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Work From Home

Web-based systems, remote working, and business resilience

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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March 25, 2020Software DevelopmentBy Robert Tokeley

Using bespoke web-based software from a Raspberry Pi

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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February 5, 2020IT Support, Software DevelopmentBy Robert Tokeley

Windows Software

Software longevity, support commitment, and web-based technology solutions

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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April 23, 2019IT Support, Software DevelopmentBy Robert Tokeley

Online Security

HTTP, SSL, HTTPS, let’s talk acronyms and why you need one.

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, http://www.cbssolutions.co.uk. HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol,…

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August 30, 2018Software DevelopmentBy Richard Tokeley

Real-Time Updates & Popup Notifications

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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May 31, 2018Software DevelopmentBy Richard Tokeley

RESTful

The RESTful Approach to Software Development

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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January 23, 2018Software DevelopmentBy Richard Tokeley

Bespoke Calendar

Do you need a bespoke calendar in your cloud software solution?

We have noticed a recent trend in customers having a need for a bespoke calendar/diary/scheduling element to their cloud based software solutions. We have an excellent calendar component fit for purpose which we can plug in and customise for different business needs. Live Demo We can tailor the feature set to match your exact requirements…

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March 10, 2017Software DevelopmentBy Richard Tokeley

Slack

Integrating Slack

You may have heard of Slack but if you haven’t, Slack promotes itself as an online messaging application for teams. Our development team use it to communicate with each other on a daily basis and it’s very useful. I won’t go in to the details here as the Slack website does a great job of that;…

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November 10, 2016Software DevelopmentBy Richard Tokeley

Microsoft SQL Server

Reaching your SQL Server Express database capacity with picture or document storage?

Microsoft SQL Server Express is Microsoft’s entry level database server solution. It is available free of charge and as such has been widely adopted within many small to medium sized businesses. Microsoft have judged that offering a free solution will get their product in to the market with many users of the Express version inevitably…

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July 19, 2016IT Support, Software DevelopmentBy Robert Tokeley

Cloud services – what’s it all about?

Cloud services are massively gaining in popularity – but what are they and how might they be useful to your business? Essentially a cloud service is any IT service which is supplied remotely through the internet. These fall broadly into three categories: 1) Software that you access over the internet, primarily from a web browser,…

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June 14, 2016IT Support, Software DevelopmentBy Robert Tokeley
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