Michael S. Clark

The online tee-time booking system that I developed at Computa Services for the Carnoustie Golf Links, is now live.
It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server.
The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, using C# [...]

Thanks to Songbird Karaoke who were on at the Commercial Inn in Arbroath. This is me singing “Two Princes” by the Spin Doctors.

I’ve been playing about with a multi-threaded download manager for RapidShare in C# for a while now and I was looking around for better version control than a Windows Briefcase directory.
Since this is a personal project, I didn’t want to use our SVN code repository at Computa, so I had a look at Google [...]

I visited my brother Bryan last week. He’s in the RAF, and posted at Cosford, just outside Wolverhampton. What a drive that was - 6 and half hours!
We went to chocaholic’s paradise, Cadbury World when we were there. Definitely an experience; especially the factory shop. 48 Creme Eggs for £7! Not for the faint-hearted, or [...]

I recently came upon a situation where a client’s website was hosted by their ISP. They wanted it to be updated, so as always, I looked at using WordPress.
Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range.
That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL to operate. [...]