Once you are registered for VAT, sending in your returns every three months can be a bit of a daunting task, especially if you’re not keeping strict electronic records on a regular basis.

I’ve blogged about various online accounting packages before, but if you want to keep track of your company’s finances, and make your VAT returns effortless, KashFlow is the way to go.

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Ning is pants. Google groups are pretty pants.

Each offer a useful set of limited features, but if you’re trying to create a dynamic community, your creativity will hit the limits of their capabilities fairly quickly.

What should a complete modern social network look like? A social network is a collection of people with something in common to bind the group together. This could be an interest, it could be their employer, etc.

But what features should the modern social network offer, and does it exist as an out-of-the-box software package or hosted solution?

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If you followed along in part 1 of this article, you will have downloaded and installed Netbeans 6 to get a complete Ruby development environment. You should also have prototyped a web design idea, added some dynamic code to it, and got cosy with Ruby by implementing a small standalone application.

In this article, we’ll learn a few more techniques to help you build the next big thing for the web.

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