Projects

This page lists my side projects worked on in my own time. I have more on the way soon!
You can also read about what I'm currently up to at work on my about page.

Bubbly Clouds

Bubbly Clouds

Bubbly Clouds is James Acres' sole trader business identity. It is the parent brand of upcoming projects. Between October 2013 and September 2021 it operated as a web hosting, SSL and domains business. This business stopped operating due to rising costs from cPanel and WHMCS partners and a decline in clients following the 2020 pandemic. I provided various local businesses across the South of England with PHP, Node.js, Python, Perl and more with the industry leading cPanel and WHM all of which I managed at Linode. I provided personal technical support across a wide range of web, email, networking and sysadmin issues, plus of course the usual business as usual.

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Sudoku Share

Sudoku Share

WORK IN PROGRESS! - 🌱 Sudoku of the day - We publish a new challenge each day - 📸 Import a Sudoku - Scan in seconds using your camera e.g. one from a newspaper, puzzle book or a sudoku website and solve it in this app instead of on paper! - 🧠 Solve on your phone, laptop or tablet - continue on another device - 🤾‍♂️ Share a Sudoku with family and friends - see who can complete it fastest - ✅ Check your work, reveal solution of square/grid if desired - This app is Open Source - if you want to see how it’s made

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Music Rating

Music Rating

A website hosting music ratings for Stephen Esch. Now running version two which is a statically generated site with React and Next.js. Version one was dynamic using Node.js, Knex+Postgres, S3, AngularJS.

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Eurovisionr

Now offline, a collaboration with Jade Elliott, a fun, simple and interactive way to pick the song you want to support at the current year's Eurovision Song Contest. eurovisionr started in 2013 with category filters and has just been relaunched for 2014 with new ranking features. The AngularJS frontend requested data from a Node.js powered backend API which connected to a MongoDB database and returned JSON.

Geolert Location Based Mobile Coupons

Final year project at University of Southampton. In this project a location-based coupon application is designed, implemented, tested and evaluated. Merchants add coupons into the website application which are then pushed to consumer Android devices as they enter merchant brick and mortar places using geofences.