Kiranatama

Built in early 2009, we keep maintaining and upgrading the site until now.

The site helps tourists and travellers find great and fun attractions across England, and helps attraction owners list and advertise their place to the world, with detailed information about the place such as op...

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Built in early 2009, we keep maintaining and upgrading the site until now.

The site helps tourists and travellers find great and fun attractions across England, and helps attraction owners list and advertise their place to the world, with detailed information about the place such as opening hour, photos, etc.

Interesting features include:

• Location (radius) base search (ie, find something within X miles from a certain location) using GeoKit
• Google Map integration
• Multi-tenant system where it allows different users manage different data

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This project in 2009 has basically an HTML interface and a Flex interface.

The HTML interface is for the main landing page, the other site pages, and the registration pages with SSL, and also a custom-built admin area for CMS. This HTML interface has also a lot of cool Javascript featu...

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This project in 2009 has basically an HTML interface and a Flex interface.

The HTML interface is for the main landing page, the other site pages, and the registration pages with SSL, and also a custom-built admin area for CMS. This HTML interface has also a lot of cool Javascript features like slideshow, lightbox, etc.

The Flex interface is displayed after a user logs in. It has access control mechanism as who can use what features depending on what package the user buys. In general it serves as a social networking application and training management tool for athletes

The project is unfortunately stopped, but interesting technologies developed or experienced include:

•  Rightscale to manage deployments with Amazon EC2 and S3, complete with load balancing, automatic backup to S3, failover capability, and automatic notification when the server instances are down.
• Of course with Elastic IPs and Dynamic DNS
• A complete subscription billing code from purchase, cancel, and upgrades, with both Paypal Website Payments Standard and on-site credit card payment (ActiveMerchant)
• A flex module with Google Maps enabling users to create a running route by just clicking around on a map, calculate its distance, save the route and share it with friends

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This site serves as a health and wellness portal for businesses, users, and particularly health practitioners. They will have basic social networking features such as status updates, messaging system, personal blogs, friends and invitations, and groups. Unfortunately the project was stopped du...

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This site serves as a health and wellness portal for businesses, users, and particularly health practitioners. They will have basic social networking features such as status updates, messaging system, personal blogs, friends and invitations, and groups. Unfortunately the project was stopped due to the recession in early 2009.

Interesting features include:

• Video conversion using Nirvanix, but later changed to ffmpeg
• Background processing using Workling - particularly when transcoding the video files to flv
• Integrating session login with PhpBB forum

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From early 2008 until late 2008, two or our developers helped upgrade and maintain this Rails application. The client is an established internet business company that sells advertisement space in his pet portal website.

Interesting experience includes:

• Working with a...

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From early 2008 until late 2008, two or our developers helped upgrade and maintain this Rails application. The client is an established internet business company that sells advertisement space in his pet portal website.

Interesting experience includes:

• Working with a website that is using a language other than English
• Installing ffmpeg to convert the videos uploaded to FLV, so that the videos play uniformly
• Using ActiveMQ to serve as the threading process. For example, after user upload a video we want to convert the video to FLV. So that user doesnt have to wait during the conversion, we use ActiveMQ (like Sterling) so that the conversion happens in the background.
• We tried acts_as_ferret plugin on one of our project, but later switch to using Ultrasphinx for the searching feature.
• Using widgEditor instead of the usual fckEditor or tinyMCE

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We built a waste management system for hospital facilities in the US and Canada for our client who is a Canadian IT consultant back in mid 2008.

The application will give access to hospital staffs and admins to, among others, enter waste data, categorize them into recycling, hazardous,...

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We built a waste management system for hospital facilities in the US and Canada for our client who is a Canadian IT consultant back in mid 2008.

The application will give access to hospital staffs and admins to, among others, enter waste data, categorize them into recycling, hazardous, etc, and view numerous reports and statistics with a graphical interface.

Interesting technological aspects include:

• Complete unit tests for every statistical functions
• Smart country and state dropdowns with Javascript
• Extending basic Ruby classes. For example, the site needs 'dd/mm/yyyy' format on every date that it displays, so we extend the ruby Date class, adding 'format_date' method to all date objects, which makes the code much cleaner.
• Using Google chart and later switch to Open flash chart to display statistics and reports

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