How often do you get time to think? I mean think properly. As company directors we are supposed to be strategists. However we often find ourselves as firefighters. I work with a number of companies as a freelance technical director. This has two major benefits: It allows my clients to have the benefit of a [...]

eCommerce and ePos system New client based in the North East, their Web Developer has been working for 9 months on a new shopping cart / eCommerce website and an ePos system for the shop that links to the website. Their total current online and shop sales total £1.2m. Their existing website is dire and the [...]

Last friday I was contacted by a business in Glasgow, they have an eCommerce business. The products are high value and obviously they get orders through the website and associated technologies. Their problem is that their web developer has put up his prices. I asked if the website worked and they said it did, so [...]

For those like me who have had to install Trusteer Rapport as part of their internet banking, be aware of this problem. I have for the last 10 hours been trying to solve a problem with a software project I am working on in Visual Studio 2010. As of Monday morning it would not work [...]

We want to give technology device based on real knowledge and experience, so we have taken delivery of a new iMAC and the iPhone development toolkits. This will allow us to better advise our clients on approapriate technologies and also the potential cost implications. Our first couple of Apps have been relatively straight forward but [...]

We now have our first real customer trial!  www.condotasks.com is being trialed by a condominium management company based in Tampa, Florida. This is our third installation. The first two have been for condominiums that have been working with us to develop the product and have helped us both debug the system and highlight valuable enhancements [...]

I have spent the last day in mortal combat with the open source editor FCKeditor and its newer CKeditor. These are open source editors, whose major benefit it cost. The editor is generally very good. However as with many open source products the upside of zero cost has a downside of zero support. We have [...]

Building a Blackberry app to allow mobile workers to build web content that is up to date and relevant.

We are starting to import the inital data into the Online Press Release distribution we have been working on for the last few months. This software development allows in house journalists to create press releases. The journalists themselves can then use the back office functions to check and distribute the press releases using an automated [...]

Our new property management website has been passed today to our client for Beta testing. The web application allows management boards to plan maintenance schedules for their property. Additionally property owners can raise tasks for approval and emergency tasks. Emergency tasks are notified to the maintenance staff using SMS messages. The system comprises an ASP.Net [...]