St Patricks Day 2020
Wishing you all a fantastic St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. We are closed on bank holiday Tuesday 17th March 2020, so enjoy your day off and a well earned rest too.
Mark Andrew Smith Limited
St Patricks Day 2020
Meetings And Visitors: Covid-19
In order to limit the spread of any Covid-19 infection to us, we have now taken the decision to close our offices and/or server facilities to visitors. This is so that we are fit and healthy and able to continue to support your business with the technical support you will need during this time. Instead, … Read more
Speedy Customer Service
We’re all human, and what do you do when you have introduced a typo error into a piece of code that has just gone into production…? Well, you liaise with the client, trace the problem through, and admit you cannot spell “Contract” in the variable “ContractDate”. Here is the bug… &StowField(“Date”,”$ContactDateDB”,”‘”,0); The fix was corrected … Read more
Power Loss
For information only Just after 12:25 today, we completely lost power to our Mucklestone site causing us to switch to our diesel generator to generate our own power until the cause could be found. This was caused by an electrician working elsewhere on the site, tripping the main site circuit breaker. He was doing loop … Read more
Low Cost Bespoke Software
Unlike Santa, if your business doesn’t have many Elves to help you, maybe it is time to think about using software to help your business. With no up front fees, and from only €70 (or £60) plus VAT per month, we can provide bespoke software for exactly what your business needs. We love to help … Read more
Merry Christmas 2019
All the staff at Mark Andrew Smith Limited would like to wish all our Case Centre Pro users a very Merry Christmas. We close on Friday 20th December 2019 and reopen on Monday 6th January 2020.
Employer Subsidised Mortgages
It was a real pleasure working with Tony Granger from PG Protect Limited on their new Employer Subsidised Mortgages financial benefits product. The complexities of HMRC tax and national insurance and getting the calculations perfect was both challenging and rewarding. I can say that this is one piece of software I have enjoyed working on, … Read more
New Module for Client Suspense Accounts
A client asked us for a new module to their software to cater for handling client funds that need to be in a separate client suspense account. We actually didn’t have one of these modules, and so we needed to create one from scratch at no cost to the client. So, I have been … Read more
Hyundai DHY6000SELR Diesel Generator Installation
Do you remember last month when we purchased a diesel standby generator for our infrastructure? Well, we now have it installed in our basement with extra exhaust silencers and a large pipe for the exhaust gases to exit to the outside world. This Hyundai diesel generator is noted as being one of the quietest around, … Read more
Standby Power
It is my birthday today, and I always try to take the day off, and to do something nice. For example, for previous birthdays, I have been out flying, or a hill walk, or like last year, spent the afternoon roller skating, always something that I wanted to do. So, what have I done this … Read more