Technologies we love (and hate)

Over the years we have embraced, adopted and occasionally rejected (for various reasons) a wide range of technologies, environments, development platforms and frameworks.

Given free rein and with no special use case in mind our standard choice is pretty much 'the' standard... LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). This most popular open source 'stack' is mature, secure, fast, widely supported (by bother developers and hosting companies) and simple. It lends itself to rapid development, is both easily scaleable and capable far beyond most needs cases.

For more esoteric applications (or simply for legacy support) we also undertake development in and / or support the following SQL and noSQL database platforms:

MongoDB - the document orientated nosql

MS SQL - Microsoft's RDMS

MS Access - Microsoft's RAD 'db'

PostgreSQL - that other opensource thingy

DynamoDB - Amazon's cloud based scaleable MySQL equivalent

Oracle - Sun's very grown up offering

Cassandra - the high perfomance nosql used by Twitter et al

CouchDB - JSON orientated scaleable nosql

SQLLite - small fast embedable SQL

'Languages' we work in include:

PHP (but we said that)

Javascript

HTML, XHTML, HTML5

Perl

ASP (classic & .NET)

Actionscript

C, C++, C#

Pascal (OOP, Delphi, etc.)

Visual Basic (VB, VBS, VBA)