Archive for the ‘2010’ Category

SimmondsStewart blog

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Business view: SimmondsStewart turned 4 and decided to make a few changes to the web presence. In particular, they wanted a new blog to enable useful commentry and conversation in the technology and early stage company sector, and a better way of managing their site content.

Technical view: Light design refresh, installation of WordPress, redeployment of website, addition of blog, transfer of content, testing and URL cutover.

Fuel Efficiency Reports

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Business view: EECA wanted to monitor the success fuel labeling has had in reducing the impact of the vehicle fleet on the New Zealand economy, both in terms of total fuel cost and CO2 emissions.

Technical view: Consolidation and enhancement of the data to include key report parameters, draft and installation of report mechanism and inclusion in EECA’s existing admin facilities.

Flexible Accommodation Options

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Business view: Victoria Accommodation Services help arrange temporary accommodation for students newly arriving in Wellington. As they started to bring new buildings into operation, their administration system needed to cope with the different choices that were now available.  We made adjustments to make make the system a lot more flexible.

Technical view: Dependency analysis, adjustment and testing of newly flexible inputs to a custom-built .NET admin system over an SQL Server database. Included adjustment to system-generated email trails.