We've completed dozens of projects for a wide range of clients, both as Sephira Software and as developers at the University of Texas. Take a look at what we've done. Each square inch of this page represents hundreds of hours of hard work and dedication.
Over the last five years, we've seen a lot. We developed a website for the restaurant business. We helped a professor create a dragonfly research site. We've translated algorithms from MatLab to Java. We developed our own web application framework from scratch.
We've developed systems for animated greeting cards, social networking, professional networking, online courses, scheduling, appointments, calendaring, sports predictions, search engines and people directories, real estate listings, and financial recordkeeping. We've automated business processes for the nation's largest university, assisted with government research, and developed proof of concept communities, aggregators, and SVG visualization tools.
We've customized open source content management systems and bulletin boards. We've developed web applications for scheduling and onling gaming. Built a Multi-User Dungeon? Yep, we've done that too. We've even mastered buzzwords like Ajax and Web 2.0. It's all there. You name it. We can do it.
Portfolio
Jason's Deli
In Fall 2007, we worked with Brains on Fire (an identity company based in Greenville, SC) to create a new website for Jason's Deli. The site is powered by Drupal, an open source content management system that we customized to work with data from OrderTalk, an online ordering system. Couple this with some beautiful graphics from Brains on Fire, and you've got one of the best restaurant websites in the world.
Mashfest
We are currently working on building Mashfest, which aims to be the best site dedicated to music festivals on the web. The goal is to make it easy to access and post photos, videos, and lineups for every major music festival ever held! It's still in development, but check it out!
Stratos Framework
In 2006 we released Stratos, an object-oriented web application framework that features Ajax integration with Dojo, object-relational mapping, a built in authorization system, and a web based control panel so that you don't have to edit a single line of XML. How do you think we built all of these applications so fast? Oh yeah, you can use it too. Download it for free.
GeeGuides
Durango, Colorado based GeeGuides develops interactive art education systems designed to provide children with the tools necessary to understand, interpret, enjoy, and create art. GeeGuides is run by some folks who worked on Disney films like Mulan, Lilo and Stich, The Lion King, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast. We've assisted the creative minds at GeeGuides with several projects, like this electronic greeting card creator.
OdonataCentral
In 2007, we relearned our Biology so we could help Dr. John C. Abbott develop a new version of OdonataCentral, which he describes as a A Model for the Web-based Delivery of Natural History Information and Citizen Science. Ever wanted to plot the species distribution for Acanthagrion quadratum with the Google Maps API? With OdonataCentral, you can.
AdGrad
Does Facebook not meet your needs? Ever needed your own social networking site? We've built one from scratch. In 2006, we helped the UT College of Advertising create a social and professional networking site for alumni. The site empowers alumni by letting them easily network, post resumes, portfolios, job referrals, and keep in touch after graduation.
CHIP Counseling System
CHIP is a web application career counseling management system. It provides interfaces for accessing client demographic information, scheduling counseling and outreach sessions, viewing employee counseling and outreach schedules, tracking appointments, writing case notes, and a built-in, customizable listserv e-mailer.
Student Community
Back before MySpace and Facebook even existed, Joshua and Larry developed a web application to allow students at the University of Texas at Austin to sell and exchange items, discuss campus issues, and review apartments, bars, and restaurants. We modified phpBB, an open source bulletin board system, to work with UT EID authentication, UTDirect, and Oracle.
University of Texas Directory
If you ever studied or worked at the University of Texas, you've probably used this thousands of times. Need to find someone affiliated with UT? Type in all or part of someone's name, UT EID, or email address into the box, and the UT Directory gives you everything else. Not at a computer? Need to invite someone to lunch, but you don't have their number? No problem. Just use it from your phone.
You Called It
That's nice, but what about sports? Before the 2006 college football season, we developed a cool site to allow sports fans to compete for prizes by guessing the final scores of college football games. We wanted to find out whether there is any wisdom in crowds or whether being a fan of a particular team affects your predictions. It turns out that football fans see the world through insert-school-color-tinted glasses.
Faculty Staff Directory
The UT Directory is nice, but the Jackson School of Geosciences wanted a customized version just for them. So we gave them what they wanted. Their version is limited to JSG faculty and staff, and is browseable by letter or administrative unit.
Longhorn Living
Ever needed to find student housing? It can be tough. That's why we created Longhorn Living, a site that helps students at UT-Austin find great deals on apartments and campus-area dorms.
Grad School Financial Database
When you're in charge of funding hundreds of Geology graduate students, and the students are different every semester, sometimes Excel alone doesn't cut it. That's why we created a web application that allows Jackson School administrators to keep track of their financial records. We even integrated the web application with the University's mainframe data, so student academic information is updated automatically.
AISD Placement System
Excel also isn't the best technology choice for enabling dozens of coordinators to place students into teaching positions at the hundreds of elementary and middle schools in the Austin Independent School District. That's why we created the Student-Teacher placement system, which makes it as easy as clicking a button.
COE Scholarship Application
Who fills out a paper application for scholarships anymore? Not students in the College of Education. Josh developed an application that provides all students from within the COE and the College of Liberal Arts the ability to submit a scholarship application online. The application provides authorized COE staff with the ability search, review, print, and approve scholarship applications.
Grants.gov
Grants.gov is a centralized suite of services that provides a simple, unified electronic storefront for interactions between grant applicants and the Federal agencies that manage grant funds. These grant services are offered and accessed by means of a web service. Josh helped create a proof-of-concept application that integrates with the published web service methods from Grants.gov.
Online Academic Services
Back in the old days, you had to fill out a paper form to apply for graduation. You also had to see an academic advisor in person to discuss what courses you would take. Not anymore. Students in the College of Education, Jackson School of Geosciences, and College of Fine Arts can do this online, thanks to a suite of academic services that Larry created in 2006.
Job Network Visualization
The University mainframe has many batch jobs that run overnight. They are large, complicated, and have many dependencies. That's why Larry helped create a proof-of-concept visualization tool to graphically portray these job networks using SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Who says you don't use recursion in the real world?
Fitness Buddies
Ever needed a jogging partner, but didn't know how to find one? This novel website helps people who are interested in exercise and fitness meet up with one another. We developed a custom solution for managing the fitness articles on the site, and integrated vBulletin with the site's look and feel.
Texas Agricultural Research DB
Established by the 77th Texas Legislature in 2001, the purpose of the Texas Agricultural Research Database is to enhance communication about agricultural research in the State of Texas from research facilities to interested members of other research institutions, private industry, and the general public. If you spend a lot of time on this site, you will learn a lot about cotton and boll weevils.
RSS Aggregator
RSS is nice, but which feeds are worth subscribing to? This RSS aggregator was created to allow people to read about what's new in higher education from a variety of sources, all in one place.
LTC Timeclock
Suppose you are the manager of several computer labs that are scattered all over a large university campus. You employ dozens of part-time student workers who proctor these labs. And they don't work for free, so you have to pay them by the hour. How do you keep track of their schedules and how many hours they worked? How about a web-based timeclock and scheduling system that allows your employees to clock-in remotely from any lab?
Holdem Tools
Holdem Tools is a web based Texas Holdem odds calculator. The front end was created using PHP and JavaScript, while the backend is powered by the poker-eval library, which is written in C. For the drag-and-drop cards, we made use of the scriptaculous library. Want to have your own personal odds calculator? Holdem Tools is an open source project. You can download it for free.
