PhD Research

Arabic

Static Source Code Analysis Tools and their Application to the Detection of Plagiarism in Java Programs

Ants - Computer Science Project

Data Mining

Semantic Tagging

Java

Audio Player

A Java audio player based on the basic player library from javazoom.net. Features include mp3 playback, play/pause/stop/previous/next/seek/volume controls, m3u playlist management, album art, ID3 tag display/editing, different views. Download (zip including jar and libs), Source.

Solitaire

An implementation based on Microsoft Windows Solitaire. Only allows one card to be moved at a time. This was my first java program (apart from little Hello World type programs) - I decided to write this program while I was in the first year, as it was a second year coursework and the first year java course was pretty dull! I draw the suit symbols using The GIMP (Jack, King, Queen don't yet have pictures).
I learnt a lot about programming, 2D graphics programming (e.g. at first dragging cards created lots of flickering - until I learnt about Double Buffering!) and Java by writing this game.
Go To Solitaire Applet  Download Source

Space Invaders

What to do after I wrote Solitaire? First year Java work? Or maybe create a version of the classic Space Invaders. After writing Solitaire I wrote this simple game. I used the 2D graphics knowledge gained from writing Solitaire and learnt more about programming in Java for example Threads from writing this game.

The Rules: shoot the aliens, before they reach the bottom or shoot you three times. The aliens speed up as the move closer to the bottom, the bonus space craft occassionaly moves across the top and is worth more points.

I created the alien and explosion graphics in The GIMP.

Go To SpaceInvaders Applet  Download Source

Breakout

You'd think that by the time I'd created Solitaire and Breakout, the first year Java course would've have started to get interesting. Well, it didn't so I made Breakout. There is a bug in the game that I didn't get around to fixing - the ball can go throught the side of the bricks.

There are several kinds of bricks - some have to be hit twice to destroy them (yellow), some once (blue), some can't be destroyed (orange).

There are some secret controls that were to be removed when the game was finished: press S to go to the next level (only 2 levels), A to go to the preivous level, M to reverse the mouse direction, - to decrease mouse speed, + to increase mouse speed.

Go To Breakout Applet  Download Source

Letter Count

This is an example of one the 2nd term, 1st year assignments. The specification was to create a command line program to load a file and count the letters - pretty boring stuff. So I made a graphical version. It's prettier.

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Diary

This is the other of the 2nd term, 1st year assignments. The specification was to create a command line diary program. I made a graphical version again. I learnt a lot about Java Swing by doing the application, as well as programming techniques such as the Singleton Pattern.

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Data Compression

• functionpix.com
  • Took over development of this site in August 2006, much of it needed re-writing and there was a lot still to implement in which I haven't been involved since 2007 due to other commitments
  • Main technologies used include
    • PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS
    • GD Image Library for image resizing and effects (B/W etc)
    • RSS and XML for data interchange
    • Integrated and customised Openads adserver
    • Flash Uploader for uploading multiple images
    • AJAX techniques for forms and UI effects (e.g. registration page, newsletter signup, article voting) using the prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries
    • FCKEditor for article submission
    • Currently working on a semantic tagging solution for image searching and retrieval
    • Statistics of site usage e.g. for contributors scores, views, sales, distribution of profits to contributors
• viewdo.com
  • I offered my services after finding a security flaw in their download script.
  • Have been advising, making suggestions and implementing certain features
• Carshalton Boys Sports College
  • Site has since been re-developed
  • I created this website from scratch using PHP and a PostgreSQL database.
  • I also set up and now maintain the Linux RHEL server that it runs on
  • I learnt a lot about programming, databases and specifically PHP and PostgreSQL from this site
• Kalms Associates
  • Simple web site built with Dreamweaver and Photoshop

Some old websites

• My first real website: The Quote Database. Checkout Bourke's Big Book of Quotes for the story behind whoyouknow.co.uk
  • This helped to start learning PHP and database design/implemenation with MySQL.

Software