Do you have a great idea for a program, but don't know how to get from an idea to a finished product? Perhaps you have a product in development, but you aren't happy with how it is turning out. We can help. We can work with you to design a product from scratch or redesign a product in or after development.
We have designed or redesigned products such as email clients, Outlook Add-ons, an autoresponder and a web-based problem tracking system.
Here are some examples of our work:
ContactsToFM, a utility to synchronize the Contacts folder in MS Outlook 2000 and a FileMaker Pro database. Developed with Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ 6. Utilizes ADO, ODBC, SQL and ActiveX. Has many options to allow for mapping of fields between Contacts and database, the running of FileMaker Pro scripts, and the utilization of lock files to coordinate between the utility and FileMaker Pro. This project is currently under development.
Emma, a Win32 client for MCI Mail. Emma is a fully functional email client with an MDI interface, background communications, a spell checker, signatures, an address book, nested folders and support for up to 10 mail accounts. We did substantial design and development work on Emma, using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0/6.0, MFC 4.0/4.2, and Borland C++ 4.5.
PostNews, a Win32 console utility for posting articles to newsgroups. Created using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and 6.0. Utilizes the NNTP protocol (RFC 977) over TCP/IP by writing to WinSock via the WSA API.
NewsList, a Win32 console utility for retrieving a list of newsgroups carried by a news server. Created with MS VC++ 5.0. Uses NNTP over TCP/IP.
Created a lightweight user interface for a pending product from Pete Maclean. It was developed with Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and the Win32 API. Its slim memory footprint results from the avoidance of bulky frameworks like MFC.
Developed custom Microsoft Outlook forms for Outsmart Messenger using VBScript.
We developed a MAPI address converter using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and CDO 2.0 for Pete Maclean. It converts Personal Address Book (PAB) entries in the MCI Mail Enabler format to the MAPI standard STMP format.
executiveONE Mailer (a custom version of the MCI Mail Enabler). The MCI Mail Enabler is a MAPI transport for MCI Mail. The executiveONE Mailer was created to suit the needs of MCI WorldCom's senior executives. We functioned as the liaison between management and the programmer, turning the former's general ideas into a design specification that could be implemented on time an within budget.
MCI Mail's Info Server is a custom autoresponder designed to suit the needs of MCI Mail Customer Support. It can handle up to 10 email accounts, each one with up to 200 rules/topics. InfoServer can process over 10,000 requests per hour. It runs under MS-DOS 6.2 on a 386SX 25 PC with 8 megs of RAM. It was developed with Borland C++ 4.5.