Freelance Web Developer Ireland

07/07/2015

First public-facing site I've done in a while, first MODX site I've done in even longer. Hopefully last site I'll ever build with a broken wrist! Thanks Martina Hamilton for the continued custom

Buy on-line from Martina Hamiltons sterling silver and gold multi-award winning contemporary jewellery collections. Our jewellery is handmade at our workshop in Sligo, Ireland and hallmarked under the stringent quality conditions of the Irish Assay Office

14/06/2015

Thanks to a push (well technically a pull) from Mat Dave Jones via Github, my MODX user export extra Xodus now supports MODX 2.3.x and has been promoted to PL status.

Xodus 1.0.0-pl Released Mar 13, 2014 by freelancewebdev Xodus is a simple MODX Revolution extra to enable the export of users from chosen user groups to CSV or Excel file format. Xodus was coded by Joe Molloy and first released in November 2012. Xodus makes use of a modified version of PHPExcel (htt…

11/05/2015

Forget or or , makes an elegantly simple build tool for front end dev.

Last month I noted my opinions on why we should stop using Grunt, Gulp et al. I suggested we should start using npm instead. Here's how...

10/02/2015

Dropbox-like self hosted file storage and sharing solution ownCloud Server has just hit version 8.0. With clients for web, desktop and phone, definitely worth a look.

ownCloud Server 8.0 has significant feature improvements for users, administrators and developers. This page contains an overview of the most important features and improvements.

09/02/2015

The next version of my favourite Linux distro Elementary OS edges closer with the announcement of Freya Beta 2.

Elementary OS is a light, fast, free, accessible, high quality operating system with a somewhat OSX like aesthetic which runs great on even older machines.

If you're looking to cut software licensing or hardware purchasing costs, Elementary OS is definitely worth a look

http://goo.gl/JftO89

18/09/2014

Just pushed a simple but reasonably robust Python script to download phone photos backed up to Dropbox

DropboxCameraDownloader - A simple but robust Python script to download the photos automatically backed up from your phone inot the 'Camera Uploads' folder.

17/09/2014

Just pushed a simple Python script with a silly name to upload all image/video files in a particular folder to Flickr

Contribute to FlickrPyUploader development by creating an account on GitHub.

09/09/2014

This is a very devious and potentially effective phishing attack. While GMail is the service discussed it's worth emphasising that it could be used to trick users into giving their credentials for any site.

The web is a generative and wild place. Sometimes I think I missed my calling; being devious is so much fun. Too bad my parents brought me up with scruples.

25/05/2014

Been having some eye problems over the last year that have limited me to doing relatively small extracurricular projects - been playing with Python quite a bit.

Here's a script to migrate files from Dropbox to Chinese cloud storage provider Baidu

http://goo.gl/r03i7G

15/03/2014

Accessing the Twitter streaming api using Node JS, the Twit module and some JQuery to bring you the skinny on what's happening with Paddy's Day around the world

12/08/2013

Reviewing ancient correspondence today I found this:

And suddenly, in the blink of an eye, it's all beyond me. Now I understand the look on my fathers face when I brought home the first CD player... how his eyes slowly and remorsefully strayed to the massive piles of vinyl stacked round the floor of the living room ...

A client - 2003 :D

01/07/2013

With nothing but email metadata, you can paint a pretty complete picture of your personal and professional universe.