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I found a Viliv S5 on my desk this morning to play with – our bright new hope in the field of wireless device solutions.

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Hello my avid readers

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Last week was spent attempting to get as much room out of the touch sale screen as possible. We made as many buttons line up as possible, and allowed for one of the product pad pages to be shown in the centre of the sale screen. This gives the user heaps of space to place as many button as they wish on the sale screen.

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In a world that is gradually becoming nearly exclusively plug and play, POS hardware has yet to catch up. A scarily large majority of affordable hardware I have to deal with is still using RS-232 communication, the antithesis of plug and play.

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Recently, we’ve had a complaint regarding PCEFTPOS. The issue was that sometimes the PCEFTPOS screen would flash the word ‘approved’ on the screen, and then disappear. The entire sale would disappear as well.

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Hello readers

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Personally, I find the amount of problems you can easily foresee when coming up with a plan inversely correlates with how simply the plan is executed. In short, the jobs that look the simplest on paper turn out to be the ones that give the most headaches.

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One of our largest clients has requested a new feature for their fuel stations. This feature is recording odometer readings for customers.

The way this works, is that a customer can be flagged as allowing odometer readings. If this flag is turned on, then they will be asked for the following when that customer is selected:

• The vehicle that is being driven
• The driver of the vehicle

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We believe that we have made a breakthrough on the fuel slowdown issue.

While running the automated tests, we recorded which methods from the fuel interface were being called. From this information, we created a new automated test that only calls these methods from the fuel interface in the same order as they are called during the normal test.

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As part of the enhancements for the fuel module, to make it work faster, we decided to put the fuel audit printing and auto-stacking into a separate thread. This sounds relatively simple, but there were a few issues to deal with. The main one was that talking to the enabler (the fuel system interface we use) does not work when called from another thread.

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