Nifty Digits is the portfolio of Web Developer Ian Wootten from Cardiff, UK. I build web apps motivated by problems that deserved to be solved. As a backend developer, I'm skilled in a variety of languages and count myself as a well seasoned front-end developer too.

Here you'll find a collection of my work, projects and hacks old and new. Enjoy!

Skills

PHP (including Codeigniter, Lithium)
Javascript (including jQuery, Backbone.js, Node.js, Express.js)
MySQL and CouchDB
Python (including PyQt)
Java (including Swing, Web Services)
HTML5, CSS3, Jade, SASS

Work

Since July 2009 I've been building production management tools at Aardman for the feature film "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists". This has included libraries for tracking, scheduling and reporting on every single puppet / mouthpiece used throughout the production on a daily basis.

Projects

Snappery (Under Development)

Snappery is a tool for saving screenshots of websites straight from your browser. Taking a snap is reduced to clicking a bookmarklet in your browser.

Toolbox: Node.js (Express.js) / CouchDB / Twitter Bootstrap.

Plucky (Under Development)

Plucky is a app for managing your twitter friends / followers in bulk. I began building it after I discovered amongst all my wonderful friends on twitter, I had a multitude of spam bots following me. I wanted to be able to easily weed out those bots.

Toolbox: Node.js (Express.js) / Redis.

Fair & Bare

Fair & Bare was created after failing to find fashionable t-shirts that were also made using Fairtrade certified cotton. I decided to start a competition where I could do exactly that, featuring the amazing artwork submitted by a great community of designers.

Toolbox: PHP (Codeigniter) / MySQL.

Mixbooth

Mixbooth is a simple service for sharing information about DJ mixes. Mixes are found and ranked by the community. I built it because I struggled finding great mixes from unknown DJ's and there didn't seem to be any great sites for them.

Toolbox: PHP (Codeigniter) / CouchDB store.

Contact

Find me @niftydigits on twitter. If you have a project you'd like to discuss with me over a brew or two, please send me some post over at hi [at] niftydigits.com. For more information about my projects, you can subscribe to email updates from me using the box below.