Working with Mere Mortals, I was tasked with building the new Alex Rider Gadget Academy website.

Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider series has ‘had 12 million sales worldwide‘, with the Stormbreaker book being adapted into a blockbuster movie: the next release in the series needed an online competition, which allowed entrants to invent and submit their gadget idea for a chance of it being featured in the next book.

With the website being featured (in print and online) in The Times on the day of the website launch, it was imperative that all went smoothly.

This was the highest profile website I’ve developed to date, so I was delighted to receive the following after the project was completed:

Working again with Kino Creative, I constructed a secure Wordpress Inbox plugin for communication between patients and NHS staff, as well as building a jQuery-powered ‘Self-Assessment’ module that allowed patients to complete a series of questions and receive automatic feedback as to whether should seek further help.

Working closely with Kino Creative, I wrote a large number of Wordpress plugins in order to turn Wordpress from a blogging platform into an advanced, paywalled (using Google Checkout) magazine archive.
This involved a great deal of work programmatically transforming the (often corrupt) data in order to import it into the new system.

PR-Imaging is an established professional photography e-commerce website which I am in the process of refining and upgrading to ensure it continues to be cutting-edge.

I wrote an Events handling module for the WolfCMS-driven backend of AV Festival 2010, as a part of a much larger project

I developed a couple of plugins for WolfCMS on behalf of Band-X, namely: an API plugin which allowed arbitrary tables in the database to be published on a per-column basis; an Events handling module for use in the AV Festival backend; and a website traffic analytic plugin.

On behalf of Oi-Digital, I was tasked with writing a bespoke (and very involved) postage calculator for the Guernsey Post Office. This was challenging as over a period of a year it underwent a large amount of upgrades and extensions: a rock-solid initial design and codebase was crucial in order to cope with this rapid expansion.

Update: I was invited back in 2010 to add further extensions.

I was asked to do a  chunk of maintenance work on the Band-x servers: this included installing and configuring a web-facing SVN repository, setting up a LAMP stack from scratch, and optimising the firewall, etc.