Ufindus

August 29, 2007

Rapidsite evolution comes a step closer

The long awaited launch of the new rapidsite software has come a step closer.

This truly is a big deal to not only us here at UFindUs and Customer Street but more importantly to our customers.

Over the last few years we have continued to develop our range of products and services, keeping pace with the ever changing demands placed on us by our customers as well as staying one step ahead of our competition. I think that in general we have been able to achieve both things.

An area that we have however tended to overlook, and which has brought us more brickbats than bouquets, has been our templated websites which we provide free of charge for the majority of our customers. Stuart Laverick, our developer assigned to this  mammoth task has now been left alone long enough to be able to finish an alpha version of the new software.

This prototype has been passed to Stuart Forrest, our technical director with the brief to “do his best to break it”. Stuart will now undertake to pick as many holes in it as possible, checking it thoroughly to see if it has any coding errors before it goes onto the next stage which will involve the creation of the new template skins.

If you haven’t come across the development blog why not check it out, as even from a layman’s point of view it makes interesting reading to learn about the many processes which deliver something we feel will only improve further our ability to continue to deliver a first class service.

June 25, 2007

You don’t have to have a technical mind to appreciate the technically minded

Filed under: Blogroll, UFindUs, business, cool stuff, technical — ufindus @ 3:20 pm

I wrote a few weeks back about the work that our developers do and how we are currently having all our web software fully redesigned in house so that it becomes web based rather than pc based, a big asset as we can make changes which become instantly available for our customers. I keep threatening Stuart the developer in charge of this project that I will to go and have a look at what has been done so far.  

There are two reasons for this, the first one is that I genuinely do have a passion for UFindUs and want our customers to be able to get the best from what we can offer. Secondly if I am being honest I am just plain nosey. I once did a course in networking and have my City and Guilds certificate to prove it. My motivation for doing the course was the fact I love pottering on a pc and I wanted to do more than just scratch around the surface of computing. Sadly I soon discovered that in actual fact it was not what I thought it would be and I couldn’t wait to get through the course. This has only served to increase my admiration of the technically minded and fuel my curiosity and indeed excitement about the new products they create. I hope that some point soon I can see what’s being going on in there and share some of it with you prior to the full launch.

Graham Armstorng – UfindUs  

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