Sqeakr was my final year project for my degree and was a pretty big task. It is a collaborative application for musicians which allows them to sign up and post threads asking other musicians for support on how to record music. It is basically a forum that allows the users to post up their tracks for appraisals from other musicians.

I decided to build Sqeakr from the ground up in PHP and it turned out to be a mammoth task. The site didn’t get fully completed but the general functionality is in place along with most of the styling. The extensive bug log and wish list can be seen here, while the blog for the project can be viewed here.

The site can be viewed here.

This site was for a project in a first year module called Media Technology. This site required that we build a website in flash for a favorite musician. The site had to incorporate short sections of music that had been optimised for the web, and a video of the performer. The video has been taken off for copyright reasons.

Having already had some experience of flash I found this project quite straight forward. The most challenging aspect was embedding the video into the flash movie with a stop and start button. The reason I have put it up is because I feel it was my first piece of successful design work that I accomplished on my own. I am especially pleased with the logo as it is the result of a lot of work on hand rendered typography, which has had an effect on the design of www.jordanneenan.com.

The site can be viewed here.

This currency converter was built for a module called Advanced Topics in Web Development to teach the basics of building REST based applications. While I find rest a fairly wishy-washy concept (which I will likely blog about soon), this currency converter was a very interesting project as it allowed me to explore some areas of PHP that I hadn’t used before, namely SimpleXML and caching.

The converter uses a web service to keep the currency values up to date with a database on the back end that stores the currency codes, full country names and the locations in which the currency is used. It is outputted in an XML format (best viewed in Firefox as it structures XML automatically) which enables the converter to be manipulated and used by other applications which can then add some GUI.

The service can be viewed here.