Jamie Imms's Blog

If you’re looking expanding the use of Amicus, then this might interest you. We’ve got our hands on a Bixolon SPP-R200 and gave it a whirl. It’s basically a mobile thermal printer that connects to its host via Bluetooth.

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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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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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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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Ever since joining the support team here at Neotechnology full time, there’s starting to become a certain familiarity with the almost-ironic pain that follows after spending too much time on a problem stemming from job that should take you 10 seconds.

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Due to the nature of a Point of Sale system, certain areas need stress testing (although it is not comparable to the loading of something like a website).

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It was a long, but necessary two years as a software testing engineer before I was given a position as head support and implementations officer. I say necessary because there is no better way of learning Amicus POS than using it all day, every day for an extended period of time.

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