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Left-Brain vs Right-Brain or “Why are designers not good at business?”

One of the skills we don’t have in house here at KashFlow Towers is design skills. There’s not a proficient Photoshopper amongst us. So we’ve always had to outsource. I’m yet to find a design firm or individual designer that provides good work, good pricing and good service. Someone we can work with on an ongoing basis for things like web design, print advert design, web banners, etc. Read more »

What do Jimmy Carr and Twitter have in Common?

I remember Jimmy Carr being interviewed once about his style of stand-up comedy. He said that he looks at a joke and trims off all the fat – getting it down to as few words as possible. And it’s true. I watched him on Live at the Apollo the other day. There’s no way you could have told the jokes in any fewer words. Read more »

Do Believe the Hype

I’m just wading through my mass of Google alerts and I found a really great article on ZD Net by Cath Everett called Five cloud computing myths exploded. Read more »

Can you make a better burger than McDonalds?

>In a recent blog post over on Cloud Ave, Ben Kepes quoted a “friendly SaaS vendor CEO who shall remain anonymous” as having said the following:

The app is to SaaS what the hamburger is to Macdonalds – people forget that. The app is a small part. To go global the BUSINESS MODEL and INFRASTRUCTURE and SYSTEMS need to scale… The actual application is the least of your worries. That’s why we have an average product but profit and high revenue wheras some slick apps out there have no money in the bank.

An insight well worth re-visiting every now and then. Read more »

Tweet, tweet

Are you sick of hearing about Twitter yet? If not, you soon will be.

I’m hearing more and more about it and I suspect it’ll be the Next Big Thing in the social networking space.

If you’re not familiar with it, let me try to explain: Read more »

Debugging SQL in C#

If you write C# code, then you’ve probably felt the frustration of trying to debug a SQL Command. Especially as it has lots of parameters. There doesn’t seem to be any native way of getting out an exact SQL command for you to execute yourself in SQL Management Studio. Read more »

Consuming a .Net SOAP Webservice from Classic ASP (VBScript)

We had a meeting today with some great guys with an even greater service that we’re going to be integrating with our online accounting software.
Their service is exposed as a .Net SOAP webservice. Now you’d think that wouldn’t be a problem for us as our own accounting API uses the same technology. Well, you’d be wrong. Our core product is still coded in classic ASP / VBScript. Read more »

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