Projects
Coding & Blogging#
Creator and contributor to GopherCoding, a code-based tutorial site for Go (the programming language) - built with a static site generator Hugo. This site also has articles on Docker and distributed systems, all things to do with modern backend development.
Created the OrphanRawRemover - a tool for removing counterpart raw files if the jpg files aren’t present. Useful when clearing out your un-wanted photos.
Made a quick “Find my IP” service.
Created the site MakeWithHugo to publish tutorials for Hugo, the static-site generator. These include how to get started with the cli-based tool, useful shortcodes for existing sites and how-to guides to add functionality like search to a staticly generated site. And all featuring Hugo the rabbit.
Originally a University project, Turtle Player (code) is now a community-driven open-source music player for Android. Both the Android app and the website were originally created by Edd.
Maintainer of a PHP composer package to generate AWS signatures to directly upload files to S3.
Created a small Heroku app to generate a random famous quote (code) on each run - built so that automated messages could be made more interesting.
Contributor to open-source projects like apidocs, dompdf and hugo-theme-cactus-plus.
A side project offering property releated api data, called MyPropertyStory.
Web Projects#
- Celtic Sea Watersports - designed and built a website for a local company offering sailing lessons and equipment hire in pembrokeshire.
Speaking#
- October 2013 – Talk at Swansea Met University on “Web & Software Development in a Startup Culture’ — http://appliedcomputin.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/guest-speaker-edd-turtle-from-hoowla/