RosaCode Software

Hi! I'm Matt, I create websites and other software on a charitable basis, for good causes.

About

Me

I'm Matt, I live in South Norfolk near Norwich, and I have a programming career which I love. Like many software developers, I code in my free time as well, because it's fun, to learn new skills, and to stay up-to-date with technologies that I'm not currently using at work. I like to put that effort into helping good causes where I can.

RosaCode

RosaCode is a brand under which I create websites and other software as a volunteer. When I code in my free time, I want to create useful things for good causes who cannot afford to hire developers.

Good Causes

Are you an organisation like these and are helping your community? I'd like to help you.

Charities

Schools and Research

Community Groups

Local Businesses

Can I Help?

Do you need a website for a project?

Doing something repetitive, costly, or time-consuming? We could get your computer to do it instead.

Contact Me!

Projects

A selection of previous projects I've worked on.

Veterans and the Media

Creation and hosting of veteransandthemedia.com

for a university research project.

RosaCode created and hosted a website for the Veterans and the Media research project at the University of East Anglia . The project didn't have the required skills internally, and there was no funding available for hiring developers. Initially they put together a free wordpress site, but it was hard to get it looking right.

I knew the lead researcher and I thought we could do better, so I mocked something up quickly for them, it looked better, and we went from there.

West Wight Men In Sheds

Creation of a new website for the West Wight Men In Sheds

charity on the Isle of Wight.

RosaCode developed a new website from scratch for a Men's Shed project located on the Isle of Wight. I was not going to host this one, so we wanted to make it easy for the project owners to add content themselves. We coded the website so that files and text can just be added to a folder on their webserver, and the pages dynamically update from that folder (see the news, projects, and sponsors pages).

During this project I actually ended up teaching some programming tools to the website owner, so that they could make minor changes themselves, without relying on me to be available.

Interview Transcription

Automated transcription of interviews from the Veterans History Project for a university research project

Good transcription is expensive, but sometimes you just need something that's good enough.

I used Amazon's transcription service to very cheaply transcribe of some of the veterans history project interviews for a University of East Anglia research project. Transcribing 14 interviews (~13 hours total) cost me only about £17. The output file format is not very human-readable, so I also wrote a small script which post-processed the output into a readable format for the researchers.

Alpington and Yelverton Community Website

Development of a new community website

for the South Norfolk villages of Alpington and Yelverton.

alpington and yelverton community website

I developed and currently run the WordPress community website for a village in South Norfolk, on behalf of the Parish Council. This includes constructing blog posts from community news, subsequent social media promotion of each one, and ongoing creation of webpage content promoting various aspects of the village.

I designed and drew the website's icon from scratch (see it best on the site's twitter account), and the selection of content has been chosen and edited in accordance with the views of all the relevant stakeholders from the village.