We were commissioned by a company to create a complete software application based upon their horse race betting system design. The application needed to perform all of the required odds and stake calculations for the user, as well as communicate with a web server to obtain daily updates. We delivered the desktop application in Java and also created a feature rich web based content delivery and user registration system for the software using PHP & MySQL. The software is currently on sale at www.thebettingmachine.com, where screenshots and customer testimonials can be seen.

We were hired to create a blogging system with a twist for this client. They required a system whereby users of their kiosk machines could create and post entries to a blog website about their experiences at various hostels around the world. The entries could consist of typed content, or they could be handwritten by making use of the touch screen and stylus functionality on the machines. Support was also needed for the users to be able to add video and image attachments as well as rate and search through existing posts with ease. The result was a C++ based application we created for them which also made use of the wxWidgets toolkit. It provided a simple, yet powerful interface and communicated with a customized version of the b2evolution PHP based blogging system.

Remeber the old classic live action arcade shooters by American Laser Games like Mad Dog McCree and Crime Patrol? Well that's what this project was all about. We were hired to recreate a video clip based game engine which allowed the player to fire at targets on screen using a lightgun or mouse pointer. For this, we produced a C++ based application that used SDL to create a highly configurable system capable of creating and playing back scripted video sequences. It allowed the creator to load in mpeg encoded video files and define target areas, as well as set various options for it (such as ammunition limits, ability to reload, etc).

One of our clients wanted an easy solution to downloading and converting video files from Google and YouTube. For this, we created a C++ desktop application which allowed the user to enter a video URL and then pick from a popular format to save the result to. The software would then connect to the site, download the video and convert it by making use of the open source ffmpeg libraries to the desired format.