Christopher Ottley

Work (the kind I get paid for) carried me far and away from my family for 5 weeks recently. It was supposed to be maximum 3, but that’s another story. I was especially

A while ago I bought a Kindle Fire 8 Kids edition for my daughter and of course it had Alexa bundled in. While the Kindle Freetime didn’t really work outside of the US

Quindecim. A game idea I have for my Alexa-powered smart speakers. It’s essentially a number matching and memory game with a maximum of fifteen numbers. The aim of the game is to descramble

With all the Alexa work I have planned, I decided to create a project called Argyle, named from Tobago’s largest waterfall. I had looked at Laravel and Phalcon but I got the white-screen-of-nothing

Oracle. Love it or hate it, it’s all over the place and the basis of many enterprise solutions. While there may be commerical system monitoring and analysis solutions, sometimes (due to cost, speed

The nice thing about having lots of smart plugs and bulbs connected to Alexa is the convenience of yelling at your devices to turn on and off. While you can schedule devices to

There are certain apps I use every day, and, not surprisingly, most of them are from google. While google has its google maps and navigation software, from my experience Waze is the better

One day, maybe, far into the future, tech giants would work together to provide the best set of services for everyone. Or maybe we’ll have to hack together that future ourselves. Between Google

Food. When you’re hungry, there’s nothing like it, but when you’re not you want to save it for later. Given how many people in the world don’t know where their next meal is

I’ve tricked out the house with Alexa compatible gadgets, a bunch of plugs, a whole set of bulbs and three echo dots in three different rooms. I was watching The First and there

I’ve had a number of websites over the years in one form or the other. Usually the websites were project websites that happened to have a small about section where I wrote something

For Moruga I am the sole developer. Most software that provides some sort of input or output process can generate ASCII text files. Sometimes the text files are in a format that is

For softwaredownloadcatalog I am the sole developer. In my day to day work I use quite a bit of software. The software is delivered in many different forms, from MSI installers, to executables

For spsimplefileupload I am the sole developer. Once upon a time I needed to generate an Excel report out of another system and make it available to certain people. Automating the creation of

For Talparo I am the unofficial MSI packager. MapProxy is an open source geospatial data proxy. While it works on Windows and Linux, setting it up as a service on Windows takes some

For BunnyX I am the creator, software architect and the sole developer. BunnyX is designed to facilitate web app integration from legacy web apps to provide a more modern API without code changes.

For MAF I am the creator and initially the sole developer. Now MAF is maintained by Paolo Amadini. I created the Mozilla Archive Format extension while I was doing research for my Master’s

Hey! Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. I’m glad you can stop by :) So, I’m getting older and I can’t remember half the stuff I’d like to do nowadays. This