Last year, I started a small side project. I spent a few hours looking at various JavaScript Frameworks before deciding which looked best to use. I then spend a couple of days worth of work building a proof of concept of my program.
The framework certainly helped at first, however …
Back in 2014, I was curious how the proportional representation system used for the EU elections, the D'Hondt method, worked. I built a simple javascript program to allocate the seats based on the number of votes for different parties, then added recent opinion polls to the page to see how …
For the past three weeks, I have been at a suppliers factory testing a project prior to delivery to site. The other day, one of the managers of the other company came over to our group and gave a graduate a challenge, write an excel script to colour each cell …
At work, I occasionally have to modify visio drawings created by others.
When I am making a drawing, I always ensure each segment of a line is a seperate line, which makes modifying later much easier. Unfortunatly few others do it this way and just use polly lines.
The following …
I regularly use the excellent rednotebook for my daily notes at work. I recently decided I wanted to add a feature to the export dialogue which would allow the user to export only a selection of text. A code reviewer suggested that, if the …
After having to use conference calling to an international number for work, then dial the meeting room code, I decided to have a go at a project idea I had over a year ago. I wanted to create a webapp that would, given a number, ‘dial’ that number using the …
I have recently had some spare time and chose to use it updating impress adding some new features.
For anyone who has not heard me talk about impress: it is a simple mass balance tool designed for chemical engineers to use during the early stages of design. This application is …
Introducing IMPRESS: the Interactive Multi-user PRocess Engineering Simulation Suite.
As my final year ChemEng research project I have built a program that helps build a mass balance for processes.
The program is accessed through a web page (so you don't need to install anything) and can handle having more than …
For a project I am doing for my dad, I created a form that requires the user to input lots of times. This was to be done in the format "HH:MM:SS". After I created the form and handed the project over for testing, it was mentioned that typing …
Whilst working on ImpAmp, I was attempting to catch when the user typed ' or / into the window without activating the firefox quick search. After hunting around on the web, I found lots of places telling me how to deactivate it permanently which is not what I want. Normally I find …
