Technologies we use

White Wall Web has extensive experience and expertise building web-based applications and systems, using the following technologies:

Ruby on Rails

Ruby is fast establishing itself as one of the most promising dynamic programming languages. With its roots in Agile best practices, Ruby often yields higher productivity than traditional programming languages.

White Wall Web’s dedicated Ruby Team has acquired in‐depth Ruby knowledge and know‐how through numerous successful Ruby implementations, and is excited about the future of this new technology.

Our experience with Ruby has shown proven success in the following areas:

• Applications that make use of AJAX designs
• Build Web‐based applications quickly and efficiently
• Low‐cost internal prototypes and pilot applications
• Enforcing standardisation across complex projects

PHP

PHP is one of the most well‐known, established and supported open‐source programming languages. Originally designed for producing dynamic web pages, PHP is used extensively for creating flexible web‐based applications that save costs on licensing fees (open source) and hosting costs.

PHP has a number of commonly used applications:

• Web-based chat
• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• E‐Commerce, Search Engines
• Mailing Lists
• News Feeds

PHP is also good at taking that data and presenting it in numerous web friendly formats including HTML pages, graphs, spreadsheets, PDFs, XML data feeds and dynamically drawn images.

PHP is one of White Wall Web’s core programming competencies.

ASP.NET (VB & C#)

ASP.NET has emerged as one of the premier web‐based frameworks for mission critical enterprise‐class solutions, and carries the weight of software giant Microsoft behind it. ASP.NET also interfaces seamlessly with other Microsoft software.

Common uses of ASP.NET:

• Intranet based sites
• Large scale ERP systems with web portals
• Back-end enterprise applications
• Web‐based CRM’s

White Wall Web typically uses ASP.NET in conjunction with business analysis to solve complex business problems.

Javascript and Ajax

White Wall Web uses JavaScript (the programming language) and Ajax (a way of programming that incorporates JavaScript and XML) to help businesses with front-end websites that require a high degree of customer interaction to enhance the experience that customers have on the site.

Ajax is used on popular websites such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon to great effect, improving on:

• Time spent waiting for data to be transmitted
• Time spent completing a particular task
• Steps to completing a task
• Bandwidth consumed for the entire task
• Creating more intuitive interfaces