Projects

It's a professional software developer's duty to work on various little things outside of work, isn't it?

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2021

April 2021: Back Git Up: A tool for creating backups of Git repositories held in popular hosted Git services like Github and Bitbucket.

2018

October 2018: Threat Detect: A CSP report analysis tool with Tom.

2017

October 2017: Four Pints In: Started a podcast with Tom and Red where we drink beers and talk tech.
September 2017: Forecast: Worked with Red to build a financial forecasting application for FreeAgent users. Aims to be simple to use and understand.
April 2017: Keycash: Worked with Tom and Moe over the course of 12 months to build a system for the mitigation of risk for merchants when using cash on delivery.
Feburary 2017: Tier12.info: Built a (mostly) client-side app that analyses a Destiny player's gear and finds permutations that provide a total of 12 tiers of stats.

2016

October 2016: Instant Answer: Shopify Order Status App: A basic Shopify app that notifies logged in customer about the status of their latest order.
July 2016: Track SSL API and SSL Library: Created a library for easily reading the contents of an SSL certificate and built a publicly available API to look up SSL certificate information over HTTP.
April 2016: Perf Watch: Monitor frontend performance: An early stage tool to monitor speed index and page weight of a site.
March 2016: Quids: Mondo Mac App (added websocket interface for webhooks): Helped Red and Hector by creating a service that translates web hook POSTs into web socket messages that can be pushed straight to the Mac App for notifications.

2015

September 2015: Jira issue expander bot for Slack: Small (but useful) bot for Slack that auto expands a Jira issue reference when it's mentioned in a chat. My first shot at golang and, while I didn't use too many of the language's features, really enjoyed it.
April 2015: Hivemind Research: The product of a number of years worth of development. Internet technology research. We have signatures to identify a large number of web applications and services. Crawling millions of sites and storing those results.

2014

November 2014: xbvids: Easy Xbox One Game Clip Sharing: Sharing clips with friends is a pain-in-the-ass. This is a really easy way to get sharing.
October 2014: Kibako: File Sharing: Dropbox-backed file sharing utility.
September 2014: Track SSL: Expiry Notifications: An app that monitors your SSL certificates for validity. Acquired in 2022.
March 2014: Bath Hacked: Crowdsource Bath Parking iOS App: Built a Rails app for the API and a websocket powered dashboard while working with Red Davis attempting to solve Bath's parking situation.

2013

October 2013: Meanbee_CacheViewer: At Mage::Hack 2013 London (which we sponsored) I built a cache viewer and block html cache analyser with Tom and Tomas over a weekend.
September 2013: Mage Config Sync: A method for storing Magento configuration in version control.
September 2013: MageQA: Building on the foundation of some maturing tools for handling Magento (such as MageCI and magerun), a Phing powered build script for testing Magento extensions.
April 2013: Magento the Right Way: A "best practice" guide to Magento. Anyone is free to fork and contribute!
February 2013: Rugby Referee Signals Quiz: A small project, using the World Rugby videos on the signals that referees use, to test people's signal recognition for Rugby Union games.
November 2012: Mage Faker: Fake Data Generator for Magento: Populate your database with dummy customer data.

2012

November 2012: Testrig: Installation Automation for Magento: A tool that allows for the quick set up of multiple versions of Magento for extension testing.
November 2012: Indebted: The Death of Generosity: Debt tracking between friends.
August 2012: Magento Bundled Documentation: This extesion allows for the bundling of documentation along with an extension, which then appears in the System menu in the configuration menu. Supports documentation from multiple extensions.
August 2012: Modbuild: We all use modman to package our Magento extension, and we all hate writing the XML necessary to build a Magento Connect package. This little tool reads your modman file and builds the package.xml automagically.
August 2012: NASA APOD Automatic Wallpaper Changer: I'm a nerd. I like space. Automatically downloads the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day and sets it as my desktop wallpaper.
May 2012: Timeslip Transfer from Codebase to Freeagent: Yeah, not very interesting. This just makes use of the codebase API, along with a configuration file, to transfer timeslips into Freeagent for billing.
April 2012: Drop22: Aggregated Rugby Feeds: Crawl some popular Rugby news sites, analyse which teams they're about, and preset them to users in customised RSS feeds. Just a news aggregator, really.
March 2012: Foursquare Network Scanner with Auto-checkin: I kept forgetting to checkin to Foursquare when I got into work, so I wrote this to do it for me.
Feb 2012: Nyan Unicorn Race -- based on Fitbit step data: 'nuff said.

2011

May 2011: An XBOX 360 "Achievement Unlocked" Generator: A tool to build those "Achievement Unlocked" images you say around the Internet. Uses the correct font and everything.
April 2011 (Storm Hack Weekend): Watson: A poor attempt at a Twitter data miner -- we had lots of beer, okay?
February 2011: Arthur, a Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot that follows walls.. kinda: A three week, part-time, attempt to build a robot that can follow walls for a University course on AI. We did all right. We put our source code online at Github.
January 2011: Freeagent Stats for Geckoboard: Having experimented with Geckboard for a while I thought it would be cool to tie in our FreeAgent Central stats some how. It's not pretty, but I've put the source code on Github.