designsbylareau.com
The professional Internet presence of Brent LaReau and Margaret LaReau, technical consultants.

Specialties

Years of research, design, development, deployment, support and documentation activities have allowed us to build knowledge and experience in many related subject categories. We offer this knowledge and experience to our clients.

Please click on a category heading to obtain full information:

Web Site Design and Development
  • Low-cost sites for small- and medium-sized businesses
  • "Brochure" sites
  • Interactive and timely sites
  • Page layout and graphic image retouching
  • Client- and server-side programming
Embedded Systems, Electronics, Software and Databases
  • Embedded Systems — hardware and software for microcontroller-based devices on up to facility-wide networked systems
  • System architecture — electromechanical devices, computers and software
  • Computers and operating systems — CPU boards, desktop PCs, servers, Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS
  • Software development — web-based, database, embedded control, desktop, utilities
  • Programming languages — Python, JavaScript, C, C++, BASIC, Visual Basic, PHP, PL/SQL, Perl, REXX
  • Software installers ("SETUP.EXE")
  • Software tools — editors, compilers, IDEs, interpreters, debuggers, data converters, plotting software
  • Open source
  • Databases and related topics — SQL, programming, queries, views, PL/SQL, triggers, packages, SQLite, Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle
  • "Data mining", data analysis, plotting and charting
  • Microprocessors and microcontrollers — including custom system design
  • Single-board computers (SBC)
  • Electronics — discretes, ICs, EMI/RFI, ESD, dissipation, ground loops, crosstalk, shielding
Intranet Site and "Knowledge Base" Deployment
  • Corporate intranet "home page" layout and programming
  • Design and development of searchable knowledge bases for enterprise content management
  • Client- and server-side programming for intranet site and knowledge base applications
  • Intranet server hardware and software, possibly within 15 minutes!
Protocols, Communications Media and Network Security
  • Bar codes — symbology, printing, scanning
  • Data interfaces — user, machine, and inter-system
  • File and data formats
  • Data conversion — for files and interfaces
  • Image manipulation — adding, modifying or removing various artifacts from photographs and diagrams
  • Data and network security/privacy — "locking down" system components; closing "holes"; regulatory compliance; foiling crackers and criminals
  • Malware prevention — keeping viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, ransomware and other attack vehicles from getting into computers
  • Communications protocols — EIA/TIA standards, TCP/IP, HL7, UDP, XML, HTTP, Ethernet and more
  • Networking — software libraries, proxies, hubs and switches, CAT5 cables, NICs, drivers, network stacks
  • Packet sniffing and Port scanning
Training and Technical Writing
  • One-on-one mentoring at your facility
  • On-site training classes
  • Technical writing, editing and proofreading
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