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WebPocketMoney 1.0 released! We are delighted to announce the release earlier this week of WebPocketMoney.com , our cloud based app that enables parents and their children to track and manage pocket money online. A new, sophisticated online tool for parents and children to track and manage pocket money balances This web app has been designed to help parents and children manage pocket money in a user-friendly way that encourages saving. It uses notional accounts  rather than physical accounts (which are often difficult to create for children) and this has the advantage that you can offer your children much higher interest rates (e.g. 5% or 10% per month) than are commonly available in the real world, in order to encourage them to save. The app should work on all internet enabled devices, including phones, tablets and computers. ( NB it requires an internet connection, i.e. it is not currently designed to work offline ) . This means that parents can check their children's

( This article was first posted on 22 Apr 2016 on a different blog site, but migrated here 06 May 2017 ). I thought I'd share a few thoughts from our experience of moving from Windows servers on which both our corporate and client websites and email were stored to the cloud, specifically Office 365 and Microsoft Azure. ​ The process itself was relatively painless (particularly for migrating email to Office 365).  The only problems we experienced were in migrating some older websites, and some webbased software which, for reasons best known to its manufacturer (whose blushes I will spare by not naming here), needed to be installed as a desktop program (albeit one with a web interface).  Both of these needed to be installed on a virtual machine (a windows server within the cloud) rather than as stand alone web apps (or app services as they are now known) in Azure.  We also had a few teething problems moving some databases from SQL Server 2012 or 2014 to SQLAzure, but found sol

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