Creating Back Button Functionality in a Rich UI Application Using the Momento Pattern.

Posted by Paul Le Herissier | Friday, October 23, 2009 | not categorized | Leave comment

This blog post will tell you how I to create back button or "undo" functionality in a rich UI application. I've used the Twitter Silverlight Application to demonstrate this but it can be used in quite a few scenarios such as graphic packages or data modelling software where you require the ability to go back and tweak changes.

Governor to Build CRM System for Costar UK

Posted by Eva Zafra | Saturday, August 01, 2009 | under News category | Leave comment

Costar UK has chosen Governor Technology to develop a new Customer Relationship Management System for them, based on the Splendid CRM platform.

Governor Acquires Textor Webmasters

Posted by Eva Zafra | Thursday, July 30, 2009 | under News category | Leave comment

Governor Technology successfully completed the acquisition of Textor Webmasters Ltd.

TextorWebmasters had been providing web development, support and hosting services to design companies since 1995, and was responsible for creation of the highly successful financial technology portal bobsguide.

Using Technology to Maximise the Value of your Customers

Posted by Richard Beaumont | Friday, March 06, 2009 | under Software Business, Email Marketing categories | Leave comment

It is often easy to overlook the fact whilst recessions are generally not a good thing, some companies always survive better than others, and some positively thrive on competing in tough market conditions.

Whilst there cannot be any universal formula for success in hard times, one of the common factors found in many such businesses is their acknowledgement of how important it is to both understand and stay close to their customers.

Governor Goes to the Movies

Posted by Eva Zafra | Sunday, March 01, 2009 | under News category | Leave comment

We'be been creating a number of events based websites recently, and our latest offering is a series of promotional sites for the film that is sure to become one of 2009's biggest blockbusters - Star Trek.  

Creating Particle Effects in Silverlight

Posted by John Mannix | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | not categorized | Leave comment

The term particle effects describes a computer animation technique where many small particles are combined to create realistic special effects that would otherwise be difficult to achieve using standard animation techniques. Typical examples of the visual effects that are achieved with this approach include: fire, water, smoke, fog, snow and sparkles.

In this post we look at a simple implementation of a particle system in Silverlight and use it to create a realistic smoke effect.

ControlParameter Supports “__Page” as ControlId, But Not “__UserControl”

Posted by Neil Dodson | Thursday, February 05, 2009 | not categorized | Leave comment

If you've worked with ObjectDataSource parameters, you may know you can bind parameter values to properties of the current page. You may have also found that when the data source is declared inside a user control, there's no mechanism for finding property values inside that control. Below we look at the background behind this, and present two possible solutions.

Unilink Redevelop Website Using Umbraco

Posted by Eva Zafra | Sunday, February 01, 2009 | under News category | Leave comment

Unilink Finance is the latest of our customers to have their website redeveloped using the Umbraco Content Management System.

Binding Multiple Fields to RadioButtonList Item Text

Posted by Neil Dodson | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | not categorized | Leave comment

The Asp.Net RadioButtonList is a databound control which displays items as a mutually exclusive set of options in a Web Form. The data which is bound to the label part of each option can be formatted using a format string, but only a single field can be bound to the label. This post shows an implementation which allows multiple fields to be bound to the item labels.

Thomson Financial Choose Governor for Email Marketing

Posted by Eva Zafra | Thursday, January 01, 2009 | under News category | Leave comment

Thomson Financial, part of Thomson Reuters, has asked Governor Technology to deliver email marketing campaigns on their behalf across Europe.