James Brooks

I started the Happy Dev podcast as a platform for developers to share their experiences with mental health.

We discuss how the software development industry affects mental health and share tips and advice on how to look after yourselves and others.

Any donations to the podcast are sent onwards to different mental health charities.

You can read more about why and how I created Happy Dev at https://james.brooks.page/blog/creating-happiness-out-of-sadness/

Cachet is software that improves downtime.

Great companies all over the world are using Cachet to better communicate downtime and system outages to their customers, teams and shareholders.

Created an epic holding page for a future website. Animated waves & clouds are most definitely the way forward.

After I joined Blue Bay Travel, I lead the re-development of the site. New features were added such as dynamic opening times, a boilerplate system for new & current pages, improved search system and tracking.

Uses the same core code as Caribbean Warehouse, but slightly changed stylesheets and a different table source.

We created a blog using Wordpress that would collate and automatically post content about the upcoming Sonic 4 game. Although we used it as a one-stop-solution to finding out the news, rather than trawling through site-upon-site, we also used it as a platform for testing SEO techniques and optimisations.

A customer facing portal, designed to allow customers to login and view and download their booking documents and receipts.

myBlueBay was also designed to allow customers to contact the different departments at Blue Bay Travel with any queries they may have.

We setup a VPS server with a WHM control panel and resold hosting packages for as little as 99p p/m becoming a cheap, viable and competitive host. Apart from creating the entire website system & design ourselves, we also created and sold other web solutions; news systems, chat systems etc.

iTunesTweet was a Windows only application that would tweet your current track in iTunes.

iTT also had a built in Library Cleaner which would find, list and remove duplicated tracks. Amongst other features, iTT could also mention the artist in the song.

iTunesTweet was built in AutoIt using GDI+, PHP, MySQL and other similar technologies.

I created my own scripting language parser and general code base. Also had a community of about 50 users who were helping create third-party tools such as Editors, Help Files and other resources.

Ceres had gone under several versions, using different approaches to lexing and parsing code.