February 2nd, 2011
I reckon some of the best times working as a software designer and programmer are when you manage to make something really quite hideously complex look absolutely trivial to the end user. In this case, some fairly hairy fuzzy-searching, de-duplicating and difference-spotting code for the Help Training Courses Magical Auto Search, running behind a user [...]
November 1st, 2010
I’m working with Help Training Courses again at the moment on the next phase of the web site. We have some interesting new features lined up to make it even easier to find the right training at the right price.
Included in the first batch of these changes is a new facility to allow training providers [...]
June 24th, 2010
Actuance’s collaboration on Help Training Courses gets a mention in the ‘If we can you can’ newsletter this month. You can read the full article here… ‘Shildon-based entrepreneurs put bums on seats’.
June 1st, 2010
After spending a fair bit of time over the past few months developing a search facility that was a bit more ‘human’ in its responses than a simple text-based search would be, I was interested to stumble on this discussion on Applying Turing’s Ideas to Search by John Ferrara. In my case, by working in [...]
May 20th, 2010
For those of you following the progress of Help Training Courses, the web site went into public beta at www.helptrainingcourses.com earlier this week. The site started as a collaboration between Actuance and successful local training startup, Help First Aid Training back in November but quickly grew into a full new venture in [...]