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Monthly Archives: October 2009

ESS and Surprised MySQL developers

I had a conference call with a client, one of their biggest customers and the customers’ developers the other day. Both the customer and my client are having new systems written (my client in FileMaker, my client’s customer in MySQL and, i guess, HTML) and they are both keen on integrating stock figures.

Digital Pen and Paper Technology

I have been doing quite a bit of work with smart pens recently so I thought I would drop in a quick primer on the technology.

SQL Joins

When writing a PHP based site – developers often also have to integrate with a database (otherwise the site tends not to be very exciting!) and a popular technology for this is a flavour of SQL. Rather than go through the basics of database queries using SQL (which if enough people ask me for –…

How to avoid script triggers ruining your day

Script triggers are your best friend and worst enemy. They are great when they trigger as required but not always so good when you don’t want the scripts to run.

We know we’re good… Did we tell anyone else though?

I need to start by saying sorry for not blogging in ages! We’ve been very busy (which can only be a good thing!)