Paul Maunders | Web log

My UK Election Wish List

Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:47:25 +0000
There will be an election in the UK within the next 6 months, so I thought I would take some time to compile a list of the major issues that will influence my vote.So here’s my wish list for our next government:All government spending and contracts should be published openly, and available for anyone to [...]
politics

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Summary of the new Companies Act 2006

Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:42:36 +0000
A new companies act was introduced in 2006, that has been gradually phased in over the last 3 years, becoming fully operational on the 1st October 2009. The full act of parliament is over 700 pages long (in PDF form), so I’ve decided to try to highlight some of the key points / changes in [...]
business, companies house

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Working with Government APIs

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:31:16 +0000
It may have been a long time coming, but I have to say the UK Government has now made pretty good progress when it comes to making their services available online – and we have taken advantage of this with our online accounting system, Clear Books.Clear Books integrates with a number of Government APIs, including:Companies [...]
business, politics

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Running Askozia PBX on OSX with Sun’s VirtualBox

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:08:54 +0000
Here’s some instructions on how to get Askozia PBX running on a virtual machine with VirtualBox on OSX.1)  If you haven’t already, download and install VirtualBox.2) Download the Askozia disk image that you want to use. I’m using the latest Linux port release at the time of writing (r1161)3) Uncompress the image, and then convert [...]
asterisk, askozia

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Has your WordPress been hacked?

Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:00:12 +0000
There have been a number of vulnerabilities discovered in WordPress since it started, including one earlier this month. They all have pretty much the same objective: to try to get access to your blog in order to post links to their own sites.In this post I am going to look at ways you can tell [...]
blogging, wordpress

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