STYLEAID App

August 18, 2012

I recently built the app for Style Aid whilst working for Gatecrasher Advertising. A mobile game of Pass The Parcel was played on the event night (27th of July 2012), where 15 electronic parcels will were passed around the room and won at random. Users who had downloaded the app and then register. Push Notifications using UrbanAirship were sent as each parcel was sent around.

Guests at STYLEAID had the opportunity to have their very own red carpet moment. Photographs were taken and uploaded into a CMS and then users could share on facebook or twitter.

I used .NET MVC to handle the requests from the app in a REST methodology and a simple windows service was created to change update who had the parcel and to send the push notifications.

More info about the event can be found at the West Yahoo website http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/video/watch/30111603/21086646/

HELP! Most of my automated emails are being marked as spam

June 28, 2011

Does the website you’re building generate emails, either from a form result or as a thankyou to an end user, or a password reminder?

C# Elo Rating Class used on Facemash as seen in the Social Network Movie

November 8, 2010

If you wondered what that highly complicated and fancy Algorithm on the Social Network movie is wonder no more.

What do you do when you can't afford 30k for Facemash.com?

November 8, 2010

Simple you buy the .au version instead!Check it out at www.facemash.com.au It made me laugh when in the Social Network Movie Mark Zuckerberg had to ask his buddy Eduardo Saverin , played by Andrew Gardfield for the rating algorithm.

Which data type should you use C#

November 1, 2010

MSDN BlogI find it kind of interesting that they're telling programmers not to use Byte, sbyte, short, ushort, uint, and ulong seems a bit silly if those data types aren't worth the hassle and you can't figure which one to use maybe you shouldn't be programming?

C # Google Sitemap.xml class

September 5, 2010

I originally wrote C# class because I couldn't find a simple class for dynamically creatingthe sitemap.xml file that google and other search engines like use to crawl your site. It was written some time ago for a previous website called eFood Order. and since then I have used it several times. I think its more relevant if I post it here though.