We’ve been busy lately here at Neo Code and I wanted to give you an update.

First off we have received our FileMaker 11 Certification, and have been awarded FileMaker Platinum Level partner status, which is very exciting.

To celebrate we are offering a 15% discount on any FileMaker licenses purchased in August 2010. To qualify we just a need signed purchase order, a signed work order or you can purchase online through our strore - http://store.neocodesoftware.com.

Secondly we have been upgrading our data center. Here are a list of upgrades we have done lately and how they help us deliver better hosting:

1. UPS (battery backup) upgrades — The servers now have direct UPS connections. Prior to this we had network UPS connections, but if there was a power failure and the network was down, servers wouldn't get the message to power down. Now that we have direct connections, the two recent power outages didn't impact our servers.

2. Backup server upgrades — We added 10 terabytes of backup storage for more backup retention options. The options now available are: once a day, once a week, and once a month and faster restores. We also upgraded to Bacula 5 for file de-duplication to use backup capacity more efficiently.

3. Planned 100% increase in Internet bandwidth — Due to be in place by September 1st, 2010. We will increase our MTS-Allstream pipe from 10mb to 20mb. Please note that our current utilization is extremely low. We are increasing our bandwidth not because we were running low but to allow us to host your higher bandwidth applications - such as video hosting, voice over ip, and corporate file hosting. Note that while Allstream has assured us that there will be no major service disruption, there is always the chance, however small, that a service interruption may occur. We will do everything possible to minimize the chance of service disruption.

4. Cable labeling upgraded — Upgraded cable labels makes server and network maintenance easier. We have upgraded the labelling on over 500 cables. If you'd like your network and servers labelled for easier server and network maintenance let us know.

5. Improved server documentation using a Wiki — Having up to date documentation lets us troubleshoot issues easier, and provide better support to customers because we have all your information at our fingertips. If you'd like to know how having a wiki to document your internal processes let us know.

6. Emergency Notification System Upgrade — Our automated monitoring system has been upgraded to alerts our network administrators by calling (actually sends a text message) their cell phones to let them know that there is an emergency to improve service uptime by reducing the time it takes to notify our staff of a failure.

7. Improved temperature monitoring — We carefully monitor all our server rooms 24x7 to insure that our equipment temperature stays at the correct temperature. Keeping servers at the right temperature insures that they stay running.

Finally, our monthly software maintenance support plans have proved very successful. We have been able to offer discounted development hours based on the duration and volume of the monthly contract. The monthly plans deliver regular scheduled upgrades and support for your custom solutions.

Drawing upon their expertise in developing FileMaker databases for the web, Neo Code adapted Manitoba Hotel Association's existing tradeshow registration FileMaker 8 database for the world wide web. The database acts as a directory of potential guests for the annual Centrex tradeshow for hotels & restaurants. In little over ten hours, Neo Code not only created a secure, web-accessible interface for guest registration, but also added time saving functions such as list management tools, bulk email functionality, emailing confirmations, and a system for generating unique registration access codes. The remotely hosted solution allows tradeshow office staff to enter and change data without affecting online registrants.

The solution supported more than 2,000 registrations in the first year -- most of them online -- placing Centrex among the highest registration counts of any event at Winnipeg Convention Centre. The percentage of delegates registering electronically went from 5% to 58%. Fax registrations, which must be entered manually by office staff, dropped from 80% to 30%.

Phase-2 will entail creating a module to automatically email guests a registration confirmation, as well as adapting an 'Exhibiting Companies' database for the web-- to allow those companies to access and change their information automatically.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATTENTION TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Neo Code Software offers Free FileMaker hosting to Charities Hosted FileMaker Solutions Provides Access to Data Centre April 9th, 2008 Vancouver, BC As of today, Neo Code Software is committed to helping organizations that are improving our communities by offering to host their FileMaker solutions for free. Free FileMaker hosting allows charities access to FileMaker Server Advance - a $2500 product - the provides instant web publishing, remote FileMaker client sharing, plus regular daily backups. In addition charities have access to Neo Code Software's state of the art hosting facility, with dedicated cooling systems, uninterruptible power supplies, a high speed fibre internet connection, plus a team of network administrators, web designers and web application developers. Registered charitable organizations can contact Neo Code Software to arrange to have their free account FileMaker hosting account setup. Joshua Paul, President joshua@neocodesoftware.com Toll Free 1-888-748-0668 Neo Code Software's primary focus is helping our customers leverage the Internet to increase sales of products and services. We offer an integrated suite of products that includes content management, order processing, and email outreach. We offer custom development to extend our products or create new products unique to our clients' needs. We have our own data center, offering hosting and management services to insure solid deployment and response.

Neo Code was invited to attend MacWorld, courtesy of the fine people at MoneyWorks! MoneyWorks launched its double entry accounting suite of products into the US at MacWorld. While working in the booth, we met lots of people frustrated with MYOB, and Quickbooks. MoneyWorks has a plugin for integrating to FileMaker. And MarketCircle, makers of DayLite, have connectors for exchanging data with FileMaker and MoneyWorks. Of course I got a chance to play with the new MacBook Air. It's nice, the battery lasts five hours, and it has a cool multitouch trackpad. However the coolest thing was www.eye.fi's 2GB SD memory card that includes built in wifi to automatically upload photo's to iPhoto, flikr or any number of other sites. For $99 I had to get it.

Neo Code Software has recently provided emergency fxPHP and FileMaker programming for a Government of Canada department. An internal audit had uncovered potential security threats, and we were able to respond quickly helping. Our staff was able to get security clearance, and flew to Victoria to work with staff to address the security issues.

Neo Code Software has introduced the eCard system to over 350 Computer Troubleshooters worldwide as a way for them to send holiday greetings to their customers. The system has been received enthusiastically. For more info about Computer Troubleshooters visit http://www.comptroub.com.

Literacy BC, a non-profit organization supporting literacy programs throughout the province of BC is partnering with Neo Code Software on a second project. Librarian Debbie Monkman has recognized the need for sharing reviews and testing educational resources in the field before recommending them. Neo Code will be building the community collaboration tools necessary to rate, review and report field test results. Literacy practitioners and resource users across British Columbia will have access to this comprehensive system.

Neo Code is hosting the Surnames project for The Vancouver Sun, which is owned by CanWest Global.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/surnames/index.html

This project originally featured a cluster of 4 servers to handle load, and then after 2 weeks, scaled back to a single server.

About CanWest:

CanWest Global Communications Corp.. The Group's principal activities are television broadcasting, publishing, radio broadcasting, specialty cable channels, outdoor advertising and Internet websites. Television Broadcast segment includes broadcast television networks in four countries, specialty channels and two radio stations. The Publishing and Online segment includes Canadian newspaper operations and Internet operations including the canada.com web portal. The Outdoor Advertising segment sells out-of-home advertising. The Radio Broadcast segment consists of radio operations in New Zealand. It has operations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Jan-2006, it acquired Prime TV and on 14-Apr-2006, it acquired Turkish radio stations Super FM, Metro FM, Joy FM and Joy Turk FM.

We took our Order Processing System (OP) as the platform for this project, and customized it to meet the needs of an eCard delivery system. Some of the exciting modifications were:

• NEW FIELD TYPE: file uploads
• NEW FIELD PARAMETERS: height and width
• MULTIPLE PRODUCT IMAGES: comma delimited image list

How the system works:

1. agent logs in to system
2. agent picks eCard graphic
3. agent specifies greeting, custom greeting, their information, and 5 recepients information
4. agent previews the card and sends it

Neo Code Order Processing (OP) now integrates with MoneyWorks DataCentre. After a client places an order in OP, the order is shipped to the DataCentre. What's cooler is that the order can be placed with a iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a Danger SideKick. The integration was done using FTP, AppleScript and the MoneyWorks Commandline interface.