In our business, myself and the technical staff have computing related degrees, the rest of the staff are also educated to university level. I have a degree in Computer Science but does it make me a scientist? Or am I an engineer, or a business man (as myself and Julie own the business)?

The most important part of any business is the people in it and the people that use it, staff and clients both. The most difficult part of our job is communication and change. Attempting to make the technical aspects of our business accessible to everyone and trying to persuade people to use the systems we create. So where is the science in giving the best service we possibly can to each and everyone of our clients?

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Our very own MD, Julie Finch, has been shortlisted for Crain’s Business Woman of the Year!  Julie is one of three finalists in the Manufacturing and Technology Business sections.  I’m sure you’ll all join in sending Julie our best wishes for success on the night, in recognition of all she does in business and the business community, through the Chamber of Commerce.

I’m very proud to be her business partner!

For more information visit, 
 http://www.crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=business 

Has anyone noticed that they’re getting more spam recently? Especially bank phishing emails or individuals offering to transfer you millions of dollars. It’s really getting on my nerves!

As a company that provides email hosting, we’re doing all we can to combat spam at the moment, our mail server scans every mail and uses http://spamhaus.org to see if the mail is spam, generates statistics on the words used using bayesian alalysis to generate a points score of spaminess and also compares spam signatures with a database of known spam. Everything is virus checked too. Stats currently show that 73% of mail sent to our mail server is either blocked or discarded as it’s spam. When you include what I manually delete from my own mailbox, I’d have to (anecdotally) conclude that 90% + of all email is spam. It’s very annoying. Therefore I know it must be annoying everyone else! What can we do?

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I have written a quick tutorial on how to perform XSS using GWT and JSONP within a J2EE based container.

The tutorial can be viewed at:

http://eggsylife.blogspot.com/2008/10/gwt-and-cross-site-jsonp-in-j2ee.html

Optimising web sites is a bit of a black art but there is some science to it.  Essentially we mainly talk about optimising web sites for Google because 85% of all internet searches done in the UK are done using Google. How does a new web site get a good search position on Google?

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YOUR STOCKPORT, YOUR BUSINESS, YOUR FUTUREStockport Economic Alliance in partnership with Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce invites you to its free annual breakfast forum. Read the rest of this entry »

This years Stockport Chamber dinner is linking up with the local authority to celebrate the centenary of Stockport Town Hall! Join us on the 4th July to celebrate Stockport and Stockports vibrant business community in style!! Read the rest of this entry »

We have created a new promotional website for Valehouse Consulting Engineers, an independent North West based company specialising in mechanical and electrical building services design. Read the rest of this entry »

Julie Finch President of Stockport Local Chamber Council Julie was delighted to feature in her first column as President of Stockport Local Chamber Council (LCC). Read the rest of this entry »

As part of the online voting software we created for Trafford Children and Young People’s Service, we were sponsors of a prize given to a randomly selected pupil who voted in the Youth Parliament elections. Read the rest of this entry »