Author Archives: Sean

About Sean

A self motivated highly experienced software developer and IT professional. Extremely technical, thorough and with excellent problem solving skills. Able to develop on a wide variety of systems and integrate heterogeneous platforms together. A proven track record of project successes from conception through to delivery. In depth knowledge acquired through exposure to a wide variety of technologies.

bookmycarpetclean.com – Case Study Introduction

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Hunts Cleaning Ltd. is an established family run business based in Oxfordshire specialising in providing carpet & upholstery cleaning services.

Jonathan and Kirsty Hunt decided to expand their business by offering a carpet cleaning franchise, bookmycarpetclean.com and we were approached by Jon and asked if we could help make this work by providing some custom software development.

The customer was going to have a Joomla web site built for him, but he needed extra functionality:

  • postcode lookup to enable end users to link up with the operative covering their area
  • a simple to use quotation builder offering a wide range of cleaning services
  • some ecommerce for taking deposits from customers
  • allowing the customer to choose his appointment date and time
  • automatically place appointments into the operative’s own calendar

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I have never had to change an MTU before

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If you don’t know what an MTU is, it’s probably best to stop reading now…

On what was a normal build and commission of a cloud Linux server for a customer everything was working fine except when it came to downloading via FTP.  As this server was required to synchronise files with two others via FTP this was a problem.

Initially I put it down to a firewall or permissions issue but the more I dug into it the more I realised something else was afoot. Continue reading →

Z88 OZ 4.2 Print bug

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After experimenting with various vintage devices for mobile blogging, I developed a Windows app that allowed these devices to ‘print’ directly into a Windows application like Wordpad for example.

This was working fine until, I tried it with a Z88 using a later version of it’s operating system (OZ 4.2). It seems when you print it is incapable of printing a space. Continue reading →