buzz

buzz is a reaction tester game. The game tests your skill in reacting to a change on your screen.
When you click the “Start” button in the game, the computer waits a short, random period of time before the button changes colour.
When the colour changes, you have to click the button again as fast as possible. Then you’re scores based on your performance.
Download buzz using the link above.

uptime

Is your computer as stable as a rock?
Can your PC stay up for longer than anyone else?
Want to see which OS can hold out the longest?

The uptime project lets you compare computer ‘uptime’ with other people. The tiny client software ensures your uptime is always shown with accuracy!

Uptime was created with C, PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

Countr

Countr lets you count stuff. Anything you want, cups of coffee, cigarettes, whatever. Of course,
the count will be saved so you can come back to the page whenever you want. The site also logs
every counter “Bump” and “Reset” so you can track how often the counter is increased.

Calculator for E-Estimator

My work for Reed Construction Data (an extension of the ‘Estimator’ product) allows builders to easily quote prices for house construction and other building construction.

The Estimator program adds together every element of the construction process from roofs and girders to labour.

The calculator extension which I completed along with the functional specification (20 pages) allows for progressive addition or substitution of calculations.

This tool is behind a firewall and only accessible to Reed Construction Data clients.

The calculator was written in PHP, HTML and JavaScript.

PNP: Political News Page

The Political News Page collects a whole bunch of leftist news feeds on one page (updated hourly).
Instead of having to search the net to find the latest news, you only have to look to one source!

Q2 Quotes Database

This is a website containing a large collection (>11,000) of quotations. I created and built the website, and I currently maintain it.
The quotes are stored in a text file, and are served using a set of PHP script I wrote.
The quotes can be served in many different ways; as HTML or XML, or alone, without adornment.

The website itself is served by a PHP script, which takes each page, applies the template I have designed,
and applies changes to the page to ensure that the PHP script is triggered on pages under a link.

Technical details

The website is fully XHTML Strict 1.0 compliant. The decision to use XHTML instead of HTML 4,
was made because XHTML is the current standard for website design. Using XHTML ensures future compatibility;
it also allows PDAs and other devices that only support XHTML to use the website.
I decided to use Strict rather than Transitional to ensure future compatibility,
because it is the leading standard in web design, and I did not need any of the features of Transitional.

The website is also fully CSS 2.1 compliant. Throughout the website, CSS is used to style the textual content,
to apply the gradients, colours and backgrounds. The website uses 4 gradients tastefully to add visual nicety to the design.
The website is, of course, still usable without stylesheets applied. I also chose to use CSS because of it’s similar
look and feel across all modern compliant web browsers,

Partner4Real

I created the mobile phone version of the Partner4Real web site. Partner4Real is a dating site that allows users to send and receive ‘lifelogs’ (blog-like messages) using their mobile phones. The mobile pages were created using Interchange (which I learned on the job), HTML & CSS.

num2text

num2text is an online service that instantly converts numbers to their text equivalents. Example: 40,000 → forty thousand. The service includes PHP source code too, so you can reuse it wherever you want.

Bookings Calendar for Renet Agent Admin

This booking calendar allows holiday accommodation owners to manage the bookings for their properties online. It allows users to add, remove and change bookings for customers for any time in the past or future.

The booking calendar uses PHP, JavaScript, HTML & CSS. This tool is behind a firewall and only accessible to Renet clients.

RSS 2 HTML

RSS 2 HTML allows you to embed RSS ‘feeds’ into your web pages in only a few minutes. Just copy the URL for the RSS feed into my page, then click ‘submit’ and my page will spit out the right HTML to copy into your web page, resulting in feeds on your web page.

You can even style the feeds with CSS.

RSS 2 HTML is implemented in PHP, with the front end implemented in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

A recent search of pages using my rss2html feed script show it embedded in the following sites:
http://needsofthemany.blogono.com/
Needs of the Many is an American political blog.
http://e-selides.gr E-Selides is a Greek education resources web site.

These sites using my feed generator have generated more than 2,500,000 hits to my site since March 2008!

Day Calendar for ReNet Agent Admin

I created a daily booking calendar to add to the ReNet Admin Portal for real estate agents. The calendar allows agents to create, edit and delete appointments in their calendar at any time in the past or future. Each appointment can be associated with a contact or property (this links in with the contact and property management systems in the ReNet Admin). Reminders of upcoming appointments appear at the top of each page of the admin.

The application uses a combination of PHP, JavaScript and AJAX, CSS & HTML.

This tool is behind a firewall and only accessible to ReNet clients. I also added Google Maps to the Property Management section of the agent administration portal so that each property displays on map.

ReNet Mobile Phone Agent Admin

While working for ReNet Pty Ltd I created the mobile phone version of the real estate agent Administration Portal. This was created using PHP, HTML, CSS & JavaScript.