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At Creative Dreaming we build Web Applications!

From simple websites through to complete business management systems we can provide the solution to your needs. We will work with you to provide the best solution for your circumstances meeting your objectives.

Solutions that might be of interest include:

  • Static Sites
  • Content Managed Sites
  • Online Business Solutions such as Shops and Subscription Services
  • Bespoke Business System Solutions


From data management to client interaction a web application is an affordable bespoke software solution that could benefit your business. See our services page for more details.

We are active in the development community and share our knowledge and experience through our articles page.

We are located in Wellington, New Zealand and have a client base in the United Kingdom. We do of course consider work from anywhere in the world.

Browse our site, explore the options we provide and please feel very free to contact us to see how we can help you.

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Author: Dale Created: Thursday, January 11, 2007
This blog will be used for the purpose of communicating news and discussing technical solutions that we feel might be of interest.
WordPress on Windows
By Dale on Saturday, January 16, 2010
A couple of tips on installing WordPress on Windows.
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AJAX / YUI
By Dale on Friday, January 16, 2009
Points of interest I've come across integrating AJAX(YUI) with my apps.
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General IT Comments
By Dale on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Extracting files from MSI package.
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Employment Opportunities
By Dale on Tuesday, April 22, 2008
We currently have an opening for a web developer. If you are interested please email us with your CV and examples of your work.
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MS SQL Server 2000/2005 Tips & Tricks
By Dale on Thursday, January 10, 2008
A place to keep bits and pieces of useful information relating to MS SQL Server including SQL Country Table Script.
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UK Hosting - Ideal for DotNetNuke (DNN) or ASP.NET + SQL Server 2005 Express
By Dale on Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Hosting is available for a limited number of sites on one of our UK dedicated servers. Its a windows 2003 box with a very small number of sites on the box. Perfect for hosting DotNetNuke (DNN) or any other ASP.NET site that uses SQL Server 2005 Express as the backend. Being dedicated means we can customise any settings such as the IIS extensions etc. Please contact us for more details.
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Development Resources
By Dale on Monday, October 01, 2007
Resources that we've found useful.
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Check out the Castle Project
By Dale on Sunday, September 30, 2007
Ruby on Rails for .net! Castle in an open source project that provides a set of tools to simplify development in .net. I used Castle Monorail which provides an MVC framework and Castle ActiveRecord which provides a data mapper.
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MS Reporting Services
By Dale on Thursday, July 26, 2007

Divide by zero: I had an odd experience today when I tried to prevent a divide by zero by using the IIF statement e.g. =IIf(Term2 <> 0, Term1/Term2, 0) however it appears to try and evaluate 'Term1/Term2' even if it 'Term2 = 0' very strange - so I had to use another IIf statement to ensure that a valid computation happens even though it will never be used e.g. =IIf(Term2 <> 0, Term1/(IIf(Term2 <> 0, Term2, 1), 0).

IIf revisited: OK - so now I understand a bit more about VB I've found out that the IIf statement always evaluates both expressions and then returns one of them. The previous *hack* didn't help when it came time to try and display a parameter which could be null (Nothing). The solution it seems was to write a small function which is embedded in the report. This is done on the Report/Parameters/Code tab. And there is no support for debugging your code so g ...

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.NET Notes
By Dale on Thursday, April 05, 2007
A post to keep track of interesting bits of information regarding .NET development. Latest notes on backing up SQL Server 2005 databases from .NET code and creating / managing compressed filed from .NET code.
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