The First4 Studio is a leading Northern Ireland web development and cms software development provider. When it comes to software development,
attention to detail is crucial. At The First4 Studio we maintain the
standard cycle of object-oriented application development: create
specification, perform object-oriented analysis (OOA) and
object-oriented design (OOD) with the use of common design patterns and
detailed application testing. Special attention is paid to the
appearance and functionality of our interfaces to ensure a pleasant
user experience.
We develop software in the following areas:
- Client-server
systems (including bookkeeping and warehouse accounting, sales
automation, financial analysis and data visualisation).
- Integrated development environments.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Database conversion between formats.
- .NET development (including development of distributed N-tier systems on .NET XML WebServices).
- Software for mobile devices (GPS, PDA, Tablet PC etc.).
- Porting and updating of existing applications;
- System
utilities (e.g for support of rapid reading from the screen, database
utilities or graphic presentation processing utilities).
Our
broad skillset in this area enables us to develop software for any
application and any industry. Our main development tools include:
- Programming languages: C/C++, C#, SQL (Oracle PL/SQL, Transact SQL, Interbase SQL procedure
and trigger language extension, etc.), XML, SVG, HTML, Assembler,
Fortran, Managed C++, Java, J#, VBA, VB, VB.NET, JavaScript, VBScript,
Perl, bash-script.
- Databases: Oracle 8i, Interbase SQL Server, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres,
Ingres, DB2, Btrieve, Paradox, Visual FoxPro, DBase clones, MS Access,
Clipper.
- Data access: Oracle OCI, MySQL API, BDE (IDAPI), ODBC, DAO, ADO, ADOCE, ADO.NET.
- Operating systems: DOS, MS Windows 9x, MS Windows NT/2000/XP, MS Windows CE, Pocket PC
2000/2002, Palm OS, Unix (SCO, Linux, SunOS, MacOS, QNX, UNIX).
- Development environments: GCC, MS Visual Studio (6 / 7(.NET)), Borland C++ / C++Builder (5 / 6) /
Delphi (1 / 2 / 3 / 7), Watcom C++ 10.x, Visual Basic, UML, Rational
Rose, InstallShield, NSIS, NANT, CVS, MS VSS.
- Libraries: STL, MFC, ATL, VCL, OWL, TurboVision, ACE, expat, Xerces, ImageMagick.
- Technologies and protocols: DDE, OLE, RPC, COM/DCOM, ActiveX, CORBA, IDL, .NET (including .NET XML
WebServices (SOAP, WSDL)), Unix shell programming, socket-based
technologies, multi-threaded programming, POSIX, WinAPI, Win32 API,
Linux system calls, CGI, MS IIS ISAPI filters, TCP/IP, HTTP, Active
Directory, LDAP.
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