount. The application was developed using Flash and PHP.

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MySpace Comedy UK

The Comedy UK application was built for MySpace UK, in order to promote their Comedy Channel. The application was built entirely in JavaScript, making use of OpenSocial.

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MediaGuardian Applications

The MediaGuardian set of application were built for MediaGuardian’s Facebook Fan Page. It comprised of three RSS readers, a photo application and a search box.

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HSBC Premier iGoogle Gadget

The HSBC Premier iGoogle Gadget was built using Facebook Connect to link to the complete application within Facebook. It was the first implementation of Facebook Connect on iGoogle.

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F400Share Application

The F400Share Application was a cross-platform application on Bebo and Facebook to promote the Samsung F400 mobile phone.

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The Pundit Application

The Pundit was a Facebook Application developed for Vodafone for a competition involving the EUFA Champions League. The winner of the competition would win a trip to Rome to watch the Final.

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Bandwars Application

Bandwars was a Facebook Application developed for Babelgum to celebrate the Babelgum Music Festival. The application allows users to form a band with five members, and challenge other bands like ‘Battle of the Bands’.

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Welcome to My Digital Portfolio

30.07.2009 0

Thanks for visiting. Please take a look at my portfolio to get an idea of that kind of projects I’ve worked on in the past. Most of the Facebook applications I’ve developed are still available on Facebook today. If you want to find out more about me or simply want to leave a comment you can contact me here.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0

01.12.2011 0

It’s been just over a week since I got my first Android 4.0 phone – the Samsung / Google Galaxy Nexus (SGN) – and I’m loving it! The SGN was my replacement for the Google Nexus One (GNO), which I’ve had since it was first released back in 2009. The improvement in the OS have been huge – my GNO was running Android 2.3.6 and some of the new features and changes in the UI have been a big plus on the SGN.

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Using .htaccess Files to hide Query Variables

06.09.2011 0

I came into a recent issue where I wanted to hide ?id=xx from the query string of a URL so I could use a single Facebook Comment Plugin with different data. I fixed the issue by using a few lines of code in a .htaccess file.

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^file-([0-9]+)\.php$ /some_directory/files.php?id=$1 [L]

The code above simply points URLs like file-1.php to a single PHP file, but modifies the query string to make files.php?id=1. This means I can hide the query string and make the Facebook Comment Plugin think each page is unique. Since Facebook doesn’t allow query strings in the plugin, this is a elegant solution to make it work.

Let Facebook Scrape Password Protected Pages for Like Buttons

30.06.2011 0

If you have various password protected pages on your website, but want people to Like your pages (via Facebook), there is a simple trick you can use to allow this. You can detect the Facebook Scraper by its User Agent and serve up an alternative page that contains the OpenGraph markup you would like to use.

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