I am a Glasgow based web developer. I've been making websites since high school and have recently graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Bsc Honours degree in Computing Science. I now work as an applications developer for Equator, a digital agency based in Glasgow.
This website is a place for me to experiment with new ideas and learn-by-doing order to improve my design skills.
Here's a big list of languages & technologies I have worked with to create a variety of websites and apps. C# * ASP.Net WebForms & MVC * XHTML Strict & HTML5 * CSS * Javascript & jQuery * PHP * Java * SQL Server * MySQL * XML * Wordpress * Umbraco * NopCommerce
Faceted Search Interfaces * Website Performance
My Blog acts as a dumping ground for reminders as to how I solved a particular coding problems. You'll also find posts on projects I'm working on. It's bit bare at the moment.
Aside from the projects I work on at Equator I have also completed a number of freelance projects.
July 2009 * Java, Servlets, Javascript, XML
AcademTech is a Computing Science-specific expert search engine based on the Terrier IR Platform. Persons working at Computing Science departments in Scottish Universities are considered as candidate experts by the system. Profiles of their expertise evidence are then mined from their homepages, publicly available digital libraries (e.g. DBLP) and related information found on the Web through Yahoo! BOSS. The ranking of experts is provided by a variant of the Voting Model expert search approach.
The system is integrated with a novel faceted search interface to allow users to browse and explore the results using a number of categories such as Location or Conference/Journal publications. Each expert in the system has a profile page containing a number of elements including query specific supporting publications, most informative associated terms displayed as a tag cloud, co-authors and web links. Although the system is currently applied in the context of Scottish Computing Science Academia, it can easily be expanded to go beyond its current Scottish scope, cover other academic fields, and people in general.
I was lucky enough to be able to demo AcademTech at SIGIR 2009 in Boston on July 20th.
Live * September 2009 * PHP, Wordpress
GUST required a CMS solution to allow members to regularly post videos and news in a blog type fashion, pushing emphasis onto recent and featured videos. Wordpress was chosen for it's simple to use control panel as well as it's huge range of functions for theme development.
Live * February 2010 * PHP, Javascript
As GUST were selected as hosts for the 2010 NaSTA conference and awards ceremony I landed the position of developer for awards microsite. Phase 1 has recently gone live with phase 2 going up once submissions are closed for videos.