Company News

Happy New Year

2012-01-13T15:42:57Z

The year has kicked off to a very busy start for us with lots of work from our secretive Online Gaming Company. They're doing a lot of work to enhance the product that we've helped them build so that it can run well in cloud environments for their clients and also form the core of their cloud-based service. Much of our current work for them is to do with server to server communications so that they can build a scalable system that can use resources in the cloud to grow on demand. We've been working with them on aspects of this for some time now and it's all starting to come together nicely. Additionally we've recently added WebSockets support to their server so that they can easily support a new breed of browser based clients.

We're also excited about working more closely with our Industrial Control Client who are sponsoring us for SC level security clearance so that we can get more involved with their systems; if we told you any more we'd have to kill you...

We've had more fixed price work for our Custom Electronics Manufacturer, adding SChannel based SSL support to their server. This server allows thousands of embedded devices to connect to their central servers to upload logs and download firmware.

We've still been too busy to do much work on the LockExplorer website but there's an update to the tools scheduled for the end of the month to include all of the recent changes and fixes that have been applied whilst we've been 'dog fooding' them with our clients and on The Server Framework's build machines.

Finally, we already have several releases planned for The Server Framework this year; watch this space!

Where is the year going...

2011-09-01T11:08:43Z

September already...

We've spent much of the time since the last Company News update working with our super secretive Online Gaming company to make their product even better.

We've also been updating The Server Framework's WebSocket support for a couple of new Server Framework clients and generally improving performance for the 6.5 release of The Server Framework which is due real soon now.

In addition we've launched the LockExplorer website, but, to be honest, we've been too busy with The Server Framework to do all the writing and evangelising that we have planned for the existing LockExplorer tools, let alone finish the more advanced tools. Still, things are starting to calm down a little, so watch this space!

Fixed-price server development for a Custom Electronics Manufacturer

2011-02-28T14:00:00Z

We are building a server for a custom electronics manufacturer who would prefer to remain nameless. The server will manage communication and firmware updates for networks of thousands of smart devices using The Server Framework.

Website update

2011-01-13T12:45:59Z

As you can see, we've updated the JetByte web site and integrated it into our product site for The Server Framework and Len's, Rambling Comments, programming blog. We've also got a new logo which we had developed for us as part of a logo design competition that we ran on 99designs.com.

The site is now managed using Movable Type rather than the custom content management system that we had written for us in 2001. The new site should be much more flexible and easier to manage.

Ongoing development projects for our Industrial Control client

2010-04-01T11:00:00Z

Our Industrial Control Client has engaged us to continue with several pieces of work for them on an ongoing basis.

Ongoing development projects for our Online Gaming client

2010-01-01T12:00:00Z

Once again, our Online Gaming Client has engaged us to continue developing the C++ side of their server system for them on an ongoing basis.

This is to support new functionality and to aggressively improve existing performance.

Fixed-price CLR hosting project

2009-11-01T12:00:00Z

We're working with VEXIS Systems Inc. again to extend the high performance pluggable server platform that we built for them back in 2008 using The Server Framework.

This time around we're adding to the plugin system within the server so that it can host plugins written in .Net managed code. The server now hosts a instance of the CLR, using The Server Framework's CLR Hosting Option, and we have built a managed plugin system that integrates with the existing unmanaged system so that now they can write their business logic in either unmanaged code or in a managed language such as C#.

Updating ISO8583 servers

2009-03-30T11:00:00Z

PayPoint has engaged us to update the ISO8583 transaction servers that we have built for them over the years to the latest version of The Server Framework.

They're keen to take advantage of the free updates that you get with The Server Framework but don't have anyone in house to apply the diffs and adjust the code.

Consultancy for SSL client development

2009-02-25T12:00:00Z

We're working with GSI Labs to help them build their mobile data call simulator that uses The Server Framework.

Fixed-price server development for ELTAV

2009-01-02T12:00:00Z

We've been engaged to build the initial version of a smart valve monitoring server for Eltav using The Server Framework.

Len will kick start their team's development by putting together a custom server shell which deals with the basics of their requirements and will introduce their developers to The Server Framework's code.

Ongoing development projects for our Online Gaming client

2009-01-01T12:00:00Z

Our Online Gaming Client has engaged us to continue developing the C++ side of their server system for them on an ongoing basis.

This is to support new functionality and to aggressively improve existing performance.

New fixed-price ISO-8583 transaction server development project

2008-09-01T11:00:00Z

We're building another ISO-8583 transaction server for PayPoint using The Server Framework.

New fixed-price development project

2008-08-01T11:00:00Z

We're working with VEXIS Systems Inc. to build a high performance TCP/IP server system using The Server Framework. The server provides a vendor neutral, scalable, high performance client/server framework for event monitoring, data aggregation, and backend system integration for the telephony industry.

The server provides a pluggable framework allowing each "plugin" DLL to manage its own resources with respect to various backend systems and call center equipment.

Short term contract based at our Guildford office for Lloyds TSB

2007-12-01T12:00:00Z

We're building an Excel Addin (XLL) for Lloyds TSB which allows further addin functionality to be written as managed code (e.g. in C#).

This project is being run on a "time and materials" basis from our Guildford office and we've negotiated to keep the IP rights of the underlying managed XLL shell for possible later resale or use in a product.

Reliable UDP for the Online Gaming industry

2007-06-01T11:00:00Z

We've been engaged by an Online Gaming Company that is using The Server Framework to refactor and redesign their reliable UDP implementation, based on ENet, so that it's more efficient and performs better with the asynchronous design of The Server Framework.

In addition they want us to build them a custom CLR Hosting solution within their server so that their games can be written in managed code but the networking layer can leverage the power of C++ for their reliable UDP layer.