Being spoofed right now. Very annoying. Anyone who receives an email from a circa82.co.uk address: it’s junk unless it comes from michael.austin. Hopefully it’s a one off, but with spoofing I don’t think there’s a way of me actually stopping it, as it’s easy to do in a lot of email clients. Tell me if I’m wrong

We came across a problem today where 123-reg wouldn’t allow us to update the nameservers for a clients domain. The error “*nameserver* doesn’t exist in the registry” would always appear. Previously we hadn’t any problems with updating the nameservers in 123-reg, so it was a bit perplexing. The nameservers were our own which pointed towards our latest rig.

After a bit of fooling around, we came to the conclusion it must be something to do with the clients domain being .com and our nameservers being .co.uk. After doing a bit more research we found a possible solution, albeit one that we didn’t think would work.

The Solution: We updated the nameservers for an alternative .com domain that was hosted with NameCheap. Once this had been done we gave 123-Reg another try. Lo and Behold 123’s system allowed us to update the nameservers for the previously problematic domain. From what other people have been saying this will work when using either NameCheap or GoDaddy (and possibly others).

Sorry for the shortcomings of the blog over the last few months (says he to himself).

Here’s a recap of the last few months (well most of it). This is quite long and uninteresting, but should waste a few minutes.

• We’ve been working on a “hush hush” project for the National Lottery. We’ll be able to reveal a bit more in a few months time.
• The first release of GigReflex, (the web application produced by Circa82 and web dev guru Greg Gigon) has gone live. It’s in a very basic form at the moment, but we’re working hard towards the next release.
• Circa82 has started representing some larger design agencies. We handle the majority of the agencies web work and go along for meetings and the like. The usual “your soul is mine” agreements are in place, so we’ll leave it at that.
• A meeting was held with long term client SBK Healthcare about how to improve their web architecture and general setup. It was a vvvvveeeeerrrrrrrryyyyyy constructive meeting as both sides got their points across which wasn’t always possible on the phone. The meeting was held in a country pub, with Mike (Circa82), Sarah (SBK), Amelia (SBK) and the SBK guard dog. Watch out for some major updates soon.
• The BPM Logic site was designed and developed. This will be added to the portfolio section shortly.
• Circa82 has taken a keen interest in the CMS Silverstripe. A few concepts are in place to utilise the technology (a very good one at that) and will be put into production during September.
• Accounting. We hate it but it’s got to be done (plus we haven’t found an accountant that we want to use). It’s good thing we’ve done the basics though, as we will review any future accountants work thoroughly.
• Two friends of ours have setup their own companies/services.
  • Firstly there is James Godbold the .NET guru, who works under the name Dr Nuke. They specialise in DNN site production and general ASP.NET. You can find their products and services available for sale at SnowCovered.
  • Next up Simon Bowles who has setup Blue Jay Designs Ltd that specialise in niche printing services and art selling. It’s very much in it’s infancy and the site is being optimised as we speak.
• Circa82 visited the excellent @media conference, a review will be posted up shortly.
• Lot’s of general updates for clients and a whole load of new books on AS3, CSS and vector illustration.