As part of a recent project for BRAMM, the British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons, we were required to provide a radius based geographical search feature. The client wanted users to be able to search for memorial masons within a specified distance of their chosen location, the location being any UK town or Postcode. While…
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Sorry we’ve been quiet but we’ve been tucked away bringing a number of larger projects to completion. Firstly there’s a new bespoke software system for Manchester based Lowry Capital, who provide funding to property developers and investors. We’ve written a brief case study on this project, please take a look. Secondly there’s a sizeable web…
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Are you using Gmail from Google to send emails using your company domain name? We find many do as it’s a free alternative to Microsoft’s Outlook 365 service. If so, do you have it set up correctly? It’s well worth checking everything is in order as Google recently started showing warning messages to recipients stating…
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Some good news… for us… as bespoke software developers of web based software systems. Browser compatibly issues have long since been an active issue ever since we starting developing software solutions for the web. Whilst we endeavour to develop our bespoke software solutions to adhere to a set of web standards, we occasionally come across…
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As a business, due to the current health crisis caused by the Covid-19 virus, we have already moved to working from home. During this period, we continue to support our clients remotely for those that need it rather than going out to client premises. We are fortunate insofar as this industry gives us all the…
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We’ve heard quite a lot about the little Raspberry Pi palm sized computer in recent years, and with the recent significant hardware improvements present on the new Raspberry Pi 4 we thought we’d take a look to see if it was useful to us or our customers as a thin/browser client for accessing web based…
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We recently had cause to celebrate the longevity of some of our early bespoke software development projects. One of our long standing clients asked us to install the bespoke Windows software we originally wrote for them back in 2001 onto their shiny new Windows 10 64-bit desktop machines, and we were happy to oblige. The…
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If you have a website or online software system you’ve probably heard your developer mention these acronyms, HTTP, SSL and HTTPS. Let’s start off with the basics… When you visit a website you may have noticed that the web browser prepends http:// to the web address, for example, https://www.cbssolutions.co.uk. HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol,…
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Every so often we are asked to write bespoke software which just begs to have real-time updates and popup notifications, in some solutions it’s a must have requirement and in others it’s a nice to have feature. So, what do we mean by a real-time update and popup notification? Consider the following two scenarios: You…
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You may have heard of the terms REST or RESTful when talking to software developers but what does it actually mean? REST stands for ‘representational state transfer’, it’s a methodology for building software for the web and was first defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding. Technically speaking, it is a way of providing interoperability between…
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