| News Archive April 2006 - DDD3 - 3rd June 2006
Liam Westley has been selected to present at the third DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! day on 3 June 2006. His topic is How to start your own Software Development company for £5000. This is an interactive session providing a quick start guide to setting up your own Limited company to develop software products.
You can find out more at www.developerday.co.uk. Registration is free and starts on 2nd May (places go fast so do register early). March 2006 - RapidDB now on SourceForge
The RapidDB system is now available on SourceForge, one of the largest open source community sites. You can find the project at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rapiddb complete with source code repository and file downloads. October 2005 - Free developer event 22 October 2005
Join Liam Westley at the second DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! day on 22 October 2005. His topic will be a quick guide to running the SubVersion version control system under Windows and VS.NET 2003. This is a a free event held at Microsoft UK in Reading. You can find out more at www.developerday.co.uk
Liam's PowerPoint presentation can now be downloaded as a ZIP file from here. The presentation contains full speakers notes which include all the step by step instructions for the demonstrations. September 2005 - RapidDB is now an open source project
Tiger Computer Services Ltd has formally announced that the RapidDB system used to accelerate multi database software development will be made an open source project.
Liam Westley from Tiger Computer Services Ltd said, 'Giving developers full access to all source code, for both the desktop and compact framework versions, will help speed development of the system and provide a larger user base who can feedback into future versions.'
Keep an eye on progress of the project at http://rapiddb.tigernews.co.uk. April 2005
Free DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! day on May 14th
Liam Westley will be presenting at the first DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! day being held at Microsoft UK headquarters in Reading on May 14th. He will be giving a talk on 'Using interfaces to simplify access to multiple DB providers in .NET'. Full details at http://www.developerday.co.uk.
Post event downloads now available here..
January 2005 - chellomedia select Tiger Computer Services Ltd
chellomedia (part of UPC Europe) have selected Tiger Computer Services to aid them with a broadcast video project, combining control and display of multiple video source co-ordinated with broadcast video graphics, on a project due to launch Q2 2005. November 2004 - QVC UK sign up for Niagara SMS
A three month pilot of the Niagara SMS moderation system at QVC UK has now been successfully completed. QVC UK have decided to make the Niagara moderation system an integral production tool for the moderation of SMS text to TV messages from viewers direct to screen. The press release can be found here. November 2004
Bengal RapidDB system, used internally for products such as the Niagara moderation system, is now available to clients of Tiger Computer Services Ltd.
Create and access databases for the following systems; SQL Server 2000, Access MDB, MySql, IBM DB2 and SQL Server CE.
RapidDB creates the database from a simple XML schema definition (no SQL scripts required), and includes automated code generation of the database access classes for C# or VB.NET (including .NET Compact Framework).
A single auto generated class is compatible with all of the supported database formats, and includes Xml serialization and deserialization for use in web server state management and SOAP web services.
*Oracle 9i support coming soon October 2004
Niagara moderation system now supports DB2 database server as back end data store.
Niagara microsite launched - now you can request a demo moderation system of your own, complete with live SMS text messaging. You can find the Niagara microsite here. September 2004
QVC use the Niagara moderation system from Tiger Computer Services Ltd to pilot SMS text messaging from viewers direct to screen.
June 2004
Liam Westley to present at the London .NET Users Group on Thursday 24 June. Visit the http://www.dnug.org.uk to details on how to attend. The presentation, 'Using interfaces to simplify accessing multiple DB providers in .NET', will include solutions for transparently accessing SQL Server 2000, SQL Server CE 2.0 and Microsoft Access databases.
April 2004
Sumatra content management system upgraded to support full text search as well as powerful metadata search facilities.
January 2004
Tiger Computer Services becomes a Microsoft Certified Partner. December 2003
Tiger Computer Services is proud to announce that the Bengal Tape Library system now boasts a Microsoft .NET connected logo for it's SOAP web service interface. You can find out more about the Bengal Tape Library here.
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