My name is Ben Dodson and I'm a PHP Developer… well, Development Manager - I develop when I have time! Dodson Labs is my little playground on the internet where I like to test code and generally add any personal projects that I'm toying around with. If you are looking for such things as my blog, cv, portfolio, how to get in touch, or just want to know a little bit more about me, then you should go to bendodson.com
The microsites below are all mini projects I'm currently playing with - Some of them are proper sites that have a purpose whereas others are just test areas for me to get to grips with something new. They should automatically highlight if they have been worked on in the past 24 hours - this means that they might act sporadically or not at all… I might be working on them right now! If you want to ask any questions about any project or have suggestions, etc, then please do contact me.
A project I worked on at mashed08, the Flickr Montage Maker builds a photo montage (or collage). Simply enter a tag and it will take a random photo from flickr based on that tag and build it as a photo montage with hundreds (3600 to be precise) of smaller images that relate to that tag. E.g. enter "cat", and you will get a photo of a cat made up of little pictures of cats. Try out the montage maker…
I have long been sick of OpenID providers - the purpose of OpenID is to have a de-centralised system where you are not tied down to a particular provider. That's why I run my own OpenID server with all of my credentials stored right where I can manage them! Do you want to do the same? You can now with phpMyOpenID; a basic installation script for phpMyID. Set up your own OpenID server…