Company: Structure, Philosophy, Team

At Virtual Blue we have a long history of providing

innovative solutions

to challenging problems

and have taken them

fromvision

to reality

through the many

software systems

we have created for clients:

Business Intelligence

Financial Information Extraction

Cryptocurrencies

Credit Card Payment

Internet Search

Web Data Collection

Statistical Analysis

Asset Risk Management

We have a

strong commitment

to client confidentiality

but check out our demo software:

Amazon Review Search

Search Amazon reviews using our demo search engine

Coinetize Micropayments

Monetize your web resources using our demo bitcoin-based micropayments platform

Request Delay Proxy

A development tool for testing timeouts of requests to external services

JSON to SQL Converter

Convert arbitrary JSON to SQL or a multisheet Excel workbook

Three.js Rotation Controller

A controller for Three.js which enables rotation of individual objects

TaskPipe Scraping Framework

A home grown framework for building web scrapers and crawlers

Recent Projects

London Congestion Charge Notification App

System: iOS and Android app to provide alerts when entering the London Congestion Zone

Client: Outbound BPO Ltd

Technologies: Rust, Javascript, Cordova

Problem: Drivers in London may find it difficult to keep track of and avoid the London Congestion Zone boundary

Solution: The system takes advantage of an Open Street Maps tiling server and Cordova's Geolocation Plugin to track the user's location in London. A push notification is sent when user approaches the Congestion Zone boundary.

Distributed web automation system for public sector ecommerce

System: Distributed web-automation application simplifying tasks on a public sector ecommerce portal

Client: MePATool

Technologies: Perl, Javascript, Mojolicious, Hypnotoad, SQL

Problem: The workflow required for public sector ecommerce in a particular jurisdiction can slow down business.

Solution: 7 subsystems have been created and are maintained by Virtual Blue, including client executables, API, Web Admin and web-automation processes. Multithreaded headless Chrome instances are controlled via a custom process management system. Rendering browsers tend to be memory hungry which is one reason the system is distributed across several servers, in order to cope with traffic spikes. Recently very low error rates have been achieved.

Truck Loading Animation Web Application

System: Web application to display an interactive 3D animation of a truck loading a specified shipment

Client: Private

Technologies: .NET core, C#, Blender, Three.js, SQL

Problem: Create a web application which loads details of a user-specified shipment from a database, and depicts that shipment loading in a user-interactive animation.

Solution: This project integrates a number of separate areas of software engineering, including web development, 3D modelling and dynamic animation. The truck trailer with backgrounds and skybox were modelled in Blender, together with the Cargo bay and truck door opening animations - and these were imported into Three.js. Camera zoom and rotation were enabled using OrbitControls.js. The cargo box loading animation was created in Three.js directly using suitable vector mathematics, and the system mounted in a .NET core based framework. Specification of the shipment to load is provided by the user via a web form.