Personal collective of ideas, thoughts and notes
This was a fun small side project inspired by the Microsoft POC and a mashup between Facebook, social media feeds and events. I had a vision that event attendees and fans could collaborate and share media, news and happenings directly at and during a live event.
This was one of my first code based implementation of a “live” timeline. The app was PHP based with a mySQL DB, the UI was all custom designed and coded.
Shortly before Charlotte being born, I recognized that there were quite a few US websites focused on support moms going through their journey of pregnancy, and the early years of of raising kids. Trying to emulate this for the South African market and emerging internet base, I built momz.co.za.
The page title was “Helping South African Moms with pregnancy, recipes, food, forums, safety and kids”
Technology wise the product was built using the community platform Dolphin, from Boonex. It is a great product and had multiple social media aspects available out of the box along with features like forums, blogs, groups and news, which was perfect for launching this community.
RSSza was a website I developed in 2007, it was essentially a content/link aggregator which periodically ran pulling in news and information from RSS feeds. It was probably the first web app I had developed which got some traction and I received some good, and constructive comments from folks on various areas of improvement. After some feedback the site was considered “information overload”, I let users create a profile and customize their feeds.
I shut the site down in around 2011.
A list of web sites I have designed and built over the years. Majority were full-stack projects and a couple are still online and going strong.
As a huge believer and consumer of open source software, tools or frameworks, I have enjoyed giving back to the community through a variety of projects.
My competitive nature early on during my studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon, in the pre-“hackathon” days where companies would put up a memo at your local university asking to get a challenge done 🙂 Myself and one other student won some $$$ analyzing and suggesting improvements for a local website.
This competition led to me getting a part-time job with company as a software developer.
A list of my notable and memorable desktops, laptops, electronic and equipment from all these years.
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