Software Development

We undertake both long and short term consultancy and programming contracts. We can quote for fixed-price consultancy work undertaken from our UK office in Hampshire, England, or on-site services working directly with your staff at an hourly or daily rate. We have access to a team of other experts that we can call on if the job requires skills we do not possess in-house.

We specialise in C++ and Visual C++ development under the Win32 platform (ie. Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP) and WinCE (Pocket PC, Windows CE, etc.).
We predominantly use Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 for development.

Our in-house skills and experience also include:

• STL / Standard Library
• the boost library
• template meta-programming and generic programming
• MFC
• ActiveX
• COM
• XML
• "Design Patterns" as advocated by Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Vlissides.
• Multi-threading under Win32
• SQL / relational database, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL.
• OOA/D (Object-Oriented Analysis and Design) using UML.
• Web development using HTML, ASP, PHP, server-side COM objects and JavaScript.
• Version control software such as CVS / WinCVS / CVSNT, Subversion, Perforce, SourceSafe, PVCS and StarTeam.

We have extensive experience in developing bespoke multi-threaded applications, including several multi-threaded TCP/IP sockets-based Client-Server systems.