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:

Embedded Systems, Electronics, Software and Databases

• Embedded Systems — hardware and software design for standalone devices or facility-wide networked systems
• System architecture — including electromechanical devices, computers and software
• Computers and operating systems — CPU boards, desktop PCs, servers, Windows, Linux, DOS
• Virtual machines — VMWare and others
• Software development — web-based, database, embedded control, desktop, utilities
• Programming languages — Python, JavaScript, C, C++, BASIC, Visual Basic, PHP, PL/SQL, Perl, REXX
• Software installation wizards ("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

Information Security, Protocols, and Communications Media

• Information security (InfoSec) — "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
• 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

Training and Technical Writing

• One-on-one mentoring at your facility
• On-site training classes
• Technical writing, editing and proofreading

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!

Web Site Design and Development

• Web sites for small- and medium-sized businesses
• "Brochure" sites
• Interactive and timely sites
• Page layout and graphic image retouching
• Client- and server-side programming