As a rule, a lot of people don’t like change. They get comfortable with the way things are and don’t want it to change. That’s ok. I understand that, I’ve been guilty of that feeling more than once. You get your life how you like it and don’t want anything to shake the delicate balance you’ve built up. But if you’re honest, it’s normally some huge and often unexpected or unwanted changes that can bring the best things in life. This can also apply to business.
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Steve Payne Business, Life
Re-Write or Correct…
The age old question when you are asked to take over developing an existing solution for a client who was un-happy with the state of the solution.
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Simon Ward Business, Linear Blue
Small Businesses have done a better job at surviving the recession, than most would think. According to a recent study by Kingston University, 48% of small businesses have maintained or increased their profitability in the past year.
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Rita ONeill Business, Life, Linear Blue
I have been using Google Analytics frequently and have become impressed with the level of detail their features offer. The graph is one of my favourite tools, which helps to detect a trend with the data. The advanced segments feature is impressive, allowing you to select up to four segments, such as, new visitors, paid search traffic or non-paid search traffic, which filters through to the graph.
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Rita ONeill Business, Linear Blue, SEO, Web
As the latest person to join Linear Blue I should probably introduce myself to everyone and make a start on my first blog entry here.
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Ian Jempson FileMaker, Linear Blue
I am continuing to work on an ESS integration project and one of the biggest issues is speed when dealing with large record sets from MySQL.
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Damian Kelly Database, FileMaker, Web ESS, MySQL, ODBC
It would be rude not to introduce myself and start blogging! I will start by telling you a little bit about myself first.
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Rita ONeill Business, Life, Linear Blue FileMaker, linear blue, marketing, new starter
Automated server based scripts for Importing or Exporting are a great way of moving time consuming jobs away from users. Whether it is exporting a report from a complex find or generating records overnight to save the users time during the day, there are two very important things to remember.
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Simon Ward Database, FileMaker, Linear Blue
The first thing you will want to do is download the FPDF class files from http://www.fpdf.org/ – this site is also an excellent resource for the FPDF class, if you get stuck then a look through the manual or frequently asked questions will help out no end.
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Rob Basden Web FPDF, PDF, PHP
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.
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Damian Kelly Database, FileMaker, Web DSN, ESS, FileMaker, MySQL, ODBC
