Development – Duck Whistle — design and computing services

Tube map of business databases — Outside of Duck Whistle, I have been doing the following roles. Working as a Data Specialist in The University of Manchester Library (see the Business Research Plus blog and Library Research Plus blog) Working as a Research Assistant at Alliance Manchester Business School (see the Phil Reed Data blog) In […]

Development highlights, 2013 to 2016

21 June 2016 in Development tagged Business databases / Java / Python by Phil

Design of webpages and database for a searchable band directory for EXR (using PHP and MySQL, with XHTML and CSS). Work on exam server and student registration at University of Manchester, withAssessment21 and the Assess By Computer software, 2004 to 2008 with freelance work thereafter. Amazon AWS cloud virtual server […]

Development highlights, 2004 to 2012

31 January 2012 in Development tagged Collaboration / HTML5 / JavaScript / XHTML by Phil

In November I was asked to install HOBO, an excellent extension to Ruby on Rails, on a Windows PC, using MySQL as its database. HOBO is new, and at the time, only compatible with Rails 2. So I learned Rails 3 from a book and used various websites to fill […]

Installing HOBO on Windows with MySQL

25 January 2011 in Development tagged HOBO / MySQL / Rails / Ruby / Windows by Phil