Documents
There are various documents available that give an overview of the thinking behind this site. We present them here, the most recent first:
- Presentation to the Manchester Linux Users' Group on 21st February 2004 is here. This meeting was very helpful in promoting discussion and ideas.
- Presentation update to the Manchester Local Group of the RSS, 3rd December 2003 is here.
- The powerpoint for the presentatation at the 3rd ENBIS conference held on 21st-22nd August 2003 in Barcelona is here.
- The use of commercial software in a small-company environment can be found here with a Word 97 version here.
- The abstract for the talk at the RSS Plymouth 2002 conference in September
2002
is here and the final powerpoint
is here.
- The lead article in RSS News March 2002 is here.
- A brief article for the UK DTI Northern Launch of the Manufacturing Advisory Service
may be found here.
- A powerpoint of the presentation to the December
2001 RSS joint Quality Forum and Manchester local group meeting is
here.
- You will find our White Paper here. It is a bit old - some of the ideas
formulated when it was written (in July 2001)
have been superceeded but the document is still relevant. This is a
printable HTML version without all the borders and background.
Please note that all these documents are copyright ©
Quantex Research.
For the technically interested, this site is served by Apache hosted on a RedHat Linux - you can check the headers for the current implementations if you try (on linux) lynx --header --dump for example.
The site was built in close collaboration between Quantex RESEARCH and Kusala Web Developments in Sheffield, UK using their own Arcos development architecture in XML with layout in HTML and a Postgresql database. The architecture contains a lot of proven and robust PHP components and the associated SQL. The bespoke part is only about 14000 lines long - including both XML, HTML and text. There are some 45 database tables in 4 databases and a further 71 table-like structures used. The whole site is cached so that pages are served rapidly despite the high level of housekeeping. There are over 410,000 lines of generated PHP, SQL and HTML. Details of Arcos can be found at arcos.kusala.com.
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