Clive Roberts worked as the lead developer on a VB6 project to deliver a front-end application to Local Government. Councillors used the application during their `surgeries` with the public to record details of the meetings, take actions including diary integration. Based on the outcome of these actions the application would integrate seamlessly with Office XP generating letters, faxes and emails based on standardised templates. The application had to be secure and ensure that the confidential material contained was stored and processed in a secure manner.
This application had to be `self-teaching` and include help and advice tips so that any councillor or local government worker could walk up and use the application with no training.

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Record Players were commonly used more than a generation ago. Some people have them today too. These include people who have either inherited them or have purchased them from music shops that still sell old Record Players. Record Players are typically known to play records that were most commonly 33s or 45s, which referred to the record size to be played. Record Players were also of different shapes and sizes. While you could obtain a fairly cheap one to make do with, you could get very costly ones. Today, it is quite hard to locate Record Players, as there are very few people who have held on to them.