For me personally, the thing I’m most proud of developing is actually a piece of software that never made it to commercial market. It was called Flux and at the time (1994/95) was something totally new. I originally built the code just as a demo, but then we realized we had something really special and decided to build out a full application. Flux was the forerunner to iTunes Visualizer – it analyzed, in real-time, a PCM audio stream coming off a regular music CD while it was playing, broke it down into four frequency groups and then displayed visual effects to the music. The code was able to detect the beat based on the changes in the wafeform data calculating the distances between peaks, and could display different colors based on whether or not sounds were in the low, mid or high ranges. I even built a 3D engine into it that displayed 3D objects moving and rotating to the music and which would morph into new shapes. All of this, running on a 486 66Mhz PC running Windows 3.1! Most of it was programmed in C++ with a bit of assembler for the code that grabbed the audio stream. The app was later ported onto the Mac and even turned up as a Sega Mega Drive cartridge, but the company I developed it for went under and it was lost in the ether. I do still have the original source code on an old 3 1/2″ floppy in my archives.

I wanted to come up with a unique way of raising funds for @dogstrust and came up with the idea of giving up my Saturdays to work on any job, whether that be design or cooking for a £99 donation.

The initial response has been overwhelmingly positive and hopefully the site will help me raise a lot of money.

@Lee – Glad you could get involved.

@Frank – Thanks, I’m always looking to get more people involved in the posts. It was great to hear from such a varied amount of people.

Great work guys!