When I started working for White Clarke Group I was maintaining their websites which had been built using Expression Engine and hosted on a Linux server on Microsoft Azure. There were a number of problems with the hosting server platform including the lack of reliable integration with Git/BitBucket and scalability. To address these issues I setup new Ubuntu cloud server instances…
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Web App and API for Virgin Media
I was recently hired to work on an interactive show stand for Virgin Media. Virgin’s brief was that they wanted people to signup and do a 5 question quiz on an iPad. The answers to the quiz would then determine what kind of ‘TV animal’ they are in accordance with their recent marketing campaigns. And finally they sit down on…
Medical training application by Brighton Codeigniter developer
KCA is an organisation that delivers innovative drugs, alcohol and mental health services tailored to meet local needs in the South East of England. They decided that they wanted to provide an online training system for health professionals to learn about the impact that being diagnosed with diabetes has on someone. I was hired to develop the online training application…
WordPress custom XML plugin development for Barclays Bank recruitment website
Working for web agency Hodes Digital I developed a custom WordPress plugin for a new recruitment website for Barclays UK Retail Bank which is using WordPress as a CMS. I worked from a formal technical specification document which covered all the backend development requirements in some detail. The principal requirement was to consume XML from an Application Tracking System on an…
Development of WordPress theme and an XML plugin for The Discerning Collection
I recently launched a website for the The Discerning Collection who are a specialist holiday company. This work was done for the agency Designate who provided me with HTML / CSS front end templates and asked me to convert them into a WordPress Theme and then develop a custom plugin to integrate the site with an external holidays’ availability system…
Brighton University – Courses search system rewrite and custom CMS using Codeigniter PHP framework
Brighton University have over 500 courses that they can offer to students and for a few years they have had a website to help with searching the courses database. The problem was that the search system didn’t work very well as it often provided poor search results and the ranking of the website in search engines was low due to…