February 6th, 2012
I love to mess about with side projects, although I have a very bad habit which I think may be common amongst us in that I have so little free time to spend on the projects that it takes me so long to design and develop them, that I usually end up abandoning them at [...]
read moreJanuary 9th, 2012
Getting the CakePHP OAuth Consumer to work in CakePHP 2.0.5
read moreSeptember 2nd, 2011
An exploration into low impact development within a CMS, building lightweight functionality to improve how we use imagery within web pages that can be replaced as and when the platform evolves.
read moreJune 30th, 2011
I’ve quietly been collecting search data on the University of Leeds’ Coursefinder for a while now, and always wanted to pick out some interesting facts and figures, the following is a combination of search and analytics data from the entirety of 2010.
read moreJune 8th, 2011
The video from the presentation I delivered at the CISG and Online Information conferences covering the University of Leeds’ Course Finder, how and why it was developed, and ultimately, what I think we should be doing to make it truly a ‘killer’ service.
read moreJanuary 5th, 2011
You might work on small projects or large scale developments, you might be the only person involved or you might work with many others, regardless of your situation, having a structured development process is essential.
I work for the University of Leeds as a generalist designer/developer, a recent project of mine has been upgrading our institutional [...]