Past Projects

Arevco Lighting

The current version of www.arevco.ca was created for Arevco Lighting in 2004.

It displays over 140 products in its online catalog. Features include user-resizable images, related products, a shopping cart and a number of pages of information for customers.

A new version of the site is under construction that will allow Arevco's employees to expand its catalog to hundreds of items and update product information even more easily.

Video Capture with Closed Caption Searching

A combination of hardware MPEG4 video compression and custom software was used to build a system that allows clips to be taken from live television based on key words in closed caption text. The system records multiple channels simultaneously and saves video clips and a log of the captions that matched the search criteria for later viewing.

excess.org - Open Source Project Weblog

excess.org hosts a number of active open source projects and now features a “blog”-like interface with tags and RSS feeds. Django allows much of the source code from genericconsulting.ca to be shared with excess.org, reducing development time and maintenance of both sites.

Ottawa Canada Linux User's Group

The OCLUG web site has been migrated from a legacy PHP-based system to a new Django-based site. This site manages announcements, events, speakers and locations in a way that makes it much easier for volunteers to manage. It also now has an RSS feed for upcoming events.

There are a number of small new applications planned for this site including voting on tutorial topics and a system that will allow speakers to more easily update their biographies and talk descriptions.