http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/ Chris Goddard.co.uk RSS Feed en-gb Copyright (C) 2012 chris-goddard.co.uk http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 21 May 2012 00:05:53 BST 15 http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/images/header.png http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/ The first proper eCommerce system has just been completed. Over the next few days the system will go public and will undergo t... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/ecommerce-system-version-1 cf473686a10f24c18801c2528ce0ca30 Software Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard While interfacing live twitter feeds with websites, a main issue has come up where Twitter only allows for a client to pull the... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/twitter-feed-downloader 33b6ddc438b19580a37a589047a0e6dd Software Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard This is based on a set of algorithms that are used to determine the sunrise, sunset, solar noon and twilight times (civil, naut... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/sun-timer f2f0310b5203ac4ead0fdc43484ca6ed Software Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard In another attempt to save as much power as possible, I have written a program that automatically forces the system to go into ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/auto-hibernator c6f8f547637d44b30d21d1ef463d6bb4 Software Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard As the summer is coming, and the issues of power bills coupled with a south facing room, keeping the temperature down is vital... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/room-controller-v2 3b4e90008b5d445f04c7a07718511486 Hardware Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Thanks to University and Mango Digital, I have now written an online Work Manager. This is designed to help me and any team I'm... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/work-manager 0e56c308709e0a2c98945f0fa9f65a7f Software Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Since starting CMS for Mango Digital in August 2010, there has been a lot of development and adjustment. The CMS has now finall... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/mango-digital-cms-beta-testing-on-sika-academy faaf6d2d7d5b4122cdb5c7c4105c0c7e Websites Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard As everyone knows, when your renting accommodation, sometimes the houses don't have the best allowances for networked computers... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/local-computer-network-setup 2adcb853af789f493c49ab9562bd06af Hardware Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard For the last year since starting my site, I have been running the website on 1 and 1 servers. Since then, I have discovered a n... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/evohosting-switchover 2a2cf83094ce99811514f467258ddb07 General Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard During the development of the CMS, I have started to implement objects that require cron jobs. With the hosting package I am wi... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/cron-job-executor bd439ce640ff4edf9fc4898722144547 Software Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Since beginning the development of the CMS, I have now finished a number of modules linked to the display area. The loader for ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/mango-digital-cms-development dabcb8600395a447994db1ccd29c67ab Software Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Since I started with my Server Farm, I have wanted to be able to transfer many of my online hosting systems onto these servers.... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/load-balance-server c12845aa71d2a176a069cf3d74cc41a0 Software Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard This is a new project that I have decided to work on to power my server network on. It is a single application with several plu... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/internet-framework-services 11c0fef2adc982cc3cdc963529a88b54 Software Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Back in 2006, I discovered a set of methods that run over HTTP known as WebDAV. It is a set of functions that allow users to vi... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/webdav-research b840236eabec44687f53b12f6c8258d7 Software Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard In the last few days while I have been looking at the developer API's created by Google for their analytics service. I have fou... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/google-analytics-integration-to-cms 612c5cb553d52665baabdd57693160a7 Software Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard While working for Mango Digital, I have been using a number of computer systems to develop the websites. I have been using my l... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/cross-computer-document-synchroniser 87c8fe53fbe819d888a227e9e510685b Software Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard In the last few days, I have managed to acquire 5 new servers to add to my farm. These servers are going to be added to the exi... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/new-server-integration ef8b90985a9254820827b34dff8d6860 Software Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After working on and off on the site for mango digital, the beta has finally been released. The site is a front end for Mango D... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/mango-digital-website-release 4d0726772c8caab897cc5d1d86d7d978 Websites Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard For Mango Digital, the most pressing project now is the Quote Calculator. This is a series of Tween Coding and AJAX script mixe... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/quote-calculator f4c23ccda83f3f483a5c0a5f4b1734fc Software Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After working with the XNA engine for a few years now, I have now decided to move on into a more professional way of programmin... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/irrlicht-engine e906c91b327ad521da84c045682c31f8 Software Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard While developing the CMS system that will be designed for Mango Digital, one annoyance that has developed is the creating and m... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/menu-generator a6baf1229607cfc066b523948c0ef18b Software Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard I have created a sitemap system so that Google and other search engines can find my site. The old system just went through the ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/sitemap-creator 4996a17a47a981b85529017b2d9612d8 Software Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After working with Mango Digital for the last few weeks, I have started working on a completely customisable Content Management... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/cms-system c4381655830b856639808bf4de2f8a18 Software Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After doing some research into simple creation of hardware, I found a number of projects. http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/arduino-device b299dd69f4403edb693cf5dcfca28342 Electronics Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the last week or so, I have been working on a rendering in Cinema 4D. It was an abstract piece of work experimenting with ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/glass-tubes-rendering 8cbbe945fb6d7f39aad58eebd70f40e3 Cinema 4D Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard On my computer, I have a number of tools, gadgets and widgets to display all kinds of information I need. These are located all... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/dashboard 75662742e6aa8026755e6a65d164270b Software Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Since doing some part time work for Mango Digital, I have now started working full time for them. Mango Digital is a small comp... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/mango-digital 12820b7a56a59e215a46c21275f88036 General Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After speaking to several schools, I have been accepted to host a number of talks about the bloodhound project. A few days ago,... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/bloodhound-ssc-presentation 4e9ef9c2665b93e27083895b22ae0d11 General Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard I have recently experienced an unauthorised database modification on my server that caused all the data to be lost. Fortunately... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/sql-injection-protection-on-search-engine 1a678dc66fbe57516601bec639096fe4 Websites Wed, 19 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After a few requests, I have decided to publish the source code for my CMS. This CMS was custom built to my own specifications ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/personal-cms-publication f7f384cf96e4aac8c296caf2774732bc Software Tue, 11 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard A few days ago, during an experiment I managed to blow up my variable power supply. As it was a cheap one, it was not protected... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/variable-power-supply 0ddf953281a0becbcdcf6f37fb55e3d3 Electronics Sat, 08 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Since releasing the second version of my website, I have started researching on how to make websites more Search Engine friendl... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/website-update-for-seo 810b39f0ae8b0d00579d5ae7dfcc9440 Websites Sun, 02 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the last few weeks I have discovered exactly how annoying power cuts can be when working on important write ups, programmi... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/ups-development da7ae2887e60e6822a62af37c50a9960 Electronics Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the last few weeks, in between working on coursework and preparation for exams, I have been working on a website design fo... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/intrepid-partners-second-design 523ed2ec00524ccd35444283d3a15e9a Websites Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard As part of my course, I have been working on a device that connected to a computer via USB to provide an input output interface... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/usb-io-controller 1f4e1bd9b349799150b8e3103d86dc90 Hardware Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the last few weeks, I have become involved with a project partially run by the University of the West of England, but is m... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/bloodhound-ssc-ambassador 100d5deac19a362805ad0e8f34ee7de2 General Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After much work over the last few weeks, I have finally implemented my search engine into my website. This I have worked on fro... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/website-search-engine-implementation 00c0411999f232dbc75f6e5292b26546 Websites Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard During my playing around with the Hair Module in Cinema 4D, I have discovered that it can be used for other things than the cre... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/cinema-4d-rope-creation 5191d4c2c4a29572786117022ba99776 Cinema 4D Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Along with other new features in Cinema 4D, the hair module has been improved as well. I have been doing some tests with the mo... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/cinema-4d-grass-tests 99ce80c9130f2645fba9df5d0b3f8f97 Cinema 4D Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard For the last year or so, I have been building up a sound system that currently involves a mixing desk, a compressor and a graph... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/audio-crossover 8add0f7a0e4079f560661ab39468101e Electronics Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Currently, I am living in university halls, where the internet is not as open as it would be on a home internet connection. The... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/vpn-network 623a575449be04597fda78224027838e Software Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard For almost a year now, I have been using a wireless keyboard for my computer. The keyboard itself has been built to avoid usage... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/caps-tray c0e80ca537e9a9a4ecfd177d4eda2543 Software Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the last few days, I have found a non-commercial plugin called Destruction. This plugin is used to break up any polygon ob... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/cinema-4d-destruction-plugin 018f4fd2f466e67d720450494173e8ef Cinema 4D Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After lots of tedious work, I have finally finished transfering over what I had of my database from the old site to the new one... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/database-transfer-complete 2907f1b94c12b4eade8b10eaad271d6d General Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Recently, I have started playing with the new version of Cinema 4D, R11.5. The new release is so much better than any previous ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/mograph-2-test 22d4aaa1923ce145b02d48c9886a93ef Cinema 4D Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Since launching my new site, I have been working on making it compatible with as many browsers as possible and making it work a... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/database-transfer 164e23c6fdb1e8036553e2a5a549cbea General Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After working on this little project for the last few weeks, I now have a working MySQL Farm running on 4 Dell Poweredge 2550 S... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/mysql-farm-complete 52f39226f3ad20a80734029b836d3fae Software Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard As I have said before, I am working on building a MySQL Farm. As the project is almost finished, I am starting work on the next... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/cloud-server-network ef1b1ebf942c39d410742fd36b74a0d0 Software Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After much work since the launch of the site, I have finally got around to updating the look to a more modern and user friendly... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/website-update 575738d2d806314ef6445c7aa798fbff Websites Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the last few days, I have been working with a few friends to make a website for a Flash Mob that is set to take place acro... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/uk-big-freeze-website 515d3732c7e87454d8abf6122781074a Websites Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After lots of work in Cinema 4D and BodyPaint 3D, I have now completed all the modelling for the Screen Saver. All the modellin... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/city-screen-saver-modelling-complete 897b2472d1c1180a43b43a56d1db1ad3 Cinema 4D Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Recently since acquiring my new laptop and my main computer crashing, I have been going through a phase of syncing all of my di... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/facebook-contacts-sync 00909a7df96a96d74f84d43dad4bd947 Software Mon, 23 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After seeing a few interesting clips and pictures from other people on the web, I have started a few Cinema 4D experiments to ma... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/stereo-video-test-in-cinema-4d 8f6a5a758e48fe7671c83c614d008045 Cinema 4D Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After working on the Recording Studio Software for some time, I have now got it working to a level that I have been able to use... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/recording-studio-software-completion 5b9a6c13b517d0a4a821ce76b0641596 Software Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the next few days, I am going to begin building a MySQL Server Farm to be the main database for all my projects requiring i... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/beginning-work-on-mysql-farm b79837377ccc05db4171599ace898caf Software Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After much work with several of the XNA projects I have been working on. I have incorporated a couple of the items along with s... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/city-screen-saver b97ff30e79a318edae2bbb44868062b1 Software Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After completing the XNA Sound Library, I have now completed work on the XNA Animation Library and am starting to use it with a... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/xna-animation-library-completed 1dfecf3591ecc369c368c95ff8853c91 Software Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard After much work, the sound library I have been building for my projects has finally been completed. The sound library is designe... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/xna-sound-library-completed d68a0b1ff5a6514550c2b7ef8d0824f5 Software Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard I have now updated my list of created bots to include a bot I made a long time ago to create fireworks for events. http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/active-worlds-fireworks-bots 28584821d31720589a5942ab5aa06be1 Software Tue, 10 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Today, I found out about LinkedIn. I have now put my profile onto LinkedIn and attached my website to it. Please take the time t... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/now-on-linkedin c6ea446d72bd56bea4a7c459251063f8 General Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Today, the initial beta of the XNA Particle Library was compiled. After much testing, there were no immediate errors, but when m... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/xna-particle-library-paused 9155889185eb3d00c85dad79476b4356 Software Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard The site has now been updated to create a better format of categorizing all blog entries and creating a much simpler navigation ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/site-update 569674390dcae84195d10613ef2e7eb3 Websites Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard At long last, the internet connection has finally been restored. The gallery page is now being updated with a selection of video... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/gallery-updates d403122a64e986306ff82683216e8330 Gallery Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Recently, I have been doing lots of work with XNA building 3D programs and games. In the last few weeks, a project has started c... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/xna-libraries 8702a736bddd0044d71469556ec5a71c Software Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard While doing research for my Recording Studio Software, I have discovered a Library that provides a major benefit to the project... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/naudio ba2f53bbcd36d977c144a1c0c03505d5 Software Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Over the last few weeks, a few of my friends have got together and started a small band. I am doing the audio for this band, inc... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/recording-studio-software aebf8707290bcc82fdfa31a7c61a65ed Software Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard In a previous post I said that I would be uploading some of my content onto the website. Unfortunately, on Friday, the universit... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/upload-delay dc872e9b0f28ebc8072c227c78d49dac Gallery Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard I have now updated my list of bots that I have created for Active Worlds. It now includes all the previous versions of the bots ... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/active-worlds-bots 94b3df87478d1ac8a529761eb9d3b0a6 Software Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Today, to coincide with the release of the website, work on the Gallery has begun. I am in the process of rendering my Cinema 4D... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/gallery-items c194689d90e6a469a1a997393b387b67 Gallery Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard In conjunction with the release of the website, my projects page has been updated with a large portion of my work. These projects... http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/addition-of-projects e65c70e62803e5dbc9902095d591e616 General Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard Today, I launched my website onto the internet. All completed projects, future projects and gallery items are on this site. http://www.chris-goddard.co.uk/blog/website-launch 1420afb42d08a2441ce9282674b87d2e Websites Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000 Chris Goddard