Theatre Trips Kent has now been launched. The site offers coach travel and tickets to great London shows.  The initial version had bookings via telephone or in the Theatre Trips Kent office, the second release, within the next month, will allow for bookings online.

The site is built in Dot Net Nuke 6.1.2 with a custom content slider control and calendar event booking system.

In just over a month www.photolinedrawing.com has gained another 500 users. Now the system is stable we have reduced the free credits which has seen a dramatic increase in paying customers.

If you have any photos or images that you want to convert to line drawings, try LICA at www.photolinedrawing.com.

We have recently re-launched the Uniquely British Ltd website.  It now supports any screen width and maximises all of the possible space.  This is in addition to a new logo.

This is in time for the sale of 25 K6 British Red Telephone Boxes.

The home page with client configurable text via the CMS.

The category page

And the item page

www.photolinedrawing.com has reached 2000 users.  Lica allows you to upload photos for conversion to line drawings.

We’re planning some algorithm updates for 2012 to improve the quality and speed to completion.

Sign up now to get your free test credits.

Bicycle Links is a Norwich based Community Interest Company. We’ve recently designed them their logo.

Working on a new site, www.cleancuttree.co.uk

Beta 1 of the Theatre Trips Kent Web site is now online.  They offer great deals on coach travel and tickets to London shows with pickup points all across Kent.

The first version has social media from Facebook integrated and a basic use of the DNN calendar for event management.

There is also a custom module for recommending the site to friends when registering for the mailing list.

The system is running on Dot Net Nuke 6.1.1.

The next release will include a custom DNN Skin and new logo.

Theatre Trips Kent:

Currently we are running regular trips to great London shows. We organise the theatre tickets and coach transport there and back. Top price theatre seats are our normal purchase to ensure the best theatre experience.

Contact us at info@theatretripskent.co.uk to find out more or register to join our mailing list.

We’ve been working on a new DNN 6 portal for the Norfolk Young Professionals Group.

The about us page uses a custom module that displays the photo and bio of any users who are in the Committee Security group.

The events page uses a custom theme on the DNN events calendar module.

John has also designed them a great new logo to go with the site.

We’ve recently been working on converting a JPG logo to Illustrator format for a client to be able to use the logo on new stationary and equipment.

The original JPG:

A JPG of the Illustrator file:

The tracing of the notes was time consuming..

We're currently working on a new project http://www.bicyclelinks.org.uk/. Its going to be a great use of the basic not net nuke 6 portal.  Watch this space for more info

One of our current works in process is an eCommerce and Content Management System for .Net.

Our biggest customer using this system is Uniquely British Limited.

The site features a layout and graphics design work completed by us.

The core eCommerce and Content Management System offers:

• eCommerce
• Paypal and Google checkout integration
• Page Management

We are please to announce the launch of the web site for Dan Savage 121 Fitness.  The site is fully content managed and based on the Dot Net Nuke platform.

Dan Savage 121 Fitness offers a Kent based, friendly, fully qualified, mobile personal training service.

We’ve recently finished moving the Canterbury Gold Duke of Edinburgh web site to a fully content managed Dot Net Nuke environment.  Taking their existing design ideas we have made their content fully accessible to all new and existing members.

We're pleased to announce that Beta 1 of our showcase for LICA has gone live at http://www.photolinedrawing.com

Shore Tech Systems has sponsored two prizes at the 2010 University of East Anglia School of Computing Sciences Prize Giving.

The prizes went to Thomas Etherington, a BIS Year 2 student and David Greenwood a foundation year student who averaged over 85% is his first year.

Congratulations to them both and we wish them well in all of their future studies at UEA.

University of East Anglia Computing Sciences Programming Competition 2009

December 05 2009

Sponsored by Shore Tech Systems LLP

The winning team comprising of Andrei Popescu, Matthew Sladen, Kegan Dougal and Jennifer Chapman with John Healy, Ross Buggins and Prof Vic Rayward Smith. THe team They share the £700 prize money.

http://www.uea.ac.uk/cmp/events-news/news/2008-9/programmingWinners

Best Ale Trails (http://www.bestaletrails.co.uk/) has gone live.

Currently with avalibility to map between pubs accross the whole of Norfolk.

Our interactive mapping system lets you draw and boundary or approximate route on the map and then shows you all the pubs in that area

• To begin, place your starting marker on the map by right clicking where you want it to be

• Add more points to your boundary or line

• Complete an area by clicking on your first point and your boundary is displayed

• Or, create a line by clicking on your last point, and the automatic boundary will be created for you

• You can even create a route by entering your start and end postcodes

• Make walking pub trails by selecting the walking option

• Find the most visited pubs in your area and which pubs are rated the highest

• Login to rate the best pubs and keep a record of the pubs you have visited

• Find and plan routes to pubs within East Anglia.

• Share your pub ale trail route with friends and rate your experiences to help others.

SQL 2008 has brought us many great new features: integration with LINQ, the Entity Framework and Entity Data Model, the much needed DateTime2, but my top favourite is the spatial data support with the arrival of the Geography and Geometry data types.

Spatial information can bring a whole new dimension to an applications and how we think about that location data.  Up until now dealing with true spatial data has been something only for the GIS (Geography Information System) specialists, but now its sitting there ready for all of us to use.  The big bonus with the SQL 2008 spatial data types is the fact that they utilise the ability of the SQL engine to handle .NET CLR datatypes.  This means that the SQL spatial data types can not only be used in T-SQL queries, but they also neatly fit directly into our .NET code!

In this post I'm going to look at using the spatial data types in these two different scenarios and compare how they fight it out in terms of performance.  The OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) define a number of standard meothds for working with spatial information, and thankfully, it looks like MS have actually stuck to implementing these as they are (although it hasn't stopped them adding in a few 'bonus methods'....)  The OGC methods can be found here and the additional methods are here.  A complete overview of the OGC standards is at the open geospatial site.

More to follow...

Shore Tech Systems provided Start-rite Ltd with a web application to centralise the management and administration of a key business system. The new administration system provides a consolidation of usage statistics from the existing business system along with email notifications and a reporting service. The system allows for management of the hosting of the business system physical servers and allows for monitoring of system the outlined resources all from the same central web application:

For more information see: http://www.shoretechsystems.co.uk/CaseStudies/StartRite/Default.aspx

We are an IT Consulting Partnership based in the City of Norwich, Norfolk, UK. Since being founded in 2007 by Ross Buggins and John Healy, Shore Tech Systems has moved from strength to strength. Together, our diverse skill sets have created a Partnership that allows us to offer something extra to our clients.

We focus on crafting bespoke IT software that enables you to control your business, rather than allowing your business controlling you. We have shared our experiences and provided our services to a complete range of clients from Educational Institutes, SME’s, Government Agencies to Self Employed persons. This experience allows us to be ready to understand your unique requirements and move your business forward. 

Ross Buggins

Continuing his education reading Computer System Engineering (BSc) at the Computer Sciences School of the University of East Anglia he twice received the Dean's award for distinguished performance; he then received commercial and University sponsored funding to continue research which he had started as an undergraduate. From this, the natural progression was to move to IT Consultancy full time and he believes mobile applications fully utilising location awareness is where the future will be.

John Healy

Whilst reading Molecular biology at the University Of Essex his interest in computers was sparked when using them heavily for cell imaging and analysis. Upon completion he turned his attention full time to pursuing further education into Computer Science, which he read at the University Of East Anglia, attaining awards from the IET and BCS. His interests focus heavily on user interaction and accessibility upon the web.

Shore Tech Systems provides a subscription based rota system for the University of East Anglia Students Union to enable the online management of rota time scheduling for over 100 employees. The system has been in use for over 12 months with future expansion planned to more departments as well as new functionality including a mobile portal and SMS gateway integration.

For more information see: http://www.shoretechsystems.co.uk/CaseStudies/UEA_Students_Union/Default.aspx

Sys Consulting Limited turned to Shore Tech Systems to integrate a specialist signal processing library with a public web site. This project had a number of large hurdles to overcome:

For more information see: http://www.shoretechsystems.co.uk/CaseStudies/SysCo/Default.aspx

Shore Tech Systems LLP has finally launched its web presence.  After over a year of successful business through word of mouth, the next step for us is to start drawing business in through the search engines.  We hope that the site gives you enough information about what we do and how we do it.  Here's some of the info from our home page.

At Shore Tech Systems we focus on crafting bespoke IT software solutions that enable you to control your business, rather than allowing your business to control you. We have shared our experiences and provided our services to a complete range of clients from Educational Institutes, SME’s, Government Agencies to Self Employed persons. We are ready to understand your unique requirements and help move your business forward.

Whatever your size and whatever your needs, Shore Tech Systems is ready to help provide you with the answer.Talk to us about how we can help you.

Data Aquisition

There is continual growth in the quantity of data being stored by organisations; as such, the demand to centralise the structure of these data repositories is increasing. Shore Tech Systems have expertise in harvesting data from both crawling the public World Wide Web and internally within a business. As network and processing speeds keep improving, now is the obvious time to find out how gathering data can open up new benefits to you.

Web Services

Connecting your future business IT requirements with Web Services will provide you with the assurances you expect but with far greater flexibility than traditional methods give. Seamless integration both internally and externally of your organisation will allow you to drive forward delivering new systems with ease. With the worry of how to connect removed from the equation, you can focus on how you organisation can benifit.

Data Mining

Identifying patterns within your data enables a transformation into business information and knowledge. With the power of knowledge an organisation can determine the current positives and also the negatives, allowing for thorough scrutinisation and discovery of new ways to move forward. As more data becomes available to mine the accuracy of the information exposed can only increase. So why not start now?

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Tel: 020 3287 9169

Email: enquiries@shoretechsystems.co.uk

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