This is a short guide for developers explaining how to access a visitor/users location based on their IP address. It works almost perfect in the US, and very well in the UK. Imagine being able to automatically identify where a user came from on your website, or even using this data to auto fill in a users address when they sign up to something on your website! Luckily this facility does not return house numbers (Yet). What this tutorial will do is at least provide an idea of a visitor’s exact city (in most cases). You also get the visitor’s approximated latitude and longitude, as well as his or her’s state/county, country, and country code. With my computer it got all but the county right, it thought my area in Swindon was Berkshire! The long/lat was about 400m out from my exact location. Thats quite good.
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So by now I’m sure you have been searching a long time to find a script or some code to help you build a SIMPLE php calendar script which displays the whole year to a page. Well hopefully this post will help you out. This script will help you build a yearly linear calendar, we needed this to view all our our clients renewal dates in a clear manner. My example code is is self contained in one file (you can split into modular files if you wish). There is no javascript needed, it is all in the PHP and HTML/CSS. Requires PHP4+

This code can easily be modded for database integration (which is what we are to use it for). We will try to help if anyone has any issues. At the moment you can pass in a YEAR parameter (either GET OR POST) and it will render that year… for example: http://www.opal-creations.co.uk/blog/demos/php-linear-calendar/?year=2022

This is only the skin and bones of designing the PHP yearly calendar so please style it and add any relevant javascript/database connections as required.

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Reflux is a product that we have developed and provide to takeaway companies, particularly pizza shops. It is the most advanced takeaway ordering website available. We provide a desktop application to manage/view/print your orders… and now you can contorl your website with it.

We are proud to announce that this morning we have released an update for the Reflux Client (Version 3.2) This change only affects those on the 3rd edition of Reflux. This new update has a few small bug issues fixes as well as a new feature added to the desktop Reflux Client. When you next run the reflux client you will be prompted to install. Please do not skip this update. (more…)

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Yes! We love doing things “out of the norm”. Every one of our team is an experienced software developer. We specialise in both Online and Offline programming however we found the majority of our business was coming from web design so we tailored our business to suit.

We are happy to provide quotes for desktop software, we can create bespoke applications or full corporate suites, we have even been known to develop “similar products” to others on the market as are generally cheaper.

Our desktop software programming expertise includes:

• VB6
• VB .NET
• C#
• C
• C++
• Java (Including embedded devices)
• Mobile Device languages including iPhone, Symbian and Android
• Python

We will choose a programming language to suit your needs. So far, this is most commonly VB.NET or Java.

We have released several commercial products including (but not limited to) the commission management tool for Land of Leather, POS systems for restaurants, and order management tools for our Reflux web package,

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