Hello!

I'm a web developer working at BBC R&D.

I'm available for freelance projects too.

To get in touch, email hello at andrewnicolaou.co.uk.

Find me on GitHub, Flickr, Last.fm, Pinboard & Twitter.

Recent posts

• Playful 2011

  Mon 28 Nov 2011

  Playful is a small one-day conference about how game design can affect all forms of media. The theme this year was "the shape of things to come" and each of the speakers put their own slant on this broad topic.

Recent projects

• BBC Weather v4

  

  Javascript, PHP, HTML5, CSS3

  Front-end lead on the new BBC Weather site. A major redesign of one of the UK's leading weather websites.

  View
  Over 1 year ago

• BBC Weather Tide Graphs

  

  Javascript, SVG, Raphael

  Lovely client-side SVG rendered graphs of tides.

  View a graph
  Over 2 years ago

• HTTP Status

  

  Ruby, Heroku, Sinatra, open source

  What do all those HTTP status codes mean?

  View site
  Over 2 years ago

• BBC Weather Maps

  

  Javascript, PHP, Open Layers

  New user-centered, time-based forecast maps.

  View the map
  Almost 3 years ago

• My BBC Location

  

  Javascript, standards, API integration

  Enabling BBC News and Weather users to set a shared location setting.

  BBC News BBC Weather
  Almost 3 years ago

• FirePHP for Chrome

  Javascript, Google Chrome, open source

  Port of the Firefox FirePHP logging add-on as a Chrome extension.

  View the code
  About 3 years ago

• Wilkinson King Architects

  

  HTML, CSS, Javascript, Dojo, Ruby

  Built a standards-based website with UI flourishes for this architect's practice.

  View the site
  About 3 years ago

• BBC Weather refresh

  

  HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP

  Iterate and improve the design and functionality of one of the UK most popular Weather sites.

  View the site
  Over 3 years ago

• UK military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq

  

  Flash, Perl, Template Toolkit

  Visualising all UK military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  View the map
  About 4 years ago

• Mapping the UK's teen murder toll

  

  Flash, Perl, Template Toolkit, Modest Maps

  Interactive charts, map and table visualising all the UK teen homicides and allowing exploration of the data.

  View the map
  About 4 years ago

• US Election mini poll tracker

  

  Flash

  Contextual dynamic chart of polling data in the run-up to the 2008 US presidential election.

  View polltracker
  Over 4 years ago

• Olympic and Paralympic Parade live map

  

  Flash, Perl, Modest Maps

  A map tracking the Olympic parade route: updated live with geo-located Twitter and Flickr content.

  View the map
  Over 4 years ago