Hello I am Luke Ward
I like to make things for the web and experiment with new technologiesWebsites
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Defend the Web
A handbuilt security community. Offering 40+ levels, forum, user profiles, messaging and a whole lot more. The site now has over 600,000 registered users and growing steadily.
- HTML5
- jQuery
- MySQL
- Node.js
- OO-PHP
- Python
- CSS3 (SASS)
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Sequel Group
Spent five years at Sequel Group building and maintaining a wide range of internal and public sites and apps for a wide range of high profile global brands.
- Angular
- HTML
- jQuery
- MySQL
- PHP
- CSS
- Wordpress
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BBC News
Between my 2nd and 3rd year at university I had an industrial year which I spent with BBC News Specials. While at the BBC I built a wide range of features and interactive content for the BBC News website. Working closely with journalists and designers to tight deadlines.
- HTML
- jQuery
- CSS
Mobile
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Climbing Clinic
Still a work in progress.
- Angular
- Phonegap
- SCSS
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MapWars
For my final year dissertation I built a location-aware multiplater real time stratergy game. The core concept revoloved around the users location being used to position the player within the virtual world. They could then only control their units within a given range of that location. This forced players to move around the real world to access and unlock new places.
- Android
- GeoLocation
- Networking
- Python
- SQLite
Labs
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Matrix stats
A non-intrusive stats bot for Matrix. Polling selected channels to gather updated stats on activity and user participation. Working example can be seen on Defend the Web.
- API
- Node.js
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Developer survey dashboard
Weekend project to visualise the results from HackerRank’s 2018 developer survey. Results are displayed on a 3D/2D map while being filtered by date and location. Further analysis can be viewed for each country.”
- D3
- React
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sta.sh
Small bash script to backup linux configuration files. Quickly store organised configs that can be easily imported into different environments.
- Bash
- GIT
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NexBot - A Node.js IRC bot
NexBot is a modular IRC bot written in Node.js for HackThis!! It features a number of modules including search+replace, issue tracker and hooks to Grooveshark, Last.fm and Google APIs.
- Node.js
- REST
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GIF like mobeen
Bash script to generate personalised GIFs based on BBC comedy Man like Mobeen.
- Bash
- FFmpeg
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Grooveshare
An experimental collaborative listening experience.
- Node.js
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favcounter
A small JS library to add a number overlay to a pages favicon.
- Canvas
- Javascript