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Consulting Services

While active-code is open to discussing custom requirements necessitated by your project, our strength lies in providing the following services.

Technical Review

Consider having an objective, outside expert review your project before investing in a dead-end path. With our years of experience, we will help steer you accurately and avoid time and resource intensive missteps. By tracking Microsoft's promises against the status of their current beta software, we can uniquely help you decide whether to adopt their latest technology or wait until it has matured and been proven in the market before incorporation in your product. As important is providing assistance to internal staff who may not have worked with particular facets of Windows software.

Design

A decade ago, most software was not designed, but more or less thrown together. Today the field has significantly matured with the general adoption of the Unified Software Development Process. Use-case driven, architecture-centric, iterative, and incremental are the new bywords. Providing a new standardized vocabulary of terms and procedures, designs that incorporate the Unified modeling Language (UML) are less likely to face major oversights - and to more rapidly recover since change is a necessary and planned for part of the system.

We use UML and find that it is the best way to precisely communicate about software.

Contract Programming

We are experienced coders and take great pride in finding innovative ways to implement a particular design goal. Our code is unusually robust and - by delivery - is surprisingly free of bugs. We aim to document the software well, assuming that maintenance programmers (often at a junior level), will be adding new features in the future and will need to understand the overall purpose of the module or assembly - as well as the particular routine. By adding in considerable debug code, it is generally simple and reasonably efficient to locate problems when the software is injected into new environments.

Contact us to discuss our current availability and for a quote on your particular needs.