CLEAN, CONTEMPORARY DESIGN & hands-on WEB CONSULTING

Our Experience

Following a list of technologies and tools that we have worked with over the years - this reflects our overall background and spans about 2 decades of experience.

Multimedia: Adobe Flash CS4 including object-oriented scripting; Silverlight 2 / C# or JavaScript; Video integration as Flash or Silverlight player; Apple QuickTime; Windows Media streaming; Codec-handling; REAL-Audio/Video streaming;

Web-Programming: ASP.NET; ASP; C#; PHP; JavaScript; jQuery; DHTML / CSS; (X)HTML; AJAX frameworks MS-AJAX and Adobe SPRY; VB.NET; VBScript; CGI / FastCGI; XML / XSL(T) / DTD / Schemas; Java-Applet; Java-Servlet / Websphere; Coldfusion 7

Programming Languages: C/C#, C#.NET, VB.NET, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0+, PHP, Java, native SQL, LINQ, PL/I, REXX, OS/2-PM (WIN-API), Enfin/2(OO), Word-Macro, VJ++, Assembler, Cobol

Databases (RDBMS):
MS-SQL Server 2008 / 2005 / 2000,
IBM-DB2 Mainframe (Host) and Universal Database
mySQL, MS-Access
Some Details: LINQ, ODBC, ADO.net, T-SQL, StoredProcedures, UDF, DTS, SQL-Language (dynamic and static, transaction-oriented, stored procs), JDBC, SQL-dialects, database design (Entity design/Normalization, Handling/Use of Keys, Index, Triggers, Views, etc.),
Performance tuning

Graphics: Adobe PhotoShop CS4, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe PageMaker 6.5, Corel-Suite and others, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), production experience for web, eBooks, and print (4-color)

Web-Server: Administration Experience for IIS 7.0 , IIS 6.0, IIS 5.0; some Apache

Application-Server: ASP.NET, ColdFusion, JRun4, some WebSphere

Other IT Know-how: Multimedia integration, Website personalization / globalization, shopping cart related design issues, concurrency issues in transactional, networked, multi-user/multi-task environments, security aspects, understanding of email protocols IMAP4/ POP3 as well as the HTTP-protocol, conceptual writing, blueprints, prototyping, documentation standards, methodic testing, CMS systems like WordPress, Joomla!, Community Server

Development Environments: MS-Visual Studio.NET 2008 / 2005 / 2003,
MS Expression Studio 2, MS-Frontpage,
Adobe Creative Suite CS4, CS3, CS2 with Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Coldfusion etc.,

Source Control:
SVN (Subversion and Tortoise GUI), CVS (Win) command line or with Tortoise GUI;
Visual Source Safe 2005
PVCS (former InterSolv or Merant)

Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server (also SBS), 2008 Server, NT 4.0, IBM-OS/2, MS-Windows 95/98, Mac, Redhat Linux/Fedora

LAN: TCP/IP-Intranet, Win2003 Domains, Proxy/Firewall Administration for Win2003, LDAP / AD, DFS, Trusted Forest concept, Legacy nets like: IBM-LAN-Server and MS-LAN-Manager, Banyan-Vines,

Office: MS-Office-Suite, LOTUS-SmartSuite, STAR-Office

Project Control: MS-Visio 2003, dotProject, MS Project 2003, Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Process Model, As-is / To-be analysis and concepts incl. Scope Definition, Estimates, Resource Planning, etc.

Software Engineering/ UML methods/tools:
ISOTEC by CSC-Ploenzke (OO modeling / entity building), MS Project 2003, MS Visio 2003, some Enterprise Architect 4.5 by Sparx Systems (UML Tool)

Mainframe Systems: MVS, DB2, IMS-DB/DC, PL/I, TSO, MFS, BTS, VSAM, 3270 online/batch programming, IBM-Mainframe 309x, and all major programming tools ...

Technologies

Products and technology in our business field is constantly changing and evolving. We are closely monitoring these changes and are evaluating new technologies and their real-world value constantly.
We are utilizing latest software tools and working according to newest Web standards.

Utilized Technology

  • (X)HTML, DHTML, CSS1/2
  • C#/ASP.NET 3.x, 2.0, n-tier Application Design, Object-Oriented Design
  • Web Services
  • Databases: MS SQL-Server 2008 / 2005 / 2000, mySQL, MSAccess etc.
  • XML / XSLT
  • JavaScript, Flash ActionScript (Object-Oriented design), AJAX-Frameworks, jQuery
  • Flash CS4 Design/Scripting, Integration of Video, Forms and Backend connectivity
  • Silverlight 2 / 3 Design & Development, Integration of Video, forms, and backend connectivity

Software Tools

  • Adobe Photoshop CS4
  • Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe Ilustrator CS4
  • Adobe AfterEffects CS4, Adobe Premiere
  • Visual Studio 2008; Adobe Creative Suite CS4 incl. Flash, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Contribute; Microsoft Expression Studio 3; and others...
  • SQL Server 2008 / 2005
  • and more...

Evaluation and Utilization of cutting-edge technologies and industry standards

  • AJAX
  • CSS 3
  • XSLT 2.0, HTML 5
  • Monitoring of markets, Evaluation and comparison of products for Blogs, Forums, Communities
  • and more...

Small- and mid-sized businesses in following fields are our clients since 1996:

Medicine / Physicians
Tourism
Industry
Retail
... please see also our Portfolio

Large companies we worked for in in-house projects (IT consulting, software development) are:

Compaq Computer, Germany
HypoVereinsbank AG, Germany
(CSC)Ploenzke AG, Germany
Allianz, Germany
Audi, Germany
DV-Ratio GmbH, Germany
DHL USA