Episode 1: Summer checkup for the cows and calves
July 2010
I'm a computer science undergraduate at the University of Nottingham. Interested in functional programming, the Internet, and making things.
Me around the Internet
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Here you'll find some of the projects I've worked on over the last few years. Some were just for fun, some were for competitions, and some were jobs for clients. Enjoy!
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Video Editing
In my spare time I do quite a lot of video editing. It's mostly simple montages set to music which describe a certain event. However I have also edited several full length movies. I use Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
Down on the Farm
This is a series of short videos about my Dad's farm. The idea was to show the general public what life on a farm is like. Each one is less than 10 minutes and set to music.
Links to playlists:
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Series 1
Episode 2: Emergency fencing after cattle break out
July 2010
Episode 3: An autumn day in the Home field
November 2010
Episode 4: The cows come in for winter
December 2010
Episode 5: Feeding cows and sheep on a winter's day
December 2010
Episode 6: Spring turnout
July 2011
Series 2
Episode 1: Barley Harvest
August 2010
Episode 2: New Pastures
August 2010
Episode 3: A year in the life of the Home field
September 2010
Young Farmers
I'm a member of Princes Risborough Young Farmers so I've made a few videos of our tug of war competitions.
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PRYFC winning the Bucks 2010 Rally tug of war
June 2010
PRYFC girls winning the South East area tug of war
June 2010
PRYFC winning the Bucks 2011 Rally tug of war
June 2011
Wendover Theatre Society
I'm a member of Wendover Theatre Society and have edited films of two of our pantomimes. The full films aren't available online but I made a pretty epic trailer of one of them.
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WTS Calamity Jane - The Movie trailer
July 2010
Other
This is a timelapse of me building a website from scratch. It was really a proof of concept so don't look too closely at the code - it's not pretty!
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Speed web design
November 2010
Web Design
I set up a web design company with a friend from school in 2006. Here are a few of the sites I've built since then, a more comprehensive list can be found on my company website.
Camira Energy
June 2011
I built camiraenergy.co.uk as coursework for a first year module at university and it was entered into a competition with over 70 others to become the official website for Camira Energy, a cutting edge wind turbine company set up by a member of faculty of engineering.
My website won the competition and I went on to extend and improve it. The site is fully editable so that the owner can update it whenever he wants.
Princes Risborough Young Farmers
January 2011
With this site I ventured into the world of social networking. It features a gallery and news system which can be accessed by anyone in the club and posts updates to Facebook.
Compress My Code
May 2011
CompressMyCode.com is a compilation of minifiers for various different web languages.
I built the site because it's useful to have them all in one place, and also because I am in the process of building my own JavaScript compressor for my university dissertation. I intend to host it on this site once it is complete.
Projects
Matchstick hay cart
Spring 2011
I built this between revision sessions for my second year university exams. It was very theraputic. That's my excuse anyway.
It was for a competition at the Young Farmers rally (which it won).
WinterWolf Web Browser
December 2010
In my second year at university I built a web browser for a Graphical User Interfaces module. Unfortunately it had to be written in Java, and even more unfortunately it had to use a JEditorPane as the rendering engine with the consequence that it only supports HTML 3.2.
Given these drawbacks, it's not a very practical application. However, the focus was on the user interface, and I feel I managed to design it well. No prizes for guessing where I got my inspiration.
I have decided to release the source code in case anyone is interested in how to build a simple web browser in Java. I've given it the MIT licence, so feel free to mess around and redistribute - just leave the copyright notice intact.
Here's the zip file with the source code, documentation, and a working version of the browser.
