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This page provides an overview of some of the technologies we have used in various projects that we have been involved in, either directly or indirectly.

Titanium Appcelerator

Titanium Appcelerator is a platform for developing mobile and desktop applications using web technologies. On mobile it currently supports developing for iPhone,iPad, Android,Blackberry and Mobile Web applications and for the desktop it can deploy standalone applications for Mac, Windows, and Linux from any of those platforms.

For more information take a look at the Appcelerator site.

Microsoft .NET

The .NET Framework is a software framework for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library, and it supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages). The .NET library is available to all the programming languages that .NET supports.

XAMPP

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. It is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start. It is completely self contain and it runs within its own set of directories. Currently there are four XAMPP distributions, Linux, Windows, MAC and Solaris.

For more information and to download a version of XAMPP check out the Apache Friends site.

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform that powers millions of websites and applications. Built using PHP it has thousands of people work together to continuously improve Drupal, modules, themes and distributions. To quote the Drupal site itself:

"Drupal is a free software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of sites."

PHP

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

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