Just a quick entry to welcome our newest clients to the Technica family. They are:

Tax Accountants (Herts) Ltd
Tea and Cake PR Limited
Mount Vernon Dental Specialists

Craig Fisher is a partner in Technica Solutions - www.technicasolutions.co.uk and is highly regarded as a sales expert. He is regularly asked to speak at many events on the subject of generating new business.

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We are pleased to report that we have moved our servers out of Global Switch in London Docklands and in to a state-of-the-art new facility in Hemel Hempstead.

We also continue to host servers in data centres in Telford, Manchester and Cambridge so that we can benefit from geographical and data redundancy.

Docklands was proving to be very difficult to arrange access and, like most of London was seriously short of Power. We also had concerns about the older cooling systems in Docklands as well as the risk of flooding.

With the move to Hemel we have no shortage of power and wonderfully easy and yet secure access, 24 hours a day 365 days per week. We also have the ability to expand easily. This means that we can continue to offer remote server hosting facilities to clients, but now lead time to implementation can be as short as six hours if needed.

Our Rack:



Our Initial Servers:





Jason Ozin is a well-known IT professional, technical architect and joint owner of Technica Solutions - www.technicasolutions.co.uk. Jason consults leading UK and international enterprises on real world technical and IT issues. Jason specialises in business infrastructure and IT security matters.

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We were looking for an easy way to produce quotes from our web site.
Ideally the quote would be a PDF document automatically emailed to the applicant and tailored according to certain criteria input from a simple form.

We were pleased to discover how easy it proved to be to create PDF documents.

Here is some sample code. The comments should be self explanatory.

In this case PHP is running with Apache on a Windows server.


<?php

# file path to pdf document
# return the actual path to the script and append to it the
# subfolder where the quotes are to be stored
$mypath = getcwd();
$mypath = str_replace("\\","/",$mypath);
$mypath = $mypath."/quotes/";
#So $mypath will be something like "D:/WEBS/mysite/pdf/quotes/";

# create unique filename based on date and time
$myfile = $mypath."quote-".strftime("%y%m%d-%H%M%S").".pdf";

# create handle for new PDF document
$mypdf = pdf_new();

# open a file for the new document
pdf_open_file($mypdf, $myfile);

# start a new page (A4) - dimensions in points (1/72 of an inch)
pdf_begin_page($mypdf, 595, 842);

# add an image top right. jpg in same folder as script
# coords are bottom left of image and 3rd argument is scaling
# coords are again in 1/72 of an inch
$myimage = pdf_open_image_file($mypdf, "jpeg", "logo.jpg");
pdf_place_image($mypdf, $myimage, 420, 760, 0.5);

# get and use a font object
# to add our address below our logo
$tahoma = pdf_findfont($mypdf, "Tahoma", "host", 1);
pdf_setfont($mypdf, $tahoma, 9);
pdf_show_xy($mypdf, "4 Hamilton Business Park WD6 2FR",430, 750);
pdf_show_xy($mypdf, "T 020 8236 9160 F 020 8236 9161",430, 738);
pdf_show_xy($mypdf, "www.technicasolutions.co.uk",430, 726);

# set font to verdana 10 points now
$verdana = pdf_findfont($mypdf, "Verdana", "host", 1);
pdf_setfont($mypdf, $verdana, 10);

# LETTERHEAD DONE

# print text coords in points (1/72 of an inch) with origin at bottom left
# 20 points between lines is about right
pdf_show_xy($mypdf, "This is a test print.",50, 750);
pdf_show_xy($mypdf, "This is line 2 of the test print", 50,730);

# set a colour for the drawing
# colours are set as 0 to 1 so 0,0,1 is pure blue (0,0,255)
pdf_setcolor($mypdf, "stroke", "rgb", 0, 0, 1);

# draw a blue line around middle of page
pdf_moveto($mypdf, 20, 400);
pdf_lineto($mypdf, 575, 400);
pdf_stroke($mypdf);

# note you can also set fills:
# pdf_setcolor($mypdf, "stroke", "rgb", 0, 0, 1);
# pdf_setcolor($mypdf, "fill", "rgb", 1, 1, 0);
# draw and fill a rectangle
# pdf_rect($mypdf, 50, 500, 200, 300);
# pdf_fill_stroke($mypdf);
# or draw a circle
# pdf_circle($mypdf, 400, 600, 100);
# pdf_fill_stroke($mypdf);

# end page
pdf_end_page($mypdf);

# close and save file
pdf_close($mypdf);

# file is now sitting there saved on your server ready for your script to send it

?>



Jason Ozin is a well-known IT professional, technical architect and joint owner of Technica Solutions - www.technicasolutions.co.uk. Jason consults leading UK and international enterprises on real world technical and IT issues. Jason specialises in business infrastructure and IT security matters.

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We have created this new blog section on our website to keep our clients informed of news and items of interest to them.

What is a blog?

A weblog, which is shortened to "blog", is a type of web page where entries are made (similar to a journal or diary), usually displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Blogs often provide commentary or news and information on a particular subject. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual.

Technica Solutions can add a blog area to clients' existing sites or create a new site incorporating a blog. Just ask and we will be happy to advise.

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