Sitting here with my coffee, sandwich, unfinished crossword and contemplating another of my now regular monthly trips from London to Halifax, I think it’s been a particularly productive few days. Aaron’s presentation revealed impressive progress on the new release of Vites; not least because of a 400% speed increase, an automated transition to the use... »

Sean joins the Connected Technical Customer Services team on Monday 1st February to help Tim, Doug and Andy with their expanding workload. Sean is the latest addition through our University Intern Programme and will spend 3 months intensively learning our systems, clients, applications and standards. Leeds-based Sean has just completed a BSc (Hons) in Business... »

Saturday January 30th… …is DOUGS BIRTHDAY! I think many beers are in order, for the 24th anniversary of Dougs birth should be an important day in everyone’s calendar. The more the merrier! »

We’re getting pretty busy as 2010 kicks off and we’re looking to find a couple of interns to help us out with front-end CSS/XHTML programming. I’d expect the internship to last 6 months or so and there is most definitely the opportunity for a job at the end of it for the brightest and... »

First day back and the snow is really coming down heavy with this week’s forecast predicting a great deal more snow. Our office is open again after the Christmas break and with just 15 support calls over the shutdown period we had one of the quietest periods on record so thanks to all our clients... »

A brief retrospective of our company Christmas Party in Harrogate. »

Connected close the main offices for the Christmas period from midday Thu 24th Dec until Mon 4th Jan. Clients with change contracts are requested to ensure all change requests for this period are sent prior to close of play on Monday 21st. As usual we have an out of hours support facility on 07590 293... »

The makers of Basecamp (37signals) have recently improved the way the user login system works. The change will make your account more secure, easier to sign in should you ever forget your details and also allow faster and easier switching between multiple Basecamp accounts. Part of this will be a new ‘launchpad’. Sometime during December,... »

Mad Friday (18th) is coming! The plan is to head into town for beer and curry after work and the more people who attend the better! – in fact I do believe (and fervently hope) that everyone is coming. Merry Christmas. »

As we enter our 14th year of trading it was time for a change in our outlook. What do you think of the new look? (email me martind@connected-uk.com). We've seen substantial growth in 2009 and 2010 is heading the same way and we wanted to get all of the team contributing regularly to the... »