Barbados Network Program – Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs needed was desirous in implementing an automatic process for Nationals who are applying for “Returning Nationals Status” which would allow them concessions provided under Law and facilitated via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This was done currently using physical or downloadable pdf forms. To reduce the repetitive and arduous process of…

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CRM Desktop

CRM Desktop for windows allows you to search through customers and also gives an alert for tasks based on the due date and time. It iterfaces with the hosted SugarCRM instance using the web services via REST API Features Customer Search Launch website from desktop app Task alert popup Installation Download CRM Desktop Unzip CRMDesktop.exe…

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Email my public address

As by now you would have known that I have a RaspberryPI connected to my TV running OSMC. I recently had to need to connect to this RPI remotely. So as we all do I punched a hole in my router to the device on the ssh port. I also signed up for DynDNS so…

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Make your Raspberry Pi speak!

I found an article online once that taught me the “say” command on OSX – which i think was pretty cool! The command line function allows you to activate the speech to text feature of OSX and can be used for a variety of fun project. You can try it by firing up terminal (Applications…

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SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) subscription jobs

Anyone who have worked with reporting services have run into the problem of a report subscription not executing a report correctly and the usual response is “how do I re-run this report”. For the novice, we know that all the subscriptions are actual jobs under SQL Server Agent on SQL server. But going there will…

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Database Deployment Scripts

Many of us as part of our daily job perform database deployments. It is imperative that organizations implement adequate change management procedures to ensure programmers do not make changes directly into the databases of the production environment without first properly justifying the value of this change and testing their change in an appropriate testing databases….

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Cron on Raspbmc

Here’s another little tutorial especially for people new to raspberry pi or linux in general (such as myself). Cron jobs are used to execute specific actions at pre-configured times. These actions can be executing scripts, writing data to a file, etc. (would be glad to hear of stuff you do with cron jobs in the…

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