I’ve been moving some software I wrote a few ago, from Amazons cloud environment(EC2) to an offsite web farm here in Scotland over the last couple of months and thought I’d take the opportunity to freshen up the interface a bit. As I was now using Apex 4, I was keen to take advantage of [...]

River Invertebrate Classification System RICT is a software tool that the environment agencies in the UK use to help monitor and classify the ecology of invertebrates throughout the UK river network Technical architect and solution developer for this project. PL/SQL, XML, Oracle Apex, Web Services, JQUERY, CSS, RSS, Linux, Amazon AWS cloud computing, Amazon EBS, [...]

Scottish Water were developing a corporate Data Warehouse to consolidate the change from three authorities to one authority. They were developing way to integrate business intelligence between the three authorities with a single point of entry to the business’s information. Mark has a determined and focused attitude, and done everything necessary in his role as [...]

The FISH tool was developed for the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research to classify fish populations in Rivers throughout the UK. The software was developed in Oracle with the new APEX 3.2 release. Custom APEX templates were created including custom logon screens and backend functionality. JQuery is used to provide a more [...]

River Invertebrates Classification Tool is a software application that allows the Environment agencies to determine the ecology classification of water bodies throughout the UK. The software makes use of Oracle, XML, Web services, CSS, RSS and custom stastistical functions implemented in Oracle and ported from Insightful S+. Raw river data sets collected by ecologists are [...]

Although we specialise in Oracle, XML and Web technology, over the last ten years we have worked with clients in Retail, Public Sector, Manufacturing and Not for Profit organisations delivering a wide range of software services from Oracle development to EPOS systems, web sites and MS Exchange / Blackberry integration.

Blucel designed and developed an SOA application that interacts with Oracle and Insightful S+ server. The software send raw Oracle data from environmental sampling surveys throughout the UK, the data transport mechanism sends the raw data as XML instances of XSD schema documents. S+ receives the data using a C# web service, converts it to [...]