History

Blaine's Business Services, Inc. began simply as Blaine's Business Services, a sole proprietorship by our founder, Blaine Hilton. Blaine has always been running some kind of enterprising or entrepreneurial activity as a kid. He started a software based calculator as a high school project. This calculator started as a Visual Basic program that was a required project and evolved into a complex tool that could solve numerous problems.

When Blaine realized there could be a large market for this tool he decided to try commercializing it. During this time he realized the problems of piracy on the smaller independent software vendors (ISVs). So instead of going through much hassle and expense of trying to protect the software from high school students just burning copies of the program he decided to try another form of distribution: the World Wide Web.

During this time, Blaine converted the calculator from its original client based software that required Windows to run and to be installed on the computer to a web based system programmed in the PHP scripting language. This platform allowed for the free use of the calculators to the public. This calculator can currently be found at www.webcalc.net (Stay tuned for version 2.0 to be called Calcenstein and will be available the 1st quarter of 2007).

After initial success with the calculator Blaine started to do freelance web site design projects. Preferring to work on the back end of web site projects with the coding and database sub systems Blaine also worked extensively in web application development for the past three years.

Recently, Blaine has expanded by incorporating the business, hiring additional staff, and moving into a larger office to better serve our growing client base.

Blaine has passed down to his staff more than a decade of experience using DOS, Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. He is also skilled in implementing software solutions using VB, PHP, XHTML, CGI, and mySQL.