Simon Overell's
Stuff
Top Websites Movie
A simple application that downloads images of the most popular webpages according to their Alexa ranking and combines them into a video.
Maps
My PhD was in Geographic Information Retrieval. A significant part of my thesis involved generating maps to visualise my results. These maps tell the story of my PhD.
Digital modern art
Inspired by Damien Hirst's spot paintings, popular websites reduced to a series of dots.
xeyes for IE
This project is an implementation of xeyes in JavaScript and CSS3 exploiting a bug in Internet Explorer that leaks the mouse position beyond the browser window, even when the browser is not in focus. Click to launch.
TRIDE
TRIDE is a Teleo-Reactive Integrated Development Environment and was built as part of my Master's Project. It is a cross compilation IDE for the Lego Mindstorm robots written in Java, and was used as a teaching aid on ICL's 3rd year robotics course.
Portfolio CMS
Due to frustrations with bloat in other CMS applications (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc). I wrote my own on top of CakePHP, Prototype.js and 960.css. It powers this site. Fork it on Github.
Photo Soup
PhotoSoup is a photo word puzzle developed while I was on internship at Yahoo Research Barcelona.
Web Development
I've worked on websites, professionally and as a hobby, for the last decade. Click to read more...
140 Character Web App
Having been inspired by the 140 character webapp challenge, I've attempted my own...