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…
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…
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;…
The UK government has recently identified a need for a broader range of IT skills and greater technical knowledge to be taught in schools, starting at an earlier age, including the concepts of computer programming or coding. The report commissioned by the government identified a skills shortage and lack of teaching in this area. The…
Since we started trading as a software development company way back in 1996, we have found through experience that the key to a successful project lies not in a detailed and carefully crafted specification and design document, but instead in a strong iterative approach to development which closely involves the client at every stage and…
Client / server solutions Traditionally we have developed bespoke software for the Microsoft Windows platform. The client server model meant installing a bespoke database on an on-site server, which was then networked to Windows client desktop computers which in turn had our bespoke software installed on each machine. This worked well as it allowed businesses to organise…
