Why Pale Purple?

PHP Development and Consultancy

We can design and deliver applications on our own, or in conjunction with an existing team.

We have first hand experience of a broad range of bespoke applications covering areas such as e-commerce, reporting, data warehousing and data integration.

What can we do for you?

As consultants

  • Undertake audits on existing code to highlight weak areas such as security, performance or potential maintainability issues.
  • Assist in the design of software.
  • Call on our training expertise to provide focussed assistance for fast, efficient problem solving
  • In emergencies, we can provide developer resources to track down and fix particular bugs, or solve urgent problems

As developers

  • Bespoke software tailored towards your business needs
  • Application migration to an open accessible platform
  • Cost reduction through improved workflow, no software licenses and lower support costs.
  • Allow for secure, remote working
  • Enhanced data security and auditing (we can log all changes to data)

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Training

PHP training

We provide a number of off the shelf, and customisable courses for PHP Training covering everything from a basic introduction to more advanced Object Oriented and frameworks.

Courses can be delivered to experienced or new programmers. Content includes :

  • Zend Framework
  • AJAX (Prototype/Mootools)
  • Object Orientation (PHP 4 and PHP 5)
  • Libraries: Smarty (templating), Propel (Object Relation Mapping), PEAR
  • Traditional HTML elements (form handling)
  • Application Design and Maintenance best practices
  • Security best practices
  • Relational Databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
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Scheduled Courses

We have a number of scheduled PHP training courses, which take place in the second week of each month.

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Why Choose Us?

We only provide training courses in technologies we use for real development on a daily basis. We believe the trainer should have an in-depth knowledge of the subject matter, and not be overly reliant upon course-ware and slides.

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Hosting and Systems Support

LAMP Hosting Environments

We offer PHP hosting for development customers, providing a single point of support and responsibility.

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Zope/Plone Hosting Environments

If you need UK based hosting for a Zope or Plone based website look no further.

We can create a new look and feel for your Plone site with a custom skin (theme)

Linux Server Support

Ideal for customers who require the flexibility of a dedicated server for their business web application, but do not have the necessary skills internally.

We make sure that your server is up to date and secure, dealing with day-to-day administration tasks (e.g. backup, security and monitoring).

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Products

File Exchange Portal

Designed to allow businesses to share files, either internally or externally without the practical and management/administrative limitations of email. Web based with built in virus scanning, whitelist of accepted file formats and 'invite to upload' functionality.

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All-in-one Email Server

Fully featured business email server catering for any size of business, any number of domains and includes multi-layered anti-spam and anti-virus technology.

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All-in-one Communications Server

Building upon the above email server, we can provide a simple managed server that gives you:

  • A phone system based on the popular Open Source Asterisk software
  • A complete email server
  • Communications management software
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Contact Us

General Email: Send us an emailinfo@palepurple.co.uk
Sales Email: Send us an emailsales@palepurple.co.uk
Accounts Email: Send us an emailaccounts@palepurple.co.uk
Support Email: Send us an emailsupport@palepurple.co.uk
Main Phone: 0845 0046746 or 0121 314 6878
Skype: pale-purple
Mobile / Out of Hours: 07792 380669
Registered Office: The Business Centre,
Edward Street,
Redditch,
Worcestershire, B97 6HA, UK

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Linux Expo 2008 - Efficient development with PHP Frameworks

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On 15:30 on Friday 24th October, David Goodwin will be giving a talk titled "Efficient Development with PHP Frameworks" at the Linux Expo in Olympia.

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Beginners PHP Training - 10th to 14th November 2008

(11/09/2008)

A week long programming course in PHP, aimed at beginners

Satisfied Customers

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thanks very much for the PHP training that you did for my developers yesterday.... good balance between theory and hands on coding .... [the] course being pitched perfectly for their level of pre-existing knowledge. I'm particularly impressed with the online access to all of the course material .... so that they can refer back to everything that was covered over the coming months. I know they are looking forward to their next course so thanks again.

Darren Beale, Siftware