Author Archives: Paul

Grails and Groovy – Post Project Review

Having spent the last eight months working almost exclusively in Grails I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it, it’s fantastic. A non-disclosure agreement I signed with the customer prevents me from giving detailed features of the project but here are some of my experiences and findings. I recommended Grails as a development platform for the project [...]

Configuring Grails Fixtures for Functional Testing

Having used fixtures to configure test data within in other frameworks I thought I’d use the Grails Fixtures plugin for my latest Grails project. It may have simply been a bad-day-at-the-office but for whatever reason, this took me much longer than it probably should have! Having finally managed to piece everything together using the documentation [...]

Iteration Complete: Custom Intranet CMS

This administration system was developed on behalf of Kiss Online Marketing for a client providing non-destructive testing services. The system will form part of the client’s intranet. The application was built using the Yii PHP framework, EXT JS, JQuery and AJAX. Using the Yii framework allowed an agile approach to be taken for software development. [...]

Launch: Pulham St Mary Parish Council Website

This website was developed on behalf of Amanda Stones for the Pulham St Mary Parish Council. Amanda managed the project and provided the designs for the website. WordPress was used as the foundation of the website. Custom widgets were developed and 3rd party plugins were used and modified to give the functionality desired. Visit: http://www.pulhamstmarypc.org.uk/ [...]

Completed: Project Management CMS Web Application

I provided the coding services for this content management system (CMS), search and booking functionality on behalf of Kiss Online Marketing for an international project management training company. The administration system was developed using the EXT JS and CodeIgniter frameworks. This CMS allows for course details and schedules to be quickly and easily maintained using [...]

Launch: ‘Discover Hawes’ Java J2ME Mobile Phone Application

The ‘Discover Hawes’ Java (J2ME) mobile phone application was developed on behalf of AudioTrails.co.uk for The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Visitors to Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales can now discover the town via the latest mobile technology. Mobile phone users can download a free guide from the National Park Centre by using the bluetooth feature [...]

Dover Arts Development New Website Launched

 Dover Arts Development promote contemporary visual arts in the Dover District. Their new website provides a full content management system (CMS) developed using Drupal. The CMS allows editors to manage projects, artist profiles, news and media from a single administration interface. Image resizing, cropping and formatting is performed automatically by the CMS to greatly [...]

Betfair PHP Application Completed

Betfair PHP Demo is simple application developed for a customer wanting a basic application which they could use as a framework for building a more complex betting interface. The application is developed in PHP5 and uses SOAP to interact with Betfair to login, select markets, get account details and place bets. Page data refreshes automatically [...]

Site Launch: The Chocolution

The Chocolution sell healthy, raw chocolate making kits. Their chocolate is created using methods that preserve the natural goodness in the cacao bean which mainstream commercial processes destroy. The site was completed in collaboration with Edda Jones who provided the designs. Morley Computing used the designs to build the site using HTML, PHP and CSS. [...]

Drupal: 500 Internal Server Error on Modules Page

When enabling Drupal modules a 500 Internal Server Error can often appear with the default installation. Too identify the cause of the problem look in the error_log file for your web server. Each time I have encountered this problem the cause has been due to the PHP memory limit being exceeded. The typical error message [...]