Recent Contracts
The AMV is a major part of the Queensland contract that we have been working on
for the last 2 years. It is scheduled to be delivered to Queensland Rail
in November 2009 for commissioning and afterwards will be used to monitor and report
on the condition of the QR Network from a point of view of track quality and hightlighting
problem areas. We recently spent around 4 months working on site in Perth,
working on the integration of the software and hardware systems at the clients request
On-board the AMV is a complete computer network with servers and dedicated capture
systems along with sophisticated user workstations that provide the operators with
real-time feedback of the condition of the track. Post-anaylsis of the
track data is performed in the Back Office system which comprises of the application
written by Serco Rail Technologies which we worked on extensively
in the UK. The software work that we are carrying out for the project
ranges from simple applciations for data backup and tools to assist the AMV operators
in day to day usage of the vehicle, to full integration, testing and bug fixing
of the on-board systems and back office software
MyCoastalHome
This was a small website that we were asked to generate quickly for the sale of
a house in Australia. The sale of the house was completed successfully
mid-2009
It is a very simple website, written in plain HTML with CSS and was written within
a day
We've recently started a contract for Queensland Rail, all the way out in Australia. The
contract is to assist in the smooth running of the project that we were involved
with from Serco Rail Technologies.
The core part of the project is a track measurement system designed for the Cairns Tilt Train that runs from Brisbane to Cairns,
but also has many other applications in the rail industry.
Creation of a brand new ASP.NET 2.0 website designed to be the oracle of imformation
for people and families looking at emigrating to Australia.
As with other CodeConsults websites, this one is being designed and built using
ASP.NET master pages, targetted for both IE and Firefox and fully standards compliant. It
also incorporates some neat little screen scraping and AJAX code that actively gets
website content. It is currently, still in development and is targetted
for a Q2 2008 release to the public.
LRS Chauffeurs
Creation of a new ASP.NET 2.0 website for a new up and coming Chauffeur service.
The website was designed and built using ASP.NET master pages which enabled it to
be designed and built well within the client's deadline and budget. The design is
CSS driven so that it works seamlessly on both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
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and we'll work closely with your business to provide you with a quality website
that meets your requirements.
A 6 month contract involved with the creation of C++/C# plug-ins for the display
of track measurements via a third-party visual inspection application for a major
railway supplier abroad.
The writing and interaction of both managed and un-managed code within each plug-in
has been a center point for this contract, due to the visual inspection application
being written solely in C++
In the latter stages of the contract the work has evolved into a pure C# application
integrated with a link node model to represent a rail network for route selection.
The contract also required the updating and performance tuning of a processing application
that takes rail track monitoring files and uploads them to a data store which could
be Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or any other type of database.
Contract involved the creation of a local based aggregation website UKPlus using .NET 2.0 and SQL 2005.
The Website also required the gathering of local based data from a variety of Website/RSS
sources using a Windows Service. The Windows service periodically gathered local
based stories, weather, blogs, news and sport articles. This data was then processed
to fit within a generic database structure so that the data could then be easily
extracted by the front-end system.
SEO and accessibility were a primary concern with this website. From the SEO perspective
this entailed a page based meta-data system that localised the each page's metadata
giving better searchability from the search engines. Clean, human-readable URLs
were adopted to also give better searchability. For accessibility, the website employed
multiple stylesheets that the user could easily switch between.
The contract also involved the initial release of a UK and celebrity based Obituary
site Lasting Tribute
using .Net 2.0, SQL2005, NHibernate and AJAX. This last project was the first project
that the company ran as an Agile Developement Project and used Continuous Integration
software to create automated builds and test scenarios.