March 7th, 2010 → 9:55 am @ Stuart
Optima has been selected to manage all technology resources for a new start-up, SmartInsights.com – a digital marketing portal.
SmartInsights was created by Dr. Dave Chaffey, a leading author, consultant and trainer specialising in E-commerce and E-marketing education and guidance.
Optima’s work involves the management of all IT resource, creation and management of a heavy customised WordPress [...]
October 30th, 2009 → 11:07 am @ Stuart
When I was setting up my latest virtual server (courtesy of the ever fantastic VPS.net cloud), I wanted to come up with a simple hourly backup policy for the mySQL databases that reside on the machine. Every hour, I wanted to dump the databases, tar/zip them up in a single archive and email it with [...]
July 28th, 2009 → 10:34 am @ Stuart
Since setting up as a self employed Internet Consultant to assist companies in the Leeds, UK area and beyond I needed to arrange myself a hosting environment, to host this site and any potential client sites that require hosting to go along with web design, web development, web marketing and the other services that I [...]
July 21st, 2009 → 9:30 am @ Stuart
Recently a story hit the news of a breach of security at Twitter – a hacker going by the name of ‘Hacker Croll’ managed to gain access to the google mail account of a Twitter employee and from there into a lot of other online accounts, gaining accessing to hundreds of confidential company documents.
Now that [...]
July 14th, 2009 → 5:38 pm @ Stuart
I’ve been using Wordpress a lot recently in various projects, and as I became increasingly familiar with it started to wonder whether or not it’s a candidate for being used as a full CMS for light weight sites.
As it turns out, many people have had the same thoughts – there’s a whole load of resources [...]
July 8th, 2009 → 9:04 am @ Stuart
Up until November last year I worked for a company called SkillsTrak. During my time there I designed, developed and managed an on-demand Skills Assessment platform called SkillsTrak.
The system is developed in PHP and runs on a mySQL database, and allows clients to create custom, tiered assessments to run on their staff. They can then [...]
