Hi and Welcome to GroovyCart !
My name is David Strachan. GroovyCart is the onward development of my final year computing degree course project taken at West Hertfordshire College, Watford, UK.
I had the idea for a generic on-line shop aimed at small businesses back in October 2006 and created a small working prototype for my final year project.
Since leaving college, I decided there was a gap in the market and to turn the idea into a business. In October 2007, the whole family got involved, with my father joining me. He has been working in the computing industry for nearly 30 years and started programming back in the days of punched-cards and paper-tape. For the last 10 years he was a software project manager and is now enjoying getting back to the technical-side of software development.
We've been attending the Business Link courses to get advice on the business start-up front.
It's a small family business based in the Hertfordshire town of Tring.
The software has been mostly developed on Apple Mac computers. The software runs on our own server, which is an Apple G5 Xserve running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It is written in PHP and MySQL, although we are exploring future technologies.
The software has been mostly developed on Apple Mac computers. The software runs on our own server, which is an Apple G5 Xserve running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It is written in PHP and MySQL, although we are exploring future technologies.
In April 2008 GroovyCart was registered as a limited company.
In April 2008 we finished the website trial and launched the website as a commercial business.
If you would like to know more, you are welcome to contact me at david@groovycart.co.uk
David Strachan