Areas of Expertise

Since we were first introduced into the computer age in the early 60's a lot has happened. We've tried many different approaches to developing systems and applications. Some worked and some did not. Below we list some of the surviving methods and the types of applications we have applied them to. Also, of course, is the obligatory list of languages, support tools, hardware and operating systems we've worked with.

Analysis and Design Methodologies we use

Object-oriented analysis and design, structured analysis and design, top down, bottom up(estimation), rapid application development, computer-aided software engineering, information engineering (business area analysis, business systems definition, data modeling).

Some representative Applications areas

Information systems, mainframe/micro communications, Email systems, database design, man-machine interface, air traffic control, computer system performance measurement and analysis, automated document generation, automatic code generation, affinity/cluster analysis, WEB sites, WEB scraping, language design, real-time data acquisition, digital terrain and imaging (maps, perspective views, radar simulation), graphics/plotting, simulation systems, operating systems, application frameworks.

A smattering of System Development and support Tools

Ada, C, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Smalltalk, Pascal, SQL, FORTRAN, PL/I, JOVIAL, Advanced Revelation Basic, Oracle, Sybase, Gupta SQL Windows, MS Access, dBase, Information Engineering Workbench, Information Engineering Facility, Teamwork, Software Thru Pictures, Digitalk PARTS, MS Project, Visual InterDev, Dekker Trakker, COCOMO, CoStar, AutoCAD.

Hardware/Operating Systems we've grown to love and hate

Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, IBM 360/xx, 370/xx, 33xx, 43xx, 9020, Q31, PC/XT/AT/386/486/Pentium, AS/400, Data General, Control Data, Tandem, Sun, Macintosh, Interdata, IBM MVS/MFT/VM, OS/400, OS/2, MS/DOS, Unix, Scope, GCOS, RTOS.