Welcome

Submitted by admin on Thu, 27/01/2011 - 16:23

Fitsolve is the trading name of Paul Wilkin, freelance web developer based in Norwich, UK. I have been developing websites since 2007 and I am always looking to bring my experience to exciting new projects. I work hard and with genuine enthusiasm to get the job done.

You can see some of the sites I have created as a freelancer on this site. I have also worked as a contractor for http://www.theuniprogroup.com/

I was contracted to develop an enterprise-level system for a well-known brand.

I have also worked at the British Council www.britishcouncil.org on converting their websites to Drupal 7.

I build using Open Source technologies such as PHP and MySQL on Linux, and have extensively used the Zend Framework, jQuery, AJAX and Drupal.

Please get in touch at pwilkin@fitsolve.co.uk or via the contact form.

Doctrine 2 Entity Models

Submitted by admin on Thu, 16/05/2013 - 13:31

I use MySQL Workbench http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/ to model databases graphically and I find it a useful productivity tool.

However, these days I am increasingly using Doctrine 2 to provide transparent persistence of PHP entities within my systems. I need to describe my databases in terms of Doctrine entities and associations. I can do all that by hand, however this is not a pleasant prospect for large databases.

There is a tool that creates your Doctrine entities for you via the PHP command line.

Download it from: https://github.com/johmue/mysql-workbench-schema-exporter

I'll be trying it out for size over the next few days!

Portfolio

Classical Music Magazine

Submitted by admin on Tue, 15/03/2011 - 16:31

An online magazine with full content management was the requirement. Drupal 6 was the answer! I provided customised modules to link with Freebase to enable the downloading of data and the automatic construction of nodes for famous composers.

Classical Music Magazine Screenshot

Technologies: 
PHP
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery
Drupal 6

Aspects Photography

Submitted by admin on Tue, 15/03/2011 - 12:05

Creating a website that shows off a photographers' work. It needed to look stylish without diverting too much attention from the photos!

I created the website with jQuery to display the galleries and Drupal to allow the photographer to manage the content themselves.

Aspects Screenshot

Technologies: 
PHP
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery
Drupal 6

Norwich Jujitsu Club

Submitted by admin on Tue, 15/03/2011 - 13:27

A website to promote a sports club with some action shots. They wanted the ability to maintain their own blog and an interactive tutorial.

I also provided integration with the Google Maps API so that people could find their way to the venue with driving directions.

Norwich Jujitsu Club

Technologies: 
PHP
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery