Rush Flat Consulting

Welcome to Rush Flat Consulting!


Rush Flat Consulting is run by Brian Speirs.

Brian was Chief Economist for Meat & Wool New Zealand for 15 years, and formed Rush Flat Consulting in 2004. Consulting work was put on hold in 2006 when Brian went to work with the NZ Institute of Economic Research.

Now, Brian has moved to the UK, and is working with CACI in their Twickenham office.

In the mean time, this website still has some useful information. In particular, see the links to agri-business, economic, and computing resources, and also the software downloads for multi-value databases.

NEW - Building an HTPC

This is something that has interested me for a while. I haven't built one yet ... but you can read my thoughts about what would suit me - and being the economist - whether it is worthwhile.

Getting Started in OpenQM

Part 2 of Getting Started in OpenQM is now available! This covers programming in QMBasic, with particular emphasis on using the AccuTerm GUI environment.While this is nominally about using OpenQM, it will be useful for learning programming in any of the multi-value databases, and for learning how to program using AccuTerm.

This follows on from Part 1 of Getting Started in OpenQM released in 2008. This covered installation, configuration, a brief introduction to the editors available, and a comprehensive introduction to QMQuery.

Both of these publication aim to answer the question that is frequently raised in the multi-value database forums: "Where is the documentation telling me how to use this software?"

Installing the GPL version of OpenQM on Ubuntu

Linux is (supposed to be) easy isn't it? For the mere mortals amongst us, I have written up some notes on how to install the GPL version of OpenQM on Ubuntu 7.10. This has now been updated to include Ubuntu 8.04, and installing the QMClient and QMSrvr services. See the downloads page for more information.

SysCtrl Account v1.10

SysCtrl is a control account for multi-value databases. It incorporates previous utilities offered here such as 'IA.Reformat', File-Dump, and Import. SysCtrl is now at version 1.10 and now includes utilities letting you transfer accounts between multi-value databases. See the downloads page for more details.

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