Category: "Work"
TheSpanishIndex provided an online yellow pages resource for English speakers who live in Spain. It was a portal to many English speaking, Spanish companies providing services from Building to Plumbing or from Financial Advisers to Legal Services. It's all in one place.
TheSpanishIndex is also available in printed format.
What we do
We build and run TheSpanishIndex web site. The site contains blogging software, property search, featured ads, vet-able reciprocal links pages, and a searchable index of advertisers.
Each advertiser can manage all their properties quickly and easily.
Technology
The application was built using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP stack). We used the open source product OpenX (phpAdsNew) for the banner delivery system. B2evolution for the blogging software.
All the selected technology were open source so once the end customer had paid for the application there were no re-occurring costs.
Quantel is a manufacturer of high-end visual effects and editing systems for film and television and I worked on the Enterprise sQ Broadcast System in the fast-to-air broadcast news and sports division. An iQ server system consists of several sQ Servers and a number of video editing stations.
This project was originally a collaboration between the National Centre for Languages (CILT) and Oxford Brookes University's Modern Languages school. Research in Modern languages in the UK provides an online single point of reference for research interests in modern language studies across the UK.
Company
360 Degrees Inspire is an agile, responsive, well resourced and client focused advertising agency that works in partnership with its clients to meet their human capital attraction, selection and retention needs.
Prominently working on Macro4's UniQ products. The companies flagship product was UniQPrint which handled batch printing.
Monitoring the products became important so I implemented the SNMP agents for the UniQ products and wrote integration software to link HP OpenView and other network monitoring software. The Management Information Base (MIB) contains references to the IANA Enterprise Specific Number (search for 2196) which I set up for the company.