Many of you will have implemented systems within your organisations. You may have found that even things that seem relatively simple at first thougth, turn out to be more complex and challenging.

But this surely is a fact of life, not just systems or web implementations? I’ve always set and worked towards goals, both personally and professionaly. Having a clearly defined goal or goals allows you to focus specifically on what you want to achieve and aim at that like a target. With a bit of luck, you might hit it, or at least come pretty close.

Defining your requirement then is a goal setting process and is really a form of project and time management. No technical skills required. Just plain old common sense really. Its just a matter of getting all the facts together as they relate to the goals you are trying to achieve.

Its surprising how many people make all their decisions based on assumptions. Oh well I thought it would… but surely it must… don’t they all do that…

I recently read a facinating book called The Four Agreements, which are;

1. Be impecable with your word
2. Don’t make any assumptions
3. Don’t take anything personally
4. Always do your best

I’m working on a new consulting agreement and I think I might just include these in it! Maybe it would weed out some of the 80 percenters…

I’ve been so busy for the last few months and have so many things to share here that I don’t know where to start. So I’m going to list some recent projects and then provide information on them over the next few posts. This will bring me up-to-date and hopefully I’ll keep this blog going at the correct pace…

1. Ecommerce system development
2. Autoresponder installation and config – incliuding custom coding using VB script for SQL database access
3. Ajax shopping cart / offer cart using EO Webs (previously ASPXLABS) ajax callback contol
4. Membership site concepts and member pages
5. Search engine spider food
6. Product delivery / download pages for ecommerce (digital products)
7. Web money magnets
8. Affiliate marketing
9. WordPress installation and setup
10. WhosOn installation and setup
11. SQL server Data Transformation Services – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly…
12. Click though tracking
13. Affiliate friendly pages (cookie splitter)

I’m sure there’s more but this is a start. Boy, I’ve got some catching up to do…

It’s been a long time since I posted here. I’ve had a very interesting time over the last few months, I’ve had a number of very interesting projects, both web and Windows coding. I’ve also taught myself something outside the realm of programming and systems design and implementation…

It has actually been one of the steepest learning curves I’ve put myself through! Dare I say as steep as any technical? Just about I think. Actually, part of what I learned is technical too!

In fact, being the tech that I am could either be;

a). Really great news b). Really bad news

We’ll see over the coming months I guess…

Anyway, I will be making some reciprocal posts to get up to date, probably just weekly and then I will try and post here at least twice a week.