Clive Roberts role was to develop the invoice generation and notification for British Airways. Which used SQL2005 (tables, stored procedures, triggers); Reporting Services for the invoices; Notification service to sent the email; VS.net 2005 for the protocols to add the file to the email and to generate the reports into PDF`s or xml; XSLT to format the email sent by NS 2005.

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It was my eldest daughter`s prom coming up and we were getting fully prepared for the big night, she was so excited and wanted everything to be perfect for her and her friends. Her GCSE`s had practically taken over her life for almost two years and she had worked unbelievably hard, I couldn`t criticize her in any way, she is a credit to me. I had promised her she could have a posh dress with classy shoes and clutch bag, have her hair and nails done and even treat her to a spray tan at our local beauty treatment boutique, she had really grown up and loved to dress up and look her best. I was approached by her and her friends one Saturday afternoon and they pleaded with me to book them a chauffeur-driven limousine and they would all pay me back, at first I thought I would end up paying for it but they assured me I would get the money. I didn`t mind too much, besides I wanted the girls to enjoy the night and feel like celebrities! We all sat down together and looked to hire a chauffeur. It was a lot of fun looking at all the different cars however we had not yet found a good enough company offering the best prices. I came across a company advertising to hire a chauffeur, they offered secure chauffeur-driven luxury transport, with the best trained drivers they had many vehicles to choose from. To hire a chauffeur was beginning to look very expensive however when the girls worked out splitting the cost between them all it knocked it down a lot.