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:

Statistical Analysis

Business Intelligence

Financial Information Extraction

Credit Card Payment

Web Data Collection

Internet Search

Asset Risk Management

Cryptocurrencies

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

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.

Fix issues with native Java Android app and redeploy to Google Play

System: "SuperGraph" Native Android App

Client: John Adams Ltd.

Technologies: Java, Android, XML

Problem: The app had been removed from the Google Play Store due to a reported stability issue. There were also problems with accessibility of some buttons on smaller screens.

Solution: Several minor fixes were implemented including build parameter and file format updates, and layouts were corrected to make missing buttons visible on smaller screens. Updates were tested on multiple emulators using Android Studio. The app was successfully redeployed to the Google Play Store, and a report produced detailing the changes.

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Assembler's Factory Floor Time-Tracking App

System: Assembler's Factory Floor Time-Tracking App

Client: Whippendell Marine

Technologies: Raku, CRO, Template::Nest, jQuery, CSS, MySQL

Problem: Create an application that interfaces with the company's existing Teamwork-based project management system and enables assemblers to log time spent on jobs - with design according to client spec.

Solution: A set of "Element" modules were created in Raku which inherited from a base module responsible for making calls to the Teamwork API. Syncing of local application data was accomplished with an independent daemon looping over and caching necessary user and project information in a MySQL database. Server-side rendering created dynamic content with Template::Nest, and the front end assembled HTML chunks delivered from the backend with jQuery. The system was designed to be deployed to Android-based tablet as a PWA app.