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8 step Business Plan

1) Purpose of Business – the business object. what is this money making machine look like? why invest money / resources (time & goodwill) into this object?
2) Market Assessment – the outside world / paragraph + evidence ( supporting up to date facts and figures )
3) Financial


  • A) Primary Yield (Turnover)
    B) Primary Startup + Running Cost(s)
    C) Primary Current Cashflow / “in the bank”
    D) Derived Excess (“profit”) = A minus B
    E) Derived Total Investment neccesary = C minus B

4) SWOT
5) PERT / Biz Evolution / growth
6) Partners / Affliates
7) Marketting Strategy – demographics,
8) Pricing

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writing a captcha for contact forms

Thinking about using Recaptcha but I cant help thinking that “what is 1 + 1” the simplest…

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apt-get howto’s (debian)

nice howto here

The relevant commands to get going are:

Lets say we’re looking for the unzipping utility:

apt-cache search unzip

A list is provided – type in its title (happens to be unzip anyway)


apt-get install unzip

It trots off and downloads and installs it all for you.

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requirements specification - whats in it?

  1. A Vision

  2. Use cases

  3. The Glossary of terms

  4. Sequence diagrams

  5. URPS+ (dont ask what that is for now – be content it is the non functional requirements;)

  6. The domain model

thats it including one mystery one – answers on the back of a postcard

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